Planting Design
We are R.H.S qualified Planting Designers for Cardiff, Swansea, Newport and South Wales.
We Design beautiful planting schemes for people and nature.
Beautiful and practical Planting Design. From a single bed to an entire garden.
If you need a professional planting designer in Cardiff, Swansea, Newport or South Wales, we’re here to help. We believe that exceptional gardens deserve exceptional plants. We use our creativity along with our professional horticultural knowledge and understanding of soil type, environment and design, to produce beautiful, bespoke planting schemes that will provide year-round interest in your garden.
Whatever planting style you choose, we create bespoke, easy to follow scale planting plans and planting schedules.
Are you feeling overwhelmed with your garden? Are you looking for season round interest, colour, fragrance, texture, and impact from your garden? Many people are a little nervous when it comes to choosing new plants, so at Folium Gardens we offer friendly, expert planting design, tailored to your garden and needs.
“I found Folium Gardens to be very professional with great communication as well as extremely knowledgeable. I am so happy to have found a reliable service, and would not hesitate to recommend Folium. Many Thanks!” Sarah H, Cardiff
Design Packages offered by Folium planting designers Cardiff and South Wales
We also offer Planting Design as part of our full Garden Design service.
Our Two Levels of Planting Design Service
We offer different options to suit your specific needs and budget.
You can also choose from one of our Garden Design packages to pair with your chosen planting design service.
Planting Light
Expertly selected Plant List
Scaled, detailed Planting Plans
Plant Schedule
Plant Care Guide (optional)
Planting Full
Expertly selected Plant List
Scaled, detailed Planting Plans
Plant Schedule
Plant Care Guide (optional)
Package Details by Folium planting designers – Cardiff and South Wales
Initial Consultation
What Happens
All Planting Design projects start with an initial consultation* where we learn what you would like to achieve with your new planting design. Consultations can either be by phone or video (and we will ask you to send us some photos and measurements of your garden), or we can arrange a site visit at your garden. The consultation is where you explain to us what you want, with as much detail as possible.
We will also send you a few questions to answer, to help you think about what you might want from your new planting. This ensures we make the best use of the time during our discussion.
After The Consultation
We’ll then send you a written proposal to ensure that we have understood what you are hoping to achieve and which includes our planting design fees.
* We charge a fee to cover costs and travel time of onsite consultation visits.
Planting Light
What’s Included
If you need help in identifying suitable new plants for your garden, this service is designed for you. Maybe you feel overwhelmed by plant choices when you visit a garden centre? Or you might prefer creating a border on your own, rather than following one of our planting plans, but find yourself unsure where to start?
Your personalised Plant List will include named varieties of plants to fit your existing borders. You then select your favourite plants from the list and arrange them in your garden, deciding on groupings, quantities, and sizes for a personalised and stunning look.
The Plant List will take into consideration various factors such as soil type, sunlight/shade levels, and other conditions in your garden. The plants will match your colour preferences, complement each other visually, suit your garden style, and the selection will take into account their mature size (height and spread). Moreover, the selection is designed to be within your gardening skills, and it includes accurate identification with botanical names and specific varieties.
You will receive:
- Consultation to discuss your planting requirements, as well as what you’d like to achieve.
- Plant List (Photo ID, named varieties, heights and spreads, flowering period) – PDF.
- Plant Care Guide (optional) with descriptions of plants, photo ID, and plant maintenance instructions as well as guide to watering and aftercare of your new plants. Please Note: This an optional extra charged from £95.00.
- Complementary soil improvement guide (included with Plant Care Guide).
Planting Full
What’s Included
Ideal for people who are happy with their garden’s existing design and layout, but who need expert planting advice to get the best from their garden. Perfect for new planting areas or significant changes to existing beds and borders, including the re-design of challenging planting areas.
This ‘full’ service not only provides plenty of ideas and inspiration, but also provides bespoke, detailed Planting Plans, helping you achieve your desired look.
