Garden Manager

JOB DESCRIPTION Job title: Garden Manager Location: Fullers Mill Garden, West Stow, Suffolk Accountable to: Commercial Development Director Staff reports: The Gardens team, Visitor Services team Fullers Mill Garden is an enchanting and tranquil waterside and woodland garden, situated on the banks of the River Lark at West Stow in Suffolk. It combines a beautiful site of light dappled woodland with a fabulous collection of rare and unusual shrubs, perennials, lilies and marginal plants, collected over the course of 50 years by the creator of the garden, the late Bernard Tickner MBE. This is an exciting opportunity to lead Fullers Mill Garden into its next chapter as a Perennial garden, maintaining and evolving a beautiful garden with a team of gardeners, volunteers and trainees - to give our garden loving visitors a magical experience on each visit. The garden is currently undergoing a process of proposed investment in its visitor infrastructure. The Garden Manager will be a key member of the project team. Overall purpose 1. Through high standards of garden and landscape management and garden maintenance, ensure that the history, ecology, evolved design and artistic integrity of Fullers Mill and other grounds associated with the site are conserved and presented to an exemplary standard. 2. To recruit, train, manage and develop staff to achieve high standards of garden presentation and visitor satisfaction. 3. To build a culture that makes involvement in the garden ..... full job details .....