Landscape maintenance (or groundkeeping ) is the art and call keeps the landscape healthy, clean, safe and attractive, usually in parks, lawns, parks, institutional or plantation settings. Using tools, supplies, knowledge, physical exertion and skills, landowners can plan or carry out annual cultivation and harvesting, periodic weeding and fertilizing, other gardening, garden care, snow removal, driveways and road maintenance, pruning, topiary, lighting , fences, pool treatment, runoff drainage, and irrigation, and other work to protect and improve topsoil, plants, and garden accessories.
Ground-keepers can also deal with local animals (including birds, rodents, reptiles, insects, and pets or pets), and create the means to attract or repel them, as desired or required. Gardens can also be designed to include exotic animals, such as koi ponds. In larger plantations, park keepers may be responsible for providing and maintaining habitat for wild animals.
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Industrial landscape maintenance
Some private research firms estimate that landscape maintenance is a $ 77 billion industry in North America, with nearly 1 million employees working for over 400,000 businesses in February 2016.
The US Bureau of Labor Statistics estimated in May 2015 that the statistics group 37-3011 "Landscape and Land Maintenance Worker" amounted to 895,600 with an average annual wage of $ 25,030. BLS says of this group: "Workers typically perform various tasks, which may include a combination of the following: ground placement, cutting, pruning, planting, watering, fertilizing, excavation, rakeing, sprinkler installation and segmental installation of mortar wall unit pairs brick ".
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See also
- Gardening
- Landlord
- Landscape architecture
- List of pets
- List of tamed plants
- Property manager
References
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