Planting plans can be created for a whole garden, or just part of it.
We’ll provide a Plant List with named plant varieties suitable for your preferred planting style, complete with a photo ID. Additionally, this service includes an ‘Image Board’ for visualising colours and styles.
Once you approve the style and plant selection, we create bespoke Planting Plans, considering space, plant dimensions, and year-round interest. We also provide a Plant Schedule, which acts like a ‘shopping list’ for new plants, and specifies a list of plants by category along with total quantities of each plant required for the new scheme to make for easy procurement from your local nursery.
You will receive:
- Consultation to discuss your planting requirements, as well as what you’d like to achieve.
- Site visit, where we will assess things like soil type, aspect and other environmental conditions of your garden.
- Image Board – set of images and collages to help you visualise the planting style.
- Plant List (named varieties and photo ID).
- Detailed Planting Plan showing positions of each plant in the new planting scheme, as well as seasonal variations in colour.
- Plant Schedule – a list of the plants by category together with total quantities of each plant required.
- Plant Care Guide (optional) with descriptions of plants, photo ID, and plant maintenance instructions as well as guide to watering and aftercare of your new plants. Please Note: This an optional extra charged from £95.00.
- Complementary soil improvement guide (included with Plant Care Guide).
Plant Care Guide
What’s Included
Our comprehensive Plant Care Guide includes photo ID and description of each plant in your new scheme, as well as maintenance instructions for each plant together with a ‘Seasonal Maintenance’ summary. The guide also includes aftercare instructions for watering and a complementary Soil Improvement Guide, to help keep your garden healthy and your new plants happy!
- Descriptions of plants, photo ID,
- Plant maintenance instructions for each plant as well as seasonal plant care guide
- Guide to watering and aftercare of your new plants
- Complementary soil improvement guide (included with Plant Care Guide)
Folium Planting Designers – Cardiff, Swansea & South Wales
Additional Services
As R.H.S qualified horticulturists we can supply and install beautiful plants for your garden.
Planting Services offered by Folium planting designers – Cardiff and South Wales
Plant Sourcing
What’s Included
Do you need help finding high-quality plants for one of our Planting Designs or Plant Lists? If so, we are happy to do the organising so that you don’t have to.
We offer a bespoke plant sourcing service, collaborating with several trusted trade nurseries to source and deliver high-quality plants for your planting scheme.
Please contact us for more information and a price estimate.
*Please note: Unless plant sourcing is for one of our designs, the minimum order value for this service is £500. (please note we are not VAT registered).
Planting Service
What’s Included
We offer our Planting Design customers a Setting Out and Planting Up Service. We will set out your plants according to the planting plan as well as making any fine tuning to final positions.
Please discuss this option after commissioning us for your planting design work.
Planters with ‘Ready To Go’ Planting
What’s Included
Our bespoke planting designs in high quality, stylish contemporary or traditional planters, which we can source, with designs to suit both your garden and your style. Our planters and planting schemes are easy to look after and they will instantly add value to your garden, however large or small.
Options can include:
- Consultation to discuss your planting requirements, as well as what you’d like to achieve. An initial phone consultation for this service is free of charge. We are also happy to visit for an on-site consultation, which is available as an option for more complex sites or design requirements.
- Sourcing of planters to the style and finish of your choice.
- Plant List (named varieties and photo ID).
- Planting Plans – for more complex designs as well as larger planters.
- Plant Schedule – total quantities of each plant required.
- Sourcing of plants according to plant schedule.
- Plant Care Guide with descriptions of plants, photo ID, and plant maintenance instructions as well as guide to watering and aftercare of your new plants. Please Note: This an optional extra charged from £95.00.
Fees
Since every garden design project is different, we provide a written estimate of our fees after our initial consultation. In detail this estimate will include those parts of the design process that you have asked us to carry out. We can add additional services (such as plant sourcing) under a separate estimate, if requested. In general, our fees are based on guidance from the Society of Garden Designers.