Gardenland sells, repairs and rents premium zero-emission and gas-powered landscape equipment. Our customers are predominantly commercial customers such as cities, schools, municipalities and professional landscape and tree care companies. We also sell to DIY homeowners that want semi-professional quality equipment.

Gardenland has been a family owned and run business since 1960. We have always been a family run business focused on serving our customers, growing our business, and taking care of employees. Our leadership team has a background in the outdoor power equipment industry, Silicon Valley start-ups and technology companies. Our continued growth and success is dependent upon building a strong team. We are focused on empowerment, mentoring employees, and cultivating individual careers.

Gardenland Power Equipment was founded in 1960 by Ray Matsumoto. Ray served in the US Army during the Korean War, and upon returning home, he faced considerable discrimination against Asians. Unable to find a job he started his own gardening business, but quickly saw an opportunity to sell quality landscape tools to fellow gardeners, so he launched Gardenland. Ray was one of the first shops to sell gas-powered lawn mowers, hedge trimmers, weed trimmers and chainsaws. 

In 1970, Glenn Kurimoto joined Ray, and the two of them grew Gardenland into the 1990s.

Richard Ogawa became the third partner in 2014, and now runs the show as CEO/President after Ray and Glenn retirement. Gardenland tripled in sales revenues after Richard joined the company.

After you submit your resume our General Manager will contact you for a 30-minute phone interview to see if you have the experience to meet our job requirements. After a successful phone interview, we will invite you to interview in-person so you can meet members of our team, and experience our work environment. 

We will require everyone to mask-up and follow COVID safety protocol. 

Gardenland provides full-time employees with great benefits including:

• Medical, vision and dental insurance coverage
• Annual Profit-Sharing bonus opportunities
• 401k retirement benefits (after 1-yr of employment)
• Gardenland Employee Retirement Program
• On the Job Training and professional skills development
• Accrue sick leave and vacation
• Flexible work hours
• Career opportunities

Bring a strong work ethic, demonstrate an eagerness to help co-workers, have passion and enthusiasm to help customers, be open to learning new things, and want to take-on new responsibilities. We want to cross-pollinate our company with innovative ideas so you must have an open mind to try new things, and be prepared to roll-up your sleeves to help grow our company.

Gardenland is categorized as a hardware store and an essential business. We did not close and we did not layoff employees or cut hours. We comply with the Santa Clara County Health Department COVID-19 Guidelines. Currently, all employees take a temperature check before starting work, and are required to wear a mask on-site. We also require customers to wear a mask inside our store. We also installed barriers at our sales counter to maintain safe social distancing space between customers and our team members.