Horticulturalist

The Indoor Gardens team is responsible for the care, maintenance, propagation, and presentation of indoor plant collections and horticultural displays, ensuring high standards of plant health, horticultural quality, sustainability, and visitor experience. The role involves practical and technical support in plant establishment, propagation, irrigation, nutrition, greenhouse operations, environmental monitoring, plant health, and Integrated Pest Management (IPM). The position will also support plant inventory and records, display maintenance, pest and disease management, and visitor-engagement activities, while working closely with the Horticulturalist, Botanic Garden Curator, and wider horticulture team.

Key Responsibilities

• Maintain indoor plant collections, displays, and greenhouse/controlled growing environments.
• Perform watering, pruning, repotting, fertilisation, plant replacement, propagation, and general plant maintenance.
• Monitor plant health and identify pests, diseases, nutrient deficiencies, and environmental stress.
• Support and implement Integrated Pest Management (IPM) and appropriate plant-health treatments.
• Monitor temperature, humidity, light, ventilation, irrigation, growing media, and plant nutrition.
• Maintain plant inventories, labels, databases, and horticultural records.
• Support plant propagation using seeds, cuttings, division, and other methods.
• Maintain high horticultural, aesthetic, cleanliness, and visitor-experience standards.
• Support greenhouse operations, indoor display maintenance, and plant collection management.
• Work with horticulture teams, botanists, contractors, and other multidisciplinary teams.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Horticulture, Botany, Plant Sciences, or a related discipline.
• Relevant experience in indoor horticulture, indoor garden management, greenhouse, conservatory, or controlled growing environments.
• Practical experience in plant care, propagation, pruning, repotting, irrigation, fertilisation, and plant maintenance.
• Experience identifying plant pests, diseases, nutrient deficiencies, and environmental stress.
• Knowledge and practical experience with Integrated Pest Management (IPM).
• Experience monitoring temperature, humidity, light, irrigation, ventilation, and growing conditions.
• Experience maintaining plant collections, horticultural displays, plant records, and inventories.
• Strong attention to detail, practical problem-solving, communication, and teamwork skills.
• Experience in a botanic garden, greenhouse, conservatory, nursery, public garden, or similar horticultural facility is preferred.