Hands-on skilled outdoor-trade professionals placed permanently across landscape gardening, arboriculture, grounds maintenance, sports turf, estate gardening, market garden operations and outdoor-trade leadership. Trade-credential verified. UK-wide.
We built the firm around what hands-on horticulture, landscape and grounds employers were missing from generalist agencies: trade-credential fluency, actual understanding of what a Class 30 chainsaw ticket means, and one accountable consultant on every brief from intake through onboarding follow-up.
Our consultants understand the ecosystem: LANTRA, NPTC, BIGGA, BALI, RHS, PGG, SGD, ISA. You spend the intake call describing the site and the crew you want to build, not educating us on the trade.
NPTC certificates, ISA arborist status, BIGGA membership, RHS qualifications, PA1/PA2/PA6 spraying tickets, PASMA and IPAF, CSCS Green Card. All confirmed against issuing bodies before introduction.
Not a stack of unfiltered CVs. Three to five candidates, ranked, tickets checked, portfolio or site references confirmed, our written notes on each.
The consultant who took the brief runs the search, closes the offer and calls at day thirty and day ninety. No account-management layer.
If the package is under the market for the site type, we say so on the first call. Better a difficult conversation up front than a stalled search after four weeks.
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.
Site, crew, tickets required, day-rate or salary and timeline agreed in one call. Written brief returned within 24 hours.
Active trade network plus discreet approach to passive candidates. Client identity withheld until you release it.
Three to five candidates, tickets verified, references from previous site leads confirmed, our written notes on each.
Interview coordination, offer support, start-date logistics, onboarding check-ins at day 30 and day 90.
Depth inside each trade is what makes our shortlists arrive faster and better matched than a generalist firm can manage.
Hands-on landscape gardeners and site foremen for domestic-garden and commercial landscape installation firms. CSCS, machinery tickets and portfolio-reviewed.
Climbing arborists, ground crews and team leads. LANTRA, NPTC CS30/31/38/39, ISA-certified where required, chainsaw and MEWP tickets verified.
Grounds crew, mower operators and crew leaders for parks, cemeteries, corporate estates and public open spaces. PA1/PA6 tickets where relevant.
Greenkeepers, head greenkeepers and turf managers for golf courses, cricket squares, football pitches and horse-racing turf. BIGGA-registered.
Head gardeners and estate garden teams for private estates, historic properties, National Trust adjacent and Professional Gardeners Guild member firms.
RHS-qualified horticulturists, production nursery growers, propagation specialists and nursery leads for wholesale and retail growers.
The design end of the trade: BALI members, Landscape Institute chartered, Society of Garden Designers registered practitioners for boutique studios and larger practices.
Small-scale intensive growers, organic producers, farm-shop growers and CSA operators. Practical growing experience plus operations leadership.
Small-plant technicians for Stihl, Husqvarna, John Deere, Kubota and Toro. Dealer-side and independent workshop-based roles.
Utility line-clearance climbers and hazard tree teams for electricity network operators, rail operators and highways agencies.
Rural estate managers running mixed operations across gardens, land, tenancies and forestry for private estates, family offices and land trusts.
Operations directors, account managers and area managers for national grounds-maintenance firms, landscape contractors and integrated facilities operators.
Recruitment done properly for the outdoor trades means the same consultant from intake through onboarding, honest advice about the day-rate on day one, verified tickets before the CV lands on your desk, and a written guarantee behind the placement long after the offer letter is signed.Real Men Sow Recruitment · The Partner Team
Twelve outdoor-trade and horticulture disciplines: landscape gardeners and installation foremen, arborists and tree surgery teams, grounds maintenance and crew leaders, sports turf and greenkeepers, head gardeners and estate gardening, horticulturists and nursery growers, landscape designers and architects, market garden operations, garden machinery technicians, utility arboriculture, rural estate managers, grounds and outdoor-trades leadership.
Yes. UK-wide coverage across every region and nation. Active networks in the South West, South East, Home Counties, Midlands, Yorkshire, North West, North East, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland.
LANTRA and NPTC CS30/31/38/39 for arborists, BALI and Landscape Institute for landscape professionals, RHS-qualified horticulturists, BIGGA for greenkeepers, PGG-linked estates, SGD for garden designers, ISA-certified arborists, plus CSCS and machinery-manufacturer certifications for skilled trades.
Standard turnaround is ten to fifteen working days from signed brief to ranked shortlist of three to five candidates. Season-critical hires can be prioritised on request.
Yes. Every permanent placement carries a written replacement guarantee. If the hire leaves inside the guarantee window for reasons that trace back to the search, we re-run the search at no additional fee.
Every placement we make is a permanent hire onto your operation. Full-time direct employees of your business.