Heritage an Botanical Gardens Training Programme

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Do you love being outdoors? Do you love gardening, growing and tending to plants? Do you want a career in horticulture? If so then apply now to become an HBGTP trainee!

Applications are now open and close at midnight on Sunday 31st March.

We have 17 trainee places available. Each placement is in a prestigious historic or botanic garden in the UK. Placements are for 12 months and commence in September 2024. Click the map below for details of our upcoming placement gardens.

Interested? Click the button below to apply now!



Please note: The HBGTP is managed by English Heritage. Clicking the above button will take you through to the English Heritage jobs portal.

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2024 Placement Gardens

We are happy to announce that the gardens offering placements from September 2024 will be as follows:

  • Aldourie Castle
  • Audley End House and Gardens (English Heritage)
  • Cambo
  • Chatsworth
  • Fulham Palace House and Garden
  • Hatfield House
  • Helmingham Hall Gardens
  • Holkham Estate
  • Newby Hall
  • Osborne (English Heritage)
  • Picton Castle and Gardens
  • Walmer Castle and Gardens (English Heritage)
  • Winterbourne House and Garden
  • Wrest Park (English Heritage)






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The Historic and Botanic Garden Training Programme began in 2006, with an aim to ensure that the skills needed to work in a historic or botanic garden were passed on to those passionate and committed to a career in horticulture.

The Programme:

  • The HBGTP provides full-time paid work (minimum of national living wage) as a trainee gardener in a UK historic or botanic garden, placements last 12 months and start in September each year.
  • Specialist on-the-tools training is combined with written projects, plant idents and a daily journal.
  • You can apply from the start of March 2024, via this website. Anyone over the age of 18 is eligible to apply but must be able to demonstrate some prior paid or voluntary experience working in the horticulture sector.
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