Amenity (parks and gardens)
Keen to create vibrant community spaces and grow your team at the same time? Amenity horticulture is about creating vibrant spaces we can all enjoy — growing, establishing, and managing gardens and public spaces.
Our programmes will provide the skills and knowledge to build and maintain stunning gardens and public spaces, on any scale. Even in our Regional Council parks!
Job overview
If you love being outdoors and have a passion for garden maintenance and plant knowledge, you couldn’t find a more fulfilling career. No experience is no problem. You’ll start as a garden assistant, working in a team to help create and maintain beautiful spaces.
Skills and experience
- Physically fit and enjoy the satisfaction of a hard day’s work
- A team player with excellent communication skills
- Skills with tools and machinery an advantage
- Reliable
- Full driver’s licence
- Eager to learn and train while you work
- Able and eligible to work in New Zealand
- Growsafe certificate desirable
News from our learners and employers
An Interim Establishment Board has been appointed to guide the organisation as it establishes an industry-owned Private Training Establishment (PTE).
Growing healthy plants for ecological restoration and landscaping projects is all in a day’s work for Signature Plants Ltd. The Auckland-based business are firm believers in the power of education and upskilling staff with training through Primary ITO.
Fresh off a flight from the United States, Primary ITO graduate Meg Spittal took out the title of 2026 Young Amenity Horticulturalist of the Year in May.
New Zealand’s future farmers, fencers, contractors and rural workers are already learning the ropes not from behind desks, but out in paddocks, yards and woolsheds across Horowhenua and Kāpiti.
Photo & Article Credit: Frankie Webb, Horowhenua Chronicle
Photo & Article Credit: Frankie Webb, Horowhenua Chronicle