Overview
Join a small team of skilled gardeners and garden designers and work in public garden spaces. In this gardening role, you will be responsible for maintaining high profile beautiful gardens, historic hardscapes, and well loved environments. You will help create thriving environments in very public settings. This paid position offers an exciting opportunity to apply your gardening skills and grow your knowledge in a supportive and energetic environment.
Duties
- Maintain and enhance garden beds, lawns, and landscape features using hand tools and power tools to ensure healthy growth and aesthetic appeal
- Conduct regular lawn care tasks including mowing, edging, fertilizing, aerating, and weed control to keep outdoor spaces pristine
- Perform landscape maintenance activities such as pruning, trimming, planting new flora, mulching, and soil preparation
- Apply horticultural practices to promote plant health, including pest management and fertilization strategies
- Enhance and maintain spaces that have to look fantastic every weekend.
Qualifications
- Hands-on experience using hand tools such as shovels, pruners, rakes, as well as power tools like trimmers and lawnmowers
- Willingness to learn techniques including fertilizing, bed prep, and weed control
- Ability to work outdoors in various weather conditions while maintaining safety standards
- Strong attention to detail with the ability to follow specific gardening instructions and project plans
- Excellent physical stamina for lifting heavy materials and performing repetitive tasks over extended periods
Pay: $22.00 - $27.00 per hour
Benefits:
- Flexible schedule
- Parental leave
Work Location: In person