Greenhouse Assistant — Blossomdale

Role Overview

At Blossomdale, we believe beautiful, healthy plants start with people who genuinely love growing them. Blossomdale is a growing plant and nursery business operating out of Southport, New York. We care for and sell a diverse range of plants, from outdoor landscape plants, trees, and shrubs to indoor houseplants and tropical varieties. We’re looking for a Greenhouse Assistant who loves plants, enjoys working with their hands, and takes pride in keeping things growing. You don’t necessarily need a horticulture degree or years of commercial greenhouse experience. Perhaps you’ve built an impressive houseplant collection, maintained a thriving garden, worked at a nursery, or studied horticulture. What matters is that you can demonstrate genuine plant knowledge, curiosity, and enthusiasm. But we’re looking for more than someone who simply knows how to water plants. Our ideal candidate notices problems before being told, takes initiative to solve them, thrives in a fast-moving environment, and is excited about using modern technology to make plant care smarter and more efficient. This is a part-time, in-person position with meaningful responsibility for the daily health, appearance, and maintenance of our plants. Why oCommerce? Blossomdale is part of oCommerce, a company that builds and operates a portfolio of consumer brands. We combine the traditional art of growing plants with the efficiency, technology, and experimentation of a modern ecommerce business. You’ll have the opportunity to help shape how our greenhouse operates, rather than simply follow an established routine. We welcome new ideas, encourage independent thinking, and believe the best solutions often come from the people working closest to the plants.

Key Responsibilities

• Plant Health & Daily Care — Care for indoor houseplants and outdoor landscape plants, including trees, shrubs, ornamentals, and tropical varieties.
• Manage watering, fertilization, pruning, repotting, soil care, and routine plant maintenance.
• Monitor plant health and identify early signs of pests, diseases, nutrient deficiencies, environmental stress, or improper growing conditions.
• Help maintain suitable lighting, humidity, temperature, and irrigation conditions so plants stay healthy, attractive, and customer-ready.
• Greenhouse & Nursery Operations — Support daily greenhouse operations, keeping growing areas clean, orderly, and efficient.
• Prioritize daily plant-care tasks based on plant health, seasonal conditions, inventory needs, and business demands.
• Assist with receiving, inspecting, organizing, labeling, and preparing live plants for sale.
• Coordinate daily work and help guide other team members as needed.
• Maintain outdoor growing areas and assist with seasonal nursery and landscape maintenance.
• Problem-Solving & Continuous Improvement — Investigate plant-health issues, identify likely causes, and recommend practical corrective actions without waiting for constant direction.
• Identify ways to prevent plant losses, reduce waste, and make care routines more dependable.
• Explore improvements to watering systems, irrigation schedules, greenhouse organization, and plant-health monitoring.
• Use research tools thoughtfully to investigate plant-care problems and efficiency opportunities; verify recommendations against actual growing conditions before applying them.
• Your First 30 Days — Learn our plant assortment, growing conditions, greenhouse layout, daily routines, and existing challenges; identify opportunities for improvement.
• Days 31–60 — Take ownership of assigned plant-care responsibilities, solve recurring issues, and improve daily routines.
• Days 61–90 — Demonstrate a measurable improvement and implement at least one useful process change, such as smarter irrigation, better care scheduling, improved monitoring, or reduced plant losses.

Qualifications & Skills

• Required: Demonstrated plant interest and knowledge through AT LEAST ONE of these paths: education or training in horticulture, botany, plant science, landscaping, or a related field; previous work in a greenhouse, nursery, garden center, landscaping operation, or similar environment; OR a clearly demonstrated personal passion for plants through houseplant collecting, gardening, growing plants, or another plant-focused hobby.
• Required: Reliable transportation to commute consistently to our physical facility in Southport, NY.
• Required: Availability to work part-time, in person.
• Required: Willingness to perform hands-on physical work in greenhouse and outdoor nursery conditions.
• A college degree is not required. Genuine, demonstrable plant knowledge is.
• Comfortable maintaining both landscape plants and indoor houseplants, with a willingness to learn unfamiliar species and techniques.

What we're looking for

• Thrives in a fast-paced environment — Priorities change, plant shipments arrive, weather shifts, and living inventory needs attention. You adapt, stay organized, and keep moving.
• Takes ownership without constant direction — When something is wrong, your first instinct is to investigate, propose a solution, and act appropriately rather than wait for an instruction.
• Problem-solves with sound judgment — You know when to research and test an approach, when to seek specialist input, and when to escalate a genuine risk.
• Genuinely loves plants — You enjoy rescuing an ailing plant, experimenting with a new variety, and understanding why some plants thrive while others struggle.
• Brings useful improvement ideas — You spot small inefficiencies and are willing to test practical changes that improve health, quality, and operating efficiency.
• Collaborative and dependable — You communicate clearly, support teammates when the greenhouse gets busy, and follow through on the plants entrusted to you.
• Focus on tropical houseplants - Caring for tropical houseplants is very different from landscape plants. We need you to understand this, and be experienced in this.

What we offer

• A part-time, hands-on role caring for a diverse collection of houseplants, tropical varieties, landscape plants, shrubs, and trees.
• Meaningful responsibility and the opportunity to shape daily plant-care and greenhouse routines.
• Room to develop professionally in a growing nursery and ecommerce business.
• Exposure to modern tools, technology, irrigation improvements, and more efficient growing operations.
• A team that values curiosity, initiative, practical problem-solving, and continuous learning.
• Compensation: Hourly between $16 to $17.

Our hiring process

• Application review — Share your résumé or relevant background and answer our plant-care and problem-solving questions. We welcome experienced professionals as well as serious plant hobbyists.
• Introductory conversation — Discuss your interest in plants, your approach to work, availability, and what you are looking for.
• Practical plant-care discussion — Work through realistic greenhouse scenarios showing how you diagnose problems, prioritize, and identify solutions.
• On-site visit and final conversation — Meet the team, see our Southport facility, and discuss expectations and next steps.