Owen Griffiths Gardener
Agastache spikes in warm evening light

Kew-trained gardener · Penarth & Cardiff

Gardens that feel alive

Skilled, plant-led gardening from a Kew-trained horticulturist: careful pruning, generous planting and productive veg beds that get better every season.

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  • Kew Diploma in Horticulture
  • RHS Level 3
  • Experienced head gardener
Owen Griffiths, gardener

About

Horticultural knowledge, applied with care.

I’m Owen, a professional horticulturist based in Cardiff. I specialise in plant-rich gardens and enjoy working with people who want something more from their garden.

Qualifications include the Kew Diploma in Horticulture and RHS Level 3. As Head Gardener at Horatio’s Garden, I’ve worked closely with acclaimed garden designer Sarah Price, and I also teach horticulture at Pencoed College.

I look after private gardens across Penarth and Cardiff, and whether it’s pruning a favourite shrub at the right time, refining an established border or getting a veg patch going, I bring the same care to every garden.

Naturalistic planting

Layered, seasonal and generous

I favour planting with rhythm, texture and movement: gardens that change through the year and feel abundant without becoming over-manicured.

Linaria flowering along a path in evening light

Skilled gardening, with plants at its heart

Agastache in low sun in front of a house

Garden care & pruning

Regular visits to keep plants healthy and well managed, with careful seasonal work to make the most of your garden.

Thyme seedling among low groundcover

Planting & propagation

Planting up new or tired borders and containers, dividing and propagating plants you already love, and practical, site-specific planting plans chosen for your conditions, style and how much upkeep you want.

Airy flower stems backlit in evening light

Productive gardens

Fruit, vegetables and herbs, growing alongside ornamental planting or in a productive space of their own. Help setting up veg beds, planning what to grow and keeping them cropping.

Birch trunk seen through planting

Approach & area

A garden should get better with time

My approach is horticultural rather than simply cosmetic: understanding how plants grow, pruning them at the right time, improving conditions where needed and helping the whole garden develop season by season.

I work mainly in Penarth and take on selected gardens across Cardiff. Not sure if you’re in my patch? Just ask.

Wildlife-friendly planting

Planting that buzzes

Long-flowering, nectar-rich plants bring bees, hoverflies and other pollinators into the garden for months at a time.

Bee on white veronicastrum spikes, with pink linaria in front
Bumblebee on a dark salvia flower
Hoverfly feeding on an aster
Bee feeding on eupatorium

Seasonal moments

Close-up of pink agastache spikes
Veronicastrum spikes with bees against a brick wall
Umbellifer seedheads in shade
Backlit agastache with asters
Lilac asters in flower
Golden fern fronds
Linaria flowers in evening light
Perovskia and eupatorium in evening light
Nettle-like leaves in low light

Out in the garden

Snapshots from gardens I look after, from veg and greenhouse crops to borders filling out through the season.

Green tomatoes ripening on the vine
Ornamental grasses with asters and allium seedheads
Geranium, agastache and erigeron daisies along a fence
Allium flower heads with salvia behind
Chilli plants with ripening red and yellow fruit in a greenhouse
Salvia and yarrow beneath a birch beside a brick wall and wooden door
Thyme and calamintha softening timber edging
Creeping thyme beneath alchemilla
Densely layered shade planting of grasses, ferns and lime-green foliage
Blue agastache flowering against a stone wall
Deep pink hellebore flowers
Pink linaria (toadflax) in flower
Container planted with euphorbia, ferns and trailing foliage
Crambe in bud with yellow achillea by a stone wall
Drift of small white flowers in a naturalistic planting outside a building
Naturalistic planting of grasses and blue flowers growing beside a building

Get in touch

Let's talk about your garden

Send me a quick email with:

  • Where you’re based (area or postcode)
  • A little about your garden, and a photo or two if you can
  • Whether you’d like regular care, a one-off job or a planting plan
[email protected] Quotes available on request Penarth & Cardiff
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