About Us

Who we are

• We bring together professionals – gardeners, landscapers, officials of state administration and local government, green-space managers, landscape architects, arborists, academics and representatives of associations, professional schools and contracting firms (the gardening, landscaping and landscape-architecture professions in the broader sense).
• We are celebrating 35 years since our founding in 1990 and have around 650 members.
• Sources of income: membership fees, sponsors and partners, occasional grants, fees for seminars, webinars and conferences, and volunteer work.
• We bring together 4 professional sections – the Tree Care Section ISA, the Czech Association for Landscape Architecture, the Green Space Management Section and the Czech Perennial Growers' Association.
• We have a stable office with 4 permanent staff.
• We provide professional education for our members and the wider professional public, including courses accredited by the Czech Ministry of the Interior.
• We publish, to a professional standard, the magazine Zahrada Park Krajina (Garden Park Landscape).
• The main benefit of membership is reduced fees for all SZKT events, the Zahrada Park Krajina magazine and access to exclusive members-only events.
• We are the professional guarantor of the Green Ribbon award in the Village of the Year competition and the organiser of the follow-up Green Ribbon of the Czech Republic competition.
• Since 2002 we have co-organised the international Entente Florale Europe competition (European Flowering Towns).