Careers at Bare Roots Gardening
Bare Roots Gardening is a full-service residential landscape design-build and garden maintenance company serving Columbia, SC, and the surrounding Midlands since 2018. We specialize in naturalistic planting with native plants, care for ornamental gardens, and installation of hardscapes, irrigation, landscape lighting, and garden features.
We maintain a very high level of quality in our work. Working with capable people who care about each other and the work they do is a big part of what makes this job enjoyable.
Our goal is to create sustainable outdoor places our clients can call home—landscapes that engage the senses, celebrate seasonal change, and get better with age. We’re here to build great gardens and great gardeners, too.
Grow with Bare Roots Gardening
Every position asks for honesty, a positive attitude, hard work outdoors, and a willingness to learn and take direction. You’ll need a valid driver’s license with a clean record and reliable daily transportation.
Now Hiring: Landscape Crew Member
November 1, 2026 / Full-time / Part-time / $20-$28 per hour
Our landscape crew members build residential landscapes and care for them as they grow. The work is construction and horticulture together: site work, stone, irrigation, lighting, planting, and the seasonal care that keeps a garden looking the way it was designed to. The crew member’s job is to deliver quality installation and garden care while meeting the day’s production and budget goals with the rest of the team.
Job Duties
- Perform demolition, removals, grading, and soil preparation using hand tools, small equipment, and heavy equipment.
- Install trees, shrubs, perennials, and grasses; transplant existing plants; spread compost and mulch.
- Assist with construction of patios, walkways, and retaining walls, including natural-stone work.
- Assist with installation and repair of irrigation, sprinkler systems, drainage, and landscape lighting; adjust irrigation, sprinklers, and lighting as directed.
- Assist with building raised beds, arbors, pergolas, and other garden features.
- Perform garden care and landscape maintenance, including small-tree and shrub pruning, hedge trimming, hand weeding, edging, fertilizing, seasonal cutbacks, invasive-plant removal, and care of new plantings.
- Apply chemical weed treatments to ornamental beds and turf areas under supervision.
- Monitor and report on plant health and growing conditions, including soil conditions and watering needs.
- Perform grounds cleanup, debris removal, and disposal.
Responsibilities
- Organize and carry out assigned work under supervision, following safe and efficient work practices.
- Load, organize, clean, and store tools, equipment, and materials; leave work sites clean and orderly.
- Document and submit daily time entries, job notes, and photos.
Expectations
- Quality: Follow plans and installation methods, check your work, and meet project standards for workmanship and finish.
- Teamwork: Coordinate tasks, share the effort, and help the crew meet daily production goals.
- Problem-solving: Recognize unexpected conditions, ask useful questions, and help develop practical solutions.
- Communication: Share progress and concerns promptly, clarify instructions, and apply feedback.
- Professional relationships: Treat coworkers and clients respectfully, protect clients’ property, and build trust through reliable work and follow-through.
Preferred Qualifications & Skills
- One year of professional landscaping, construction, gardening, or related experience.
- Identification of common landscape trees, shrubs, and other plants.
- Knowledge of plant physiology, soil management, and weed management.
- Experience with small power tools, including leaf blowers, hedge trimmers, and chainsaws.
- Skills in stonework, irrigation, carpentry, measuring, layout, or equipment operation.
- Excellent verbal and written communication.
- Mechanical aptitude, manual dexterity, and attention to detail.
Requirements
- Reliable daily transportation.
- A valid driver’s license with a clean driving history.
- Ability to pass a background check.
- Ability to perform sustained outdoor work in changing weather conditions, including prolonged standing, digging, carrying, bending, and kneeling.
- Ability to lift and carry 50 pounds.
- A working mobile device for time entries, job notes, and photos.
Schedule, Pay & Benefits
- Pay: $20–$28 per hour, based on experience.
- Daily schedule: 7:30 a.m.–5:30 p.m.
- Flexible Fridays.
- Weekly pay.
- Annual and performance bonuses possible at six months.
- One week of paid vacation at six months.
- Potential for profit sharing.
- Opportunities for industry networking and continuing education.
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