Horticulturists are essential professionals in gardening and urban landscaping and play a very important role in enhancing the country's standard of living.

A horticulturist's main job is to maintain flowers through a variety of specialist techniques such as soil cultivation, pruning and grafting, as well as weeding and shaping, which requires a high level of personal expertise.

For a qualified horticulturist, it is essential to be familiar with and skilled in the use of horticultural tools, each of which has its own significance.

So as to maximise the use of flower material and to make the horticultural process twice as effective.

For professional gardeners, there is always a "one knife fits all", and many flower lovers have always been troubled by the question of whether to use a garden knife or garden scissors for flower arranging.

Gardening knives are different from ordinary fruit knives and household knives, and there is a clear difference between the two.

Gardening knives have a single-sided open edge, whereas ordinary knives have a double-sided open edge.

Gardening knives have a pointed head, whereas ordinary knives have a curved edge, and gardening curved knives have a straight and curved edge.

Next we describe the most basic gardening scissors.

Flower arranging scissors: with a sickle-shaped blade on the head, they have more cutting points when cutting flower material, especially herbaceous flowers are more obvious, plus they look cooler.

Straight cutters for flower arranging: the same function as the curved cutters, except they are not as cool, so you can choose your cutters according to your personal habits. (All gardening knives are single-edged, with one side open).

Wire shears: for handling wire, light and easy to use, we recommend the German lightweight version.

Branch shears: mainly used to handle woody plants, one-way pressure cutting shears.

Hanamichi scissors: older scissors, maintaining the classical form, not adding too much to the design of the human body mechanics.

In addition this tool is relatively heavy, so it is very slow to use, the necessary to repair the flower path cool god scissors.

Multi-functional scissors: commonly used scissors, you can choose from scissors with a wire groove at the cross, with the additional function of cutting wire.

Because they are mostly contemporary in design, they have particularly user-friendly details in terms of functionality and mechanics.

For those who prefer a more mechanical feel, choose German-made, or for those seeking efficiency and a more compact hand size, choose Japanese.

Paper scissors: all tools need their own special category of use, and paper scissors are a must, mainly for paper, ribbons, silk, etc. (You must not cut anything with glue, as this will cause the scissors to become glued and no longer sharp.

The job of a gardener.

1. Tilling, resting and improving the soil of flower garden beds.

2. Construct, maintain and manage greenhouses, flower houses and other horticultural facilities.

3. Breed flowers, propagate good seeds, and select and rejuvenate them.

4. Sowing, raising seedlings, potting, pruning and grafting

5. Field management such as fertilization, watering, weeding, potting, pruning, shaping, framing, and bonsai production.

6. Collecting seedlings from seeds.

7. Maintaining tools.

Requirements for the post of Horticulturist.

1. Hard-working, honest and diligent, with relevant work experience in landscape maintenance preferred.

2. Ability to obey arrangements, strong sense of work responsibility, proactive and caring.