Position: Head Gardener Link to Job Posting
Duties: The Department of Horticulture and Landscape Architecture announces a full-time gardener’s position for the Jules Janick Horticulture Garden at Purdue University. Garden tasks include, but are not limited to the following:
Pruning, weeding, fertilizing, mulching, minimal pest control, irrigation management and supplemental watering, coordination with campus grounds staff, designing garden areas, revising and improving the plant collection as required, designing and planning seasonal plant beds, diversifying the plant collection, creating and managing plant signage throughout the garden, ordering and securing plants, supplies, equipment as required, mapping plantings in ArcGIS, collaborating with instructors for requests and needs for plants in the garden to accommodate several horticulture classes and laboratories, and coordinating with extension staff for potential outreach activities utilizing the garden. Candidate will be expected to recruit, coordinate, and supervise student workers and outside volunteers such as Master Gardeners.
The successful candidate would be expected to participate in professional enrichment opportunities.
Full or Part Time: This is negotiable along with tasks related to teaching that are included in the official job posting. Please include a cover letter in your application that outlines your preference.
The Jules Janick Horticulture Garden:
Established in 1982, the Jules Janick Horticulture Garden is one of the most visually appealing landscapes on campus. Located along Marstellar Street, adjacent to the Horticulture Building, the garden is home to hundreds of ornamental plants. In its re-incarnation as the Janick Garden, the plant collection has a strong emphasis on herbaceous perennials, with just enough annuals to provide growing season-long color and woody plants to provide “strong bones.” In its role as a horticultural teaching laboratory, this half acre living classroom maximizes plant diversity and offers learning opportunities for students from many other programs such as botany, plant pathology, entomology, veterinary medicine, and even the visual arts. Different types of soil and many small microclimates provide the garden with an ability to nurture and grow plants otherwise not found in the area. The Janick Garden is open to the public.
