A person whose hobby or job is growing flowers in a garden is called a gardener. If you want homegrown flowers and veggies, get to know a gardener.
If you grow vegetables professionally, you're called a farmer, but if you design, tend, or care for a flower garden, you're a gardener. Planting anything on a small scale, in your own backyard, also makes you a gardener. The word gardener was a common last name starting in the 13th century, from the Old French jardineor, and the Old North French gardin, "kitchen garden or orchard."
Definitions of gardener
noun
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- synonyms:nurseryman
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- transplanter
a gardener who moves plants to new locations
- type of:
- horticulturist, plantsman
an expert in the science of cultivating plants (fruit or flowers or vegetables or ornamental plants)
- transplanter
noun
someone employed to work in a garden
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- groundkeeper, groundskeeper, groundsman
someone who maintains the grounds (of an estate or park or athletic field)
- hedger
a gardener who takes care of and trims hedges
- type of:
- employee
a worker who is hired to perform a job
- groundkeeper, groundskeeper, groundsman
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