Landscape Horticulturalist Intern at Midwest Groundcovers LLC – Saint Charles, Illinois

OBJECTIVE/ACCOUNTABILITY

To achieve professional and personal goals through the company while assisting the Product Manager with the maintenance, construction, and development of the Sales Display Gardens and related areas at the St. Charles facility.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

Garden & Landscape Maintenance of the Sales Display Gardens

• See that all plants in display beds are properly labeled at all times

• Be responsible for producing labels and managing label systems

• Work alongside the landscape crew as needed and directed

Make Our Display Gardens an Active & Successful Sales Education Tool

• Train our staff to be confident in hosting garden tours

• In collaboration with sales representatives and management, and at their request, host tours for customers to promote our plants and products

• Collaborate and contribute to the marketing team, creating standard presentations of gardens for frequent and targeted customer audiences

• Support sales reps or the sales team in organizing events such as tours, education, and/or Lunch and Learns

• Maintain connections with key partner public gardens and planting/garden design figures

• Promote a welcoming, learning, and collaborative outlook with customers, visitors, universities, colleges, botanic gardens, students, and industry associations such as ILASLA, IGIA, and Landscape Illinois

• Participate in developing and providing content for websites, apps, signage, brochures, etc. for garden orientations and educational purposes

Additional Areas of Development & Support

• Education/Marketing as requested

• Offer Education Programs by teaching both MG staff and customers about our plants and products

• Assist in updating the plant database

• Assist in providing catalog writing for plant descriptions

• Promotional writing for marketing purposes as directed by the sales and marketing teams
  (For example: promotional stories about specific gardens or plant stories for particular species or cultivars)

• Contribute to and support accession coordination and trial planting with the Product Manager

• Photograph plants and gardens with direction on priority from marketing leadership
  

REQUIRED SKILLS & QUALIFICATIONS

• Good organizational skills

• Currently enrolled in, or recently graduated with, an Associate’s or Bachelor’s degree in a related field of study

• Ability to lift 25 lbs

BENEFITS

• Paid time off and paid holidays

• Employee discounts

ABOUT THE COMPANY

Proudly ranked as both a 2024 and 2025 Top Workplaces Winner in several categories, including Woman-Led companies and Cultural Excellence for Professional Development. Midwest Groundcovers has been growing and propagating over 20 million of the finest wholesale plants in the Midwest. Although groundcovers are our specialty, Midwest Groundcovers’ plant offerings include evergreens and broadleaves, deciduous shrubs, perennials, ornamental grasses, vines, and native prairie, wetland, and woodland species. We are leaders in the Green Industry and partner with landscape architects, landscape designers, and both green roof and plant professionals to create inspiring planting combination solutions. We are experts in plants for Midwestern durability and sustainability for over five decades.