What title describes somebody who has the profession of taking care of plants? For example, a gentleman visits our office once a week, prunes dead leaves, and waters as necessary. The only word my cubicle-mate could find was "arborist", but I feel that person cares specifically for trees.
Thanks, Jeff C.
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[nq:1]What title describes somebody who has the profession of taking care of plants? For example, a gentleman visits our office ... as necessary.
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[nq:1]What title describes somebody who has the profession of taking care of plants?
For example, a gentleman visits our office ...
as necessary.
[/nq] Phytomaintenance engineer.
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[nq:1]What title describes somebody who has the profession of taking care of plants? For example, a gentleman visits our office ... as necessary. The only word my cubicle-mate could find was "arborist", but I feel that person cares specifically for trees.[/nq] Phytomaintenance engineer.
[nq:2]What title describes somebody who has the profession of taking ... "arborist", but I feel that person cares specifically for trees.[/nq] Horticulturist is widely used in N. America.
[nq:1]What title describes somebody who has the profession of taking care of plants? For example, a gentleman visits our office ... as necessary. The only word my cubicle-mate could find was "arborist", but I feel that person cares specifically for trees.[/nq] In California: "Noisy Mexican Leaf-Blowing ."
[nq:2]What title describes somebody who has the profession of taking ... "arborist", but I feel that person cares specifically for trees.[/nq] [nq:1]In California: "Noisy Mexican Leaf-Blowing ."[/nq] In the rest of the US, they are horticulturalists.
[nq:2]What title describes somebody who has the profession of taking ... "arborist", but I feel that person cares specifically for trees.[/nq] [nq:1]In California: "Noisy Mexican Leaf-Blowing ."[/nq] Naah, our Noisy Leaf-Blowing is Vietnamese. Skitt (in Hayward, California) www.geocities.com/opus731/
[nq:2]What title describes somebody who has the profession of taking ... "arborist", but I feel that person cares specifically for trees.[/nq] [nq:1]Phytomaintenance engineer.[/nq] Pot husband (colloq.) -skipka
[nq:1]Phytomaintenance engineer.[/nq] Eh, you're pushing your luck there... these can't be much more than minimum-wage jobs (!); [nq:1]Horticulturist is widely used in N. America.[/nq] Maybe... When i think of a horticulturist though it brings to mind, well, somebody who clones orchids or looks for new pharmaceuticals from rare native plants. We're not talking about somebody with a deg
[nq:2]Phytomaintenance engineer.[/nq] [nq:1]Eh, you're pushing your luck there... these can't be much more than minimum-wage jobs (!);[/nq] That might be Ross's point. How about 'Workplace Ecotherapist', then? [nq:2]Pot husband (colloq.)[/nq] [nq:1]Hmm, i like that one, now we're getting closer. Has some peculiar entendres :-) Keep trying...[/nq] Plant valet? Vegetenabler?
[nq:1]What title describes somebody who has the profession of taking care of plants? For example, a gentleman visits our office ... as necessary. The only word my cubicle-mate could find was "arborist", but I feel that person cares specifically for trees.[/nq] Gardener. Tough one.
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[nq:2]What title describes somebody who has the profession of taking ... "arborist", but I feel that person cares specifically for trees.[/nq] [nq:1]Gardener. Tough one.[/nq] I don't think of the woman who comes into my office to water the potted plant as a "gardener". Informally, she's the "plant lady"(1), but I'm not sure what her official title is. A gardner seems to need outdoor plants