Overview

As a container garden designer, you’ll help bring color, life, and innovative greenery to local residences and commercial spaces.  This role is perfect for creative individuals with a passion for plants and a flair for design, especially those seeking flexible hours. 

Key Responsibilities

• Design Planning: Assist lead designer/owner in creating visually appealing and functional designs for a variety of container gardens, considering seasonality, color harmony, plant health, and maintenance needs. Designs may include front entrance arrangements, patio arrangements, window boxes, rooftop and pool areas.
• Installation: Ensure planters are watered in accordance with established protocols. 
• Recordkeeping: Keep track of plant varieties used, services rendered, hours and mileage.
• Organization: Assist lead designer in organizing and preparing greens, branches, accents, and supplies before each season.

Required Skills and Qualifications

• Horticultural Knowledge: A broad understanding of plant health, soil science, basic  annual and perennial names, and their suitability for specific conditions is preferred  for candidates. A lot of this can be learned on the job but candidates should have an openness to learning as plant varieties and weather conditions are always changing. 
• Design Sense: Candidates should have a “good eye” and be able to demonstrate creativity in arrangement, color coordination, and spatial planning. They should be willing to stay on top of container garden design trends through social media, training videos and other media outlets.
• Communication Skills: Excellent interpersonal and listening skills to understand client needs, offer tailored advice, and build ongoing relationships. We are committed to providing a fun, positive work environment!  
• Physical Requirements: This position requires bending, squatting, lifting and carrying plant flats, small soil bags, hoses, and tools, such as leaf blowers. Certain job sites require a great deal of walking as well as going up and down steps, often while carrying supplies. Candidates should be willing to work outside in a variety of weather conditions (excluding dangerous weather conditions such as thunderstorms, snowstorms, high winds and ice).  
• Transportation Requirements: Transportation to job sites is helpful but not required. For those using their own cars, Limelight will pay for mileage and car washes.

Hours and Compensation

• Seasonal 3-4 week planting windows are based on grower availability and typically take place in the fall (mid Sept to early October), winter (week before Thanksgiving to first week in December) spring (early April to early May) and summer (early May to first week in June.) Planting windows may shift somewhat due to weather conditions. 
• Flexible hours based on designer’s schedule and number of clients. A three day training period and video training session(s) before first installation is required for all new designers. 
• Compensation includes $20/hour for new/assistant designers and $25/hour for trained/lead designers.  Designers receive wholesale prices for plants from growers, as well as use any available surplus plants, branches and accents from jobs for free.  Mileage compensation and car washes are given to those who use their own cars. 

To apply for a screening interview please e-mail Whitney at whitney@limelightplanters.com with a statement of interest and a little about yourself. Resumes are not necessary.