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hate people that kick off when they're supposed to be landscapers when they see the green side wether it be planting or cutting.
Advertise as so and make it clear that if hired to be a landscape gardener that it includes doing a few weeks a year, there is plenty of people out there like myself that would take a job doing it. All I will say is make sure your landscapers have a qualification in brickwork and pay them the right rates as its the downside to landscaping and is why most of the time its full of clueless idiots.
Being realistic, anyone that's any good will already be employed so to tempt them, you've got to offer them something worth having....... good wages spring to mind:) As they say, pay peanuts, get monkeys! I reckon its worth paying significantly above average to get someone who could be worth their weight in gold and stay with you.
If you employ someone they should be willing to do whatever you ask them to. A landscaper could well learn new skills from being sent out on maintenance jobs, just as a gardener would learn from spending a few days out with a hard landscaper.
I'd say build this in as a positive element to the job: you'll learn new skills and get wider experience to add to your CV.