In The Sims 4, what is the name of the gardening career branch?

In The Sims 4, the gardening career branch is called Botanist.

A Sim who joins the Gardener career reaches the branching point at career level 4. At that stage, the player chooses between Botanist and Floral Designer. Botanist is the plant-science-focused path, while Floral Designer emphasizes flower arranging.

The other options are plausible-sounding but are not the official branch names. Horticulturist is a real-world term for someone who cultivates and studies plants, Green Thumb is associated with gardening ability and in-game wording, and Florist describes a flower-related occupation. The actual alternative branch in The Sims 4 is Floral Designer, not Florist.

The Botanist path rewards Sims who develop Gardening and Logic. Gardening is a 10-level base-game skill, and improving it helps Sims meet promotion requirements and work more effectively with plants. The Sims 4 launched in 2014 and uses careers as progression systems in which skills influence job advancement.