Gardener

What is a Gardener?

A "Gardener"volunteer helps the garden team manage the daily maintenance and conservation of the 17 acres of stunning gardens, using recognised best practice 365 days a year. We will teach you all you need to know and support your development and skill base through training and mentoring.

What’s in it for you?

• Enjoy being outside and being part of a great group of over 100 like minded volunteers.
• Learn and develop your gardening skills to which ever level suits you.
• Get involved in any number of ways from daily maintenance to helping to manage your own area of the garden.
• We have very flexible working hours/days to fit in with your lifestyle.
• Feel a great sense of involvement and pride as you help us to conserve and develop our garden for all to enjoy.

What’s involved?

• All aspects of garden maintenance and conservation; hoeing , edging , weeding, machine use, planting of Spring and Summer bedding, watering, propagation, spraying, clearance, maintaining flower beds.
• We have major bedding displays, an Orangery, Rose garden, mixed borders, herbaceous borders, several lawns, hedges, shrub borders, a stream garden, paths and a Nursery/greenhouse area.
• Work is done both individually and in groups depending on the task.
• Great Communication with our visitors whilst working within the Trusts own Values and Behaviours and Service promise.
• Careful management of the Trusts equipment.
• Working within its Health and Safety policy at all times.

This role will suit you if you…
enjoy working outside whatever the weather, who are generally fit and have a good work ethic. If you like to work either in a group or on your own and although we don’t look for prior knowledge of gardening the more you have the more you will get out of your time here.

Extra information

Your place
Lyme Gardens
Time commitment
Once a week/fortnightly for at least four hours on each visit any day of the week between the hours of 10.00am – 5.00pm

Training/Expenses

Informal in-house training will be provided, as well as mentoring by the Gardeners and experienced volunteers. Out-of-pocket travel costs between home and volunteering place will be refunded, and any other reasonable expenses agreed in advance.