Core Gardener

Job Description

Seeking Core Gardener to support the garden supervisory staff and the garden manager in maintaining Juniper Level
Botanic Garden collections’ integrity and high-quality maintenance standards. This is accomplished by assisting in timely, accurate, and thorough weeding, mulching, cutting back, deadheading, and other maintenance duties; as well as working with seasonal garden staff to maintain and update garden areas.

About Us

Seeking Core Gardener to support the garden supervisory staff and the garden manager in maintaining Juniper Level
Botanic Garden collections’ integrity and high-quality maintenance standards. This is accomplished by assisting in timely, accurate, and thorough weeding, mulching, cutting back, deadheading, and other maintenance duties; as well as working with seasonal garden staff to maintain and update garden areas.

We are Plant Delights Nursery/Juniper Level Botanic Garden, a perennial plant nursery established in Raleigh in 1986, offering unique, rare, well grown, and properly named perennials to passionate gardeners around the world. Despite being best known as a nursery, we actually exist for our work as a private 28-acre botanical garden and plant research facility focusing on ex-situ plant conservation, plant exploration, breeding, and making plants available via propagation. We are a family-owned company with a mission to support research, education and the exploration of plants through the sales of unique perennial plants.

Our nursery and garden provide an opportunity to work indoors and outdoors year-round, so we have a casual dress code, a diverse staff, and a friendly working environment.

Duties & Responsibilities

Duties:
Garden Maintenance Support
• Perform horticultural maintenance, including weeding, raking, watering, fertilizing, and mulching
• Identify plants
• Assist with installing new plants in the Garden
• Collect plant material for propagation
• Assist with grounds maintenance, including creating and repairing new planting beds, grading, and construction projects
• Assist in field trials and propagation when needed
• Repair irrigationden
• Operate machinery, including hand-tools, golf carts, and tractors
• Help with Open House staffing, as needed
• Other duties with garden staff as assigned

Curatorial Support
• Assist garden manager and plant records supervisor with curation tasks, including labeling, planting, nursery digs, and plant identification
• Other duties with garden staff as assigned

Does this appeal to you? Are you physically durable, able to lift 50lbs, have a tolerance for a wide range of outdoor weather (including summer heat), have a good work ethic, a friendly personality, and are able to work well with others? Do you pay attention to detail while working at a fast pace, exhibit critical thinking skills, and can think through complex processes? Are you available to commit to 40 hours a week? Then we want to hear from you!

Education and Experience

Qualifications:
• Driver license preferred
• Horticulture degree preferred

Additional Information

Compensation: $14/hour

Employee Classification: Permanent full-time (non-exempt)

Benefits:
• Health, dental and vision insurance
• Life insurance
• Company-matching simple IRA
• Paid public holidays
• PTO and vacation days

Standard Business Hours: Monday – Friday 8 am – 5 pm

Application Instructions

Send resume with work history to jobs@plantdelights.com