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Someone Who Cares For Plants

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.

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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.

  • [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.
  • Ross Howard
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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.

Ross Howard
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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]
Horticulturist is widely used in N. America.

Don Phillipson
Carlsbad Springs (Ottawa, Canada)
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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]
In California: "Noisy Mexican Leaf-Blowing ."

Reinhold (Rey) Aman
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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]In California: "Noisy Mexican Leaf-Blowing ."[/nq]
In the rest of the US, they are horticulturalists.

Gary
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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]In California: "Noisy Mexican Leaf-Blowing ."[/nq]
Naah, our Noisy Leaf-Blowing is Vietnamese.
Skitt (in Hayward, California)
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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]Phytomaintenance engineer.[/nq]
Pot husband (colloq.)
-skipka
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[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
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[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?
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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]
Gardener. Tough one.

Charles Riggs
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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

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