My Garden Plant Recruitment places permanent professional hires for US landscape firms, garden centers, private estates, golf clubs, tree care companies, parks departments and nursery operators. We cover eleven horticultural disciplines, and one consultant runs each brief under a written replacement guarantee.
Landscape firms, garden centers, estates, golf clubs and grounds operators all told us the same thing: generalist recruiters miss the credentials that decide whether a hire lasts through the first growing season. We built the firm around those credentials and the growing calendar.
Our consultants recruit inside horticulture, landscape and grounds, so you can spend the intake call on the site, the plant palette and the team you want.
We check ASLA, APLD, ISA Certified Arborist, TCIA member-firm status, GCSAA, STMA, PGMS, AmericanHort and APS credentials with the issuing bodies, confirm right-to-work documentation and take references.
Spring build-outs, fall plantings, mid-summer turf renovations and snow-season staffing shifts all move your hiring windows. We know when they tighten and work each brief to hit them.
The consultant who took the brief runs the search, closes the offer and calls you at day thirty and day ninety.
If the package is under the market for the role and the region, we say so on the first call. A search on an under-market package can drift for months, so we raise it before we start.
Every permanent placement carries a written guarantee. If the hire leaves inside the window for reasons that trace back to the search, we re-run the search at no additional fee.
Role, site, plant palette, team, package range in USD and timeline agreed in one call. Written brief returned within 24 hours.
Active network plus discreet approach to passive candidates in horticulture, landscape and grounds. Client identity withheld until you release it.
Three to five candidates with credentials verified and notice periods confirmed, ranked with reasons and our written notes on each.
Interview coordination, offer structuring, counter-offer support, onboarding follow-up at day 30 and day 90.
We recruit only inside horticulture, landscape and grounds, and that depth is why our shortlists arrive faster and better matched than a generalist firm can manage.
Landscape architects, senior designers, associate principals and design-leadership appointments across public-realm, private-estate, residential, resort and commercial-landscape practice.
Credentials: ASLA, APLD
Foremen, senior landscapers, hardscape specialists and installation-team leaders for design-build landscape firms coast to coast.
Credentials: NALP member firms, state certification
Climbers, ground crew, crew leaders and consulting arborists for tree care firms, municipalities and utility vegetation management operators.
Credentials: ISA Certified, TCIA, CTSP
Grounds staff, crew leaders and supervisors for parks and recreation departments, corporate campuses, cemeteries, universities and school-grounds operations.
Credentials: PGMS, state pesticide certification
Head gardeners, estate managers and gardens-and-grounds directors for large private estates, historic properties and family offices with significant land holdings from the Hamptons to Palm Beach to Napa.
Credentials: AHS, Longwood Fellows
Horticulturists, senior gardeners, plant-collection specialists and botanical-garden staff for leading US botanical institutions.
Credentials: AHS, NYBG, Longwood
Assistants, superintendents and directors of agronomy for golf clubs, MLB and NFL grounds crews, college athletic fields and municipal sports complexes.
Credentials: GCSAA, STMA
Store managers, plant-area buyers, retail managers and merchandising leads for independent garden centers, IGC-circle retailers and specialist nursery-retail operators.
Credentials: AmericanHort membership
Nursery managers, propagation specialists, growing-team leaders and production leads for wholesale nurseries and container growers across Oregon, Florida, California and North Carolina.
Credentials: AmericanHort, ANLA
Plant clinicians, pathologists and plant-health specialists for botanical gardens, university extension programs, USDA-adjacent operators and commercial plant-health firms.
Credentials: APS, USDA-adjacent
Heads of grounds, directors of gardens and grounds, facilities directors and green-industry leadership appointments across the sector.
Leadership track
Eleven green-industry disciplines: landscape architects and designers, landscape gardeners and installation, arborists and tree care, grounds maintenance, estate managers and head gardeners, horticulturists, sports turf and golf course superintendents, garden centers, nursery and growing, plant health and pathology, and grounds and facilities leadership.
Yes, every brief has US-wide coverage. Our networks run coast to coast, from New England and the Mid-Atlantic through the Southeast, Midwest, Great Plains, Mountain West, Southwest, Pacific Northwest and California.
ASLA, APLD registration, ISA Certified Arborist status, TCIA and CTSP credentials, GCSAA and STMA membership, PGMS affiliation, AHS-recognized horticulture qualifications, AmericanHort and APS. All verified against the issuing body before shortlist.
Standard turnaround is ten to fifteen working days from signed brief to ranked shortlist. Seasonal peaks (spring build-outs, fall plantings, mid-summer turf renovations) may extend this by a week; we tell you upfront.
Yes. Every permanent placement carries a written replacement guarantee. If the hire leaves inside the window for reasons that trace back to the search, we re-run the search at no additional fee.
Most placements carry a standard percentage of the first-year package. Estate-manager, head-gardener and director-of-agronomy appointments run on a retained fee. We quote both on the intake call.
Send us the role, the site, the plant palette and the timeline. We reply within one business day with a plan, a fee proposal and our first-call advice on the package.
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