Gardener
- Employer
- Tom Stuart-Smith Ltd
- Location
- The Barn, Serge Hill, Bedmond, Hertfordshire
- Salary
- Salary range 25-27k
- Closing date
- 10 Jan 2019
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- Contract Type
- Contract
- Hours
- Full Time
- Function
- Gardening Jobs
- Sector
- Groundskeeping & Maintenance, Growing
Job Details
Motivated full-time gardener to work alongside existing gardener and as part-time help in an established garden belonging to Sue and Tom Stuart-Smith that regularly opens to visitors. Work will include outreach work with local community and assistance with development of significant community project. Accommodation not available.
The garden at the Barn is the private garden of Sue and Tom Stuart-Smith. It covers about 5 acres and is in a state of constant refinement and development. The successful candidate replaces a part time seasonal gardener. The role of the new candidate will be:
- to work with the existing full-time gardener Brian Maslin, and part-time seasonal help to raise the overall standard in the garden,
- to develop a project with a remarkable local mental health charity to grow plants commercially on site for sale through garden openings and through commercial nurseries,
- to work with Tom and Sue and Brian on community outreach projects - the first of these proposed for spring 2019 is the creation of a sensory garden at the local primary school.
Tom is currently trying to get planning permission for the Orchard Project. This is a project to move his design studio to land adjacent to the barn and establish a community garden here and an experimental garden curated by the 14 staff in the design practice and anyone else who wants to get involved. It is envisaged that the successful candidate would have a significant role in managing this project. But this cannot be guaranteed as planning permission is by no means certain. Please read more about this project on our website: http://www.tomstuartsmith.co.uk/projects/the-orchard-studio/the-orchard
The candidate needs to have a good general horticultural knowledge and an interest in plants and ecological methods of gardening. They need good communications and collaborative skills, and a "can do" attitude.
Please note this position offers:
- 28 days holiday inclusive bank holidays.
- Salary range 25-27k.
If you are interested in the position, please send a CV and cover letter to: ruth.v@tomstuartsmith.co.uk
Closing date: Thursday 10th January 2019.
Successful applicants will be invited for an interview at the Barn in mid-January.
Please note: unfortunately we may not be able to respond to all the applications, if you have not been contacted by the end of January please consider your application as unsuccessful.
Company
Tom Stuart-Smith Ltd is a landscape design practice with an international reputation for making gardens that combine naturalism and modernity. The practice was established in 1998. Work since has ranged from large gardens and parks open to the public, to smaller private gardens. Tom Stuart-Smith Ltd has also designed a number of gardens for the Chelsea Flower Show. Eight of these have been awarded gold medals, and three have won ‘Best in Show’. Most projects are located in the UK and Europe, with a few undertaken further afield. Despite the scale and complexity of our work we remain a medium-sized practice, with fourteen landscape architects and designers at our office in London a well as three overseas consultants working under the direction of Tom Stuart-Smith, who is closely involved with each project.
Our philosophy
We seek to create landscapes that offer a rich and multi-layered experience - places with an emotional depth that derives from the ideas behind their design. Juxtaposition and contrast is a theme that runs through much of our work: between simplicity and complexity; the modern and the romantic; between subtle intervention and decisive statement. Our work has a richness of form and texture which belies the economy of means by which this is achieved.
We look to forge connections between people and place. We bring an analytical design approach together with a detailed understanding of the nature of a place, and the wishes of our clients.
We follow an ethic of sustainability and seek to increase the ecological diversity and richness of any landscape in which we work. We use local materials wherever we can and select plants fitted to their surroundings, which will endure over time.
We are particularly interested in planting schemes inspired by plant communities as they occur in natural and semi-natural landscapes.
As important as these principles, is the idea of the garden as a place that quietly articulates emotions and ideas. The designer's role is to set the scene without imposing a story. A garden should not bind its inhabitants to a narrow vision. Rather we want to make it a place of imaginative possibility.
- Website
- http://www.tomstuartsmith.co.uk/
- Telephone
- 020 7253 2100
- Location
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Landscape Design
90-93 Cowcross St
Greenhill House
London
EC1M 6BF
United Kingdom
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