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Senior Gardener Job

  • Sector: Private Households & Estates
  • Function: Gardener
  • Contact: Bianca De Freitas
  • Contact Phone: +442072339950
  • Start Date: Flexible for the right person
  • Location: Banbury
  • Salary: £30,000 - £40,000 GPA Depending on experinece
  • Job Ref: 115719
  • Contact Email: bianca@greycoatlumleys.co.uk

Live Out Senior Gardener job, Near Banbury, Oxfordshire

A client of ours is offering an exciting opportunity for a senior gardener to join their small team looking after the beautiful gardens of an organically certified, private estate in North Oxfordshire. The client is seeking an outstanding, passionate, experienced and skilled gardener who will thrive in a rich and diverse horticultural environment.

There are 16 acres of estate gardens and wider grounds that surround the 16th century manor house.

Duties:

  • Maintaining Ornamental gardens

  • Orchard maintenance

  • Walled garden and glasshouse duties

  • Woking in the cutting gardens

  • Gravel garden and Nuttery garden care

  • Maintaining Wildflower meadows, pond and wetland

  • Care of flowering tree and shrub walk

  • Formal hedging

  • Formal lawns

  • Topiary

The ideal candidate will also have a great work ethic and will work tidily and professionally at all times. Someone with a positive outlook who enjoys working with others, and who can take direction from the Head Gardener.

Previous experience in organic gardening techniques would be a plus but is not essential.  

Essential Skills

  • Minimum of three years in a similar level role – private or historic estate.

  • Excellent and demonstrable plant knowledge.

  • High level border work, working with attention to detail and craft in border maintenance work. 

  • Excellent pruning skills - competency in this area with a range of perennial plants, shrubs and climbers.

  • Demonstrable experience in the routine annual maintenance of hedges; lawns; areas of hard-landscaping; assistance with the care of the wildflower meadows

  • Experience using power tools for garden maintenance, including hedge-trimming and strimming.

  • Experience in productive gardening: vegetable & soft fruit production

Desired Skills

  • Experience in producing organic cut flowers a plus, including picking and conditioning flowers (training can be given in this area).

  • Management skills - on occasion you will be required to work with freelance gardeners at busy times of the year

  • You will ideally have at least a level 3 horticultural qualification in addition to the required professional experience. 

Days & Hours: Monday to Friday 8am – 4.30pm, flexibility will be required on occasion

Salary: £30k – 40k GPA depending on experience.

Start Date: Flexible for the right person

Job Reference: 115719

Consultant responsible: Bianca De Freitas

To apply please send CV to bianca@greycoatlumleys.co.uk