Head Gardener

Job/Position: Head Gardener
Hours: 40
No. of positions available: 1
Location: Arduaine Garden

Arduaine is looking for a capable, motivated, and knowledgeable Head Gardener to lead its
small, dedicated team of gardeners and volunteers in an exciting period of redevelopment and
restoration for this garden and nationally important plant collection.

This is a particularly important and exciting period for the property as we look to both
conserve and develop the garden and its collection further over the coming years. The team are
seeking a suitably skilled and motivated individual to join us on that journey. Working closely
with the Operations Manager and Gardens and Design Landscape Manager for the South & West
region, the post holder will play a key role in moving the gardens forward.

Arduaine Garden was established in 1898 by Ethel and James Arthur Campbell and is renowned for
its nationally important collection of Rhododendron species, many of which were collected at
the beginning of the last century. Arduaine grows a broad range of plants from all around the
world including many tender plants which thrive in the garden’s mild climate, influenced by
warm Atlantic currents. The garden covers 20 acres, divided into two main areas, a semi formal
garden of shrub beds, mixed borders, lawns and ponds, and an informal woodland garden.

In 1971 the garden was acquired by nurserymen, Edmund and Harry Wright. The brothers greatly
improved the infrastructure of the garden and added to the existing Rhododendron collection
before donating the garden to the National Trust for Scotland in 1992. The garden regularly
attracts 15000 visitors a year.