Senior Gardener for Private Estate
Location | Near Banbury, Oxfordshire, OX17
Salary | Up to £40,000
Overview
Our client is looking for a Senior Gardener to join their small team responsible for sixteen acres of beautiful gardens and wider grounds of an organically certified, private estate in North Oxfordshire.
A recent change of ownership has brought impetus for new direction, renovation, and redesign across the estate, with new landscape designs led by a very well regarded creative and innovative studio. It is an exciting time to join the estate at a formative stage of the gardens development.
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 providing structure.
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.
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