Overview
Interim/Locum Gardener, West Cork — Greycoat Lumley's client seeks an experienced gardener for their private 7 acre garden in West Cork, a place of great wildness and abundance, requiring an all-round gardener.
Responsibilities
Manage a flower garden in a small walled garden
Maintain extensive wisteria
Care for a river garden planted with Gunnera, Taxodium and bamboos
Oversee several ponds with substantial marginal planting
Develop and maintain a Charles Jencks-style terraced hill
Manage a hectare of kitchen garden with commercial-scale polytunnels growing asparagus, melons and other crops
Team and Location
There is a Groundsman and a resident Housekeeper.
The nearest village is 1 mile away and a good market town is 10 miles away.
A car is available if needed.
A Garden Tour company will be visiting the garden in July.
Accommodation
Newly converted Granary is provided on site.
Salary
To be agreed.
Start
ASAP / flexible.
Period
3-6 month+ contract.
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