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Nursery Managers Make Great Salaries Working With Plants All Day

Are you the type of person who wishes you could spend all day in your garden? Well, if you become a Nursery Manager, you could do the next best thing. As a nursery manager, you'd spend the majority of your day surrounded by plants, trees, shrubs and flowers.

Some of the duties of a nursery manager include stocking the nursery with whatever supplies are needed, overseeing the cultivation and care of plants, giving advice to customers on plant care, fertilizers, and other areas of concern, visiting landscaping projects and making suggestions on the best varieties of shrubbery, trees and flowers that would be beneficial to the customer in terms of beauty as well as maintenance, and supervising contractors and other workers. Managing a nursery includes other duties as well, such as hiring and firing workers, and training staff, as well as taking care of the accounts, or in other words, making sure the nursery is making money.

It's a big responsibility, but one that someone who loves working with plants is sure to love. Most nursery managers make pretty decent money too. The average salary in the U. S. for a nursery manager is more than $53,000. That's not bad for someone who spends all day with a bunch of trees and shrubs. Of course it's not all fun and games and the responsibilities are great, but overall it's a good profession to be in.

The background requirements of a nursery manager aren't too stiff. Usually a bachelor's degree with a major in horticulture, botany, or some related field is a plus, although on occasion someone who started young in the business and has years of experience has been known to rise to manager status without any education higher than high school. Mainly what is needed is the knowledge of plant care as well as knowledge of plant diseases and how to treat them, and even possibly some knowledge of the development of new species. A nursery manager who is dedicated to his or her job will more than likely spend quite a bit of time reading up on new techniques and new varieties of plants. Dedication to the job is probably the most important quality a nursery manager can have and usually trumps higher education. A course in business administration, however, will be beneficial in order to care for the financial end of the business.

The nursery and horticulture industry has grown somewhat over the past few years, due to environmental concerns over loss of rain forests and other oxygen sources across the globe. One area that is of particular concern to many people is the idea of growing plants in an organic type setting. Because on organic farms, chemical fertilizers are not used because it leaves chemical residue on the plants, which people then ingest, some nurseries are opting to go 'natural' as well, mostly in order to get on board with the growing movement of organic growing. Even though shrubs, flowers and plants grown in nurseries aren't usually ingested, many nursery managers find that customers are very receptive to the idea of purchasing plants for their yard and landscaping projects that have been grown in an organic-type setting.

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