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Landscape Gardening

Designing, installing, and maintaining gardens and landscaped areas in private and public spaces.

Why is this skill important?

The key role for a landscape gardener is to design, install, and maintain gardens and landscaped areas. The landscape gardener will need to meet with clients to discuss their proposed projects, provide advice and guidance on the practicalities of the project, and carefully interpret the client’s wishes.

Projects can be varied and incorporate private and public gardens, parks, public open spaces, sports, and recreation venues, playgrounds, and other landscaped areas. The landscape gardener must be able to develop innovative schemes that meet the needs of clients and comply with planning regulations, while retaining a vision of how the finished project will fit into the overall area and how garden spaces interact with urban environments.

The landscape gardener may be involved at all stages of a project from the initial consultation and design, throughout the installation process, project managing and supervising the installation team, to providing advice and guidance on on-going maintenance and development as the garden grows and matures.

A detailed knowledge of both hard and soft landscaping is required, including knowledge of plants and trees in order to produce and implement a balanced plan that takes account of the area’s advantages and limitations relating to soil type and structure, geography, climatic conditions, and planned use. Knowledge and skills relating to hard landscaping and construction are also essential. Related skills such as electrical installation, plumbing, and irrigation systems are also needed to produce an overall project that is sustainable and has longevity.

A wide range of plants, natural recourses, and other materials are used by the landscape gardener. They must therefore be aware of the impact of such materials on the environment, both in terms of sustainability of manufacture, logistics, and also the impact of landscaping a natural environment and its wildlife.

Gardens and landscaped areas enhance the quality of life for millions of people across the world by providing beautiful areas for recreation and relaxation, open spaces in dense urban environments, appropriate spaces for people of all ages and abilities, and facilities that support community activity and cohesion.

For the landscape gardener there are global opportunities to be involved solving environmental problems and in revitalizing existing established habitations.

Location

Tallinn, Estonia

24–27 October 2022

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Results

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Rank	Medal	Result	Competitor	Country/Region
1.	Gold	765	Marc Baumberger Fabian Baumann	Switzerland
2.	Silver	733	Taichi Nakano Chinari Uratsuji	Japan
3.	Bronze	730	Peter Bokor Peter Hutter	Hungary
4.	Medallion for Excellence	711	Erik Stanke Phil-Elias Kornmacher	Germany
5.	Medallion for Excellence	707	Julian Erharter Christoph Schipflinger	Austria
6.	Medallion for Excellence	704	Jacob Pizzini Tobias Hofer	South Tyrol, Italy
7.	Medallion for Excellence	702	BO-RUI HUANG YI-HSUAN TSENG	Chinese Taipei
8.	Medallion for Excellence	700	Jorn Houdijk Nathan den Besten	Netherlands
8.	Medallion for Excellence	700	Duban Ferley Esteban Mogollón Yenifer Tatiana Jimenez Zuleta	Colombia
10.		696	Valentin SERVAIS Nicolas Piette	Belgium
11.		690	Kerrian BLAISE Louis LECLER	France
12.		670	Élisabeth Simoneau Mattéo Bérubé	Canada
13.		663	Hermanni Huuskonen Niklas Lappalainen	Finland
14.		657	Pontus Larsson Charlie Fernryd	Sweden
15.		644	Kerly Väinsar Siim-Robin Noorem	Estonia
16.		619	David MUÑOZ Beatriz HONTORIA	Spain