What are the responsibilities and job description for the Garden Center Sales & Plant Specialist position at White River Nursery?
White River Nursery is looking for a full-time Garden Center Sales & Plant Specialist to join our team. We are a locally owned, independent garden center in Fayetteville, Arkansas, and we’re looking for someone who brings both great customer service skills and real plant knowledge to the job.
Garden center, nursery, landscaping, horticulture, or similar plant-related experience is strongly preferred.
What You’ll Do
You’ll spend your days helping customers find the right plants and products for their gardens while helping our team keep the nursery beautiful, organized, stocked, and ready for customers.
Responsibilities include:
- Helping customers select trees, shrubs, perennials, annuals, houseplants, and other garden products
- Answering plant care questions and making recommendations based on growing conditions
- Providing friendly, knowledgeable customer service
- Receiving, pricing, displaying, watering, and maintaining plant material
- Monitoring plants for watering needs, pests, disease, and overall quality
- Keeping sales areas clean, organized, attractive, and well stocked
- Loading plants, soil, mulch, pottery, and other products for customers
- Operating the register and assisting with general garden center sales
- Working alongside the rest of the team wherever help is needed, especially during our busy seasons
Who We’re Looking For
Our ideal candidate:
- Has previous garden center, nursery, horticulture, landscaping, or plant-related experience
- Has a strong working knowledge of plants and basic plant care
- Enjoys talking with customers and helping them solve gardening problems
- Is dependable, self-motivated, and willing to jump in when something needs to be done
- Is comfortable working outdoors in heat, cold, and changing weather
- Can handle the physical nature of garden center work, including being on their feet for extended periods and regularly lifting and moving plants and garden products
- Works well as part of a team
- Is comfortable in a busy, fast-paced environment, particularly during spring
- Is available to work weekends. Weekend availability is required for this position.
About White River Nursery
White River Nursery is a locally owned garden center serving Northwest Arkansas. We love plants, but we also believe a great garden center is about more than what’s on the benches. It’s about giving customers good information, helping them become better gardeners, and creating a place people enjoy visiting.
We’re a small business, which means everyone on our team plays an important role. We’re looking for someone who takes pride in their work, notices what needs to be done, enjoys learning, and genuinely likes helping people and working with plants.
Position Details
Schedule: Full-time, including weekends
Location: White River Nursery, Fayetteville, Arkansas
Experience: Garden center or plant-related experience strongly preferred
If you have plant knowledge, love working with people, and think you’d be a great fit for White River Nursery, we’d love to hear from you.
To apply: Send us your resume along with a short note telling us about your plant or garden center experience and why you’re interested in joining the White River Nursery team.
Pay: $15.00 - $18.00 per hour
Benefits:
- Employee discount
Ability to Commute:
- Fayetteville, AR 72701 (Required)
Work Location: In person
Salary : $15 - $18