On behalf of their client, Private Household Recruitment Consultant, Cora Partners are looking for an experienced Senior Gardener, with a minimum of three years in a similar level role at a Historic or Private Estate to join the gardening team to manage a 16 acre garden and grounds in North Oxfordshire. Level 3 horticultural qualification is required, in addition to the professional experience.
The gardens comprise of ornamental gardens, an orchard, a productive walled garden and glasshouse, cutting gardens, gravel garden, nuttery, wildflower meadows, pond and wetland, flowering tree and shrub walk – the overall character is naturalistic alongside formal hedging, lawns and topiary.
The estate has recently changed ownership, which has brought on the impetus for new direction, renovation, and redesign across the estate, with new landscape designs led by a regarded design studio. An exciting time to join the estate at a formative stage of the garden’s development.
The estate is managed according to organic principles and the existing gardeners share the owners’ passion for regenerative methods of managing landscape, promoting biodiversity and exploring and developing methods to garden with sensitivity to nature and the wider landscape, whilst simultaneously ensuring that the ornamental gardens are kept to the highest standard.
Job Details
* Contract: Full Time (Monday – Friday, 08:00 – 16:30)
* Salary: Up to £40,000, depending on experience
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