Live out Head Gardener Job

  • Sector: Private Households & Estates
  • Function: Head Gardener
  • Contact: Anisa Sykes Lane
  • Contact Phone: +442072339950
  • Start Date: As and when right candidate is found
  • Location: Berkshire
  • Salary: £45,000 GPA
  • Job Ref: 238065
  • Contact Email: anisa@greycoatlumleys.co.uk

Live out Gardener in Berkshire near Reading 

This large family estate is looking for a creative, dynamic and proactive Head Gardener to come on board. 

Other staff are employed such as a maintenance person, animal keepers and a trainee gardener to support the new Head Gardener and the principal. 

The principal is very hands on about running their estate and this is their permanent residence. 

Although they work with landscape designers, they welcome ideas and creative inputs as they would enjoy a collaborative working relationship and working together to get this garden to reach its full potential: 

Duties include: 

  • Planting, transplanting, fertilising, pruning, spraying, weeding, watering & managing pests & diseases

  • Managing the Green house

  • Some animal care 

  • Maintenance of garden structures, equipment & supplies; safe use of machinery 

  • General groundskeeping: mowing, mulching, strimming, raking & upkeep of paths & driveways

Start:  As and when the right person is found

Working week: Monday to Friday, 40 hour week, some flexibility at weekends.

Driving: essential

Salary: £45,000 but negotiable and dependent on experience 

Consultant to contact: Anisa Sykes Lane

Job ID: 238065 

If you would like to apply but are not already registered, please send your CV to jessica@greycoatlumleys.co.uk for review