Glossary
Landscaping Supervisor Terms & Vocabulary
15 essential landscaping supervisor terms with plain-English definitions: the vocabulary you’ll hear in training and on day one.
Key landscaping supervisor vocabulary
These 15 terms come up constantly in landscaping supervisor training, on the job and in interviews. Knowing them helps you follow instructions, document accurately and sound prepared.
- Drainage
- Moving water away from areas.
- Enhancement
- Extra work sold to a client.
- Estimate
- A price for a job.
- Install
- A new landscape project.
- Irrigation audit
- Testing an irrigation system.
- Maintenance contract
- Ongoing service agreement.
- Man-hours
- Labor hours for a job.
- Plant schedule
- A list of plants for a project.
- Productivity rate
- Work completed per hour.
- Punch list
- Final items to complete.
- Quality walk
- An inspection with the client.
- Route
- A crew’s daily schedule of properties.
- Snow operations
- Winter snow removal.
- Tailgate talk
- A short safety meeting.
- Turnover
- Workers leaving.
Practice these terms
Test yourself with the free Landscaping Supervisor practice test: it includes vocabulary questions built from this list. For a complete course, see Landscaping Supervisor training.
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