Job Description
Under direction of Head Gardener working primarily at Hill of Tarvit helping to enhance the visitor enjoyment of the environment around the mansion house. There will be occasional joining up with the garden team at Kellie Castle, and Balmerino Abbey to help undertake ongoing work there.
KEY RESPONSIBILITIES AND ACCOUNTABILITIES
Assisting with horticultural duties to deliver the optimum aesthetic standards expected with the safety and enjoyment of all who use the site paramount. Activities include:
Grass cutting, strimming, hedge-cutting and the raking up or collections afterwards.
Cutting of lawn edges.
Hand weeding of borders.
Pruning wall plants, those in borders and elsewhere.
Planting out (under direction of Head Gardener.)
Application of mulches.
Assisting with general property maintenance. Activities include:
Litter picking.
Maintaining paths
Use of bonfire to dispose of unhealthy plant material.
Assisting as required with the general enjoyment of the walled garden and surrounding woodland by:
Responding to general visitor enquiries.
Answering basic horticultural enquiries from visitors.
Assisting at events held across the Fife properties
Vegetable production
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