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Is Horticulture Recruitment facing a crisis

There is no doubt in my mind that the gardening and landscaping industries are starting to experience some tougher trading conditions.

New contracts that are being tendered for are being scrutinised closely in an effort to keep costs to the absolute minimum. The result of this commercial suicide, is a loss in quality and poor conditions for those employees on the ground.

French horticulture student looking for UK work placement - encore

I have had another enquiry from a French Horticultural student who is looking for a UK work placement.

pass on these details to you. There is a PDF with further details available.

Dear Sir/Madam

I am looking for a work placement in the horticultural and landscaping sector for the coming summer and am writing to enquire if I could work in your company.

I am a first-year student at the INH (National Institute of Horticulture) in Angers, France, following a 5-year degree course in horticulture, plant sciences. As an integral part of our course, we have to undertake a practical and manual work placement abroad at the end of our first year. It should last one month at least and could start in the very beginning of July/ end of June.

French Horticulture student seeking work placement in the UK

I had a comment left yesterday by a French horticulture student who is looking for work experience and a four week job placement in the UK this summer.

Her name is Elodie Delwarde and she left all of her details as a comment on Landscape Juice yesterday. I have edited out the personal details for obvious security reasons, but I am happy to accept enquiries to pass on directly to Elodie for her consideration.

If you are interested, please email me philipvoice@gmail.com

All the details, together with Elodie's CV are in the bottom part of this post.

Restoration Gardener for Langley Park - Buckinghamshire

There have been two interesting jobs posted to my Hortiscape Job board.

Buckinghamshire County Council are looking for two Restoration Project Gardeners to work on the 800 year old, Grade II listed, Capability Brown Designed, Langley Park.

Enthusiastic gardener looking for work

If you are looking for a gardener in the London area then you would be wise to give Craig Lee a call because the lad really seems to have some enthusiasm - and I should know, after employing many many people over the years, this can be hard to come by! .

Craig has just advertised himself on Gumtree because he has just gone self employed. He says he does not drive and will need tolls providing at the work location but at present he is only charging £5.00 per hour (seems a bit low Craig but I guess at 17 the overheads are still very low too).

Craig can be contacted on craig-lee-91@hotmail.com or mobile 07930369066.

Greenkeeping job in Berkshire

When I started in Greenkeeping in the late seventies it was one of those transient type jobs and only the head greenkeeper was likely to be qualified; although more often than not they just found themselves in a job, maybe because they worked on a farm previously and knew how to drive a tractor.

At Blackmoor, because it was owned by Lord Selborne, it was often the case of the estate workers moving either from the apple production onto the golf course or vice versa. It was a job and nothing else really to many that passed through.

It was not until the mid to late eighties that becoming a greenkeeper was viewed by the majority as a real secure career move and today it is a real state of the art, scientific, passionate and rewarding job to be in.

Greenkeeping has become so popular that colleges, previously known as agricultural have closed the farming side and turned the farmland and sheds over to greenkeeper training.

One such college is Merrist Wood, Worplesdon near Guildford. When I attended back in the mid eighties the farming side was running down and plans were afoot to create a training golf course.

Hortiscape Jobs board free offer

Yes, you did read it right - Free job advertising - what do you have to lose?

The Horticulture Week Jobs board has gone live and you can visit the site at Horticulturejobs.co.uk.

It is a comprehensive site which offers RSS feeds and email alerts for new jobs posted all for £275.00 for 30 days.

I think that is totally unjustifiable in today's digital age so for an unlimited period I am going to waive all the costs of posting a job to my Hortiscape Job board.

Place your horticulture jobs here

The new Horticulture Week job board has gone live. I also note that there is a whopping £275.00 price tag for just one month.

But the interesting part for me is that Haymarket Publications, the owners of Horticulture Week, have been checking out my job board today.

Horticulture Week to launch horticulturejobs.co.uk

It is often said that imitation is the sincerest form of flattery so it is with a wry smile that I learn from a little birdy that Horticulture Week is launching it's own horticulture job board on the 12th November 2007.

With readership numbers tumbling across the glossy magazines it is no surprise that HW is launching a potentially lucrative recruitment site.

However, with only 9820 readership (taken from the Hortweek site today) I am intrigued to see what prices they are going to charge.

Horticultural publishing job with whopping salary

It seems there is more money to be made in horticulture than if you actually get your hands dirty as a day job.

A London publishing house, responsible for over 60 titles and translating them into 23 languages, is looking for a publisher on £70,000 per year.

Rotund man with rosy red cheeks and full beard needed

It has got to be the best job on the planet. Just one days work per year with 364 days off and comes with convertible company vehicle.

You need a sweet tooth too and if you like a tipple then this might be the job (as long as you do not take the company vehicle on the public highways)

If you fit the above criteria there is an opportunity in the New Forest. Stewarts garden centre is looking for for a jolly nice Father Christmas to help distribute presents at their grotto.

International Greenkeeping jobs - who's hiring and who's firing?

There is a change in the air in the world of on line job advertisements.

Landscape Juice has just started its very own land based