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

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.

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 irrigation
• 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: $15/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