Grow love. · Garden & landscaping, Puchong
Get the ground right. The garden follows.
Tanaman is a garden company that started in Puchong, run by Hazman Safaraz, Founder of Tanaman, a man who has kept living things alive all his life. He designs each garden, decides where every plant goes and runs the crew on site.
Why we work this way
Anyone can plant a garden. Keeping it alive is the job.
You don’t really keep the fish, you keep the water.
Most gardens are sold as a picture. Plants arrive fresh from the nursery, everything is green on handover day, the photos are lovely. Then the rains come, the clay underneath holds the water, and the garden starts dying quietly from the roots up.
We come at it from the other end. Ask anyone who keeps an aquarium: you don’t really keep the fish, you keep the water. A garden is the same. We look after the habitat, which means the soil, the drainage, the light and the right mix around the roots. Then the plants look after themselves.
Hazman Safaraz, Founder of Tanaman
The man behind Tanaman.
Before a single plant goes in, we look at the tanah. We open it, feed it, and blend our own mixes for what will grow there. Then we design the garden so it is easy to look after, because handover day is the easy part. The real test is an ordinary morning five years on, when everything is still alive.
Everything started in Puchong, from Hazman. He designs each garden, decides where every plant goes and runs the crew on site. Many of his clients keep coming back.
Look after the place, and the living things look after themselves.
- Sort out where the water goes.Water
- Know what you are planting into.Honesty
- Plan for the grown-up size.Patience
- Right plant, right place.Light
- A little steady care and no heroics.Restraint
Three things we are stubborn about
The soil
What is under the garden decides what happens on top. We sort out drainage, open up compacted ground and put life back into it before anything is planted.
It starts with the soilThe mix
An aroid, a lawn, a vegetable bed and a rooftop planter all want different things around their roots. We blend our own media for each.
How we think about a mixEasy to keep
We maintain gardens as well as design them, so we design out the hard work: right plant, right place, room to grow, and a way in for the crew.
The rules we design byWhere you’ll find our work
On a roof in KL. And in a lobby.
On the roofA rooftop food garden in KL.
Galvanised raised planters, edible plants. A rooftop is about the hardest place you can ask a plant to live. Full sun, steady wind, heat off the concrete, and a planting mix that must be light and quick to drain but still hold water through the afternoon. It is a soil problem before it is anything else.
InsideAn office lobby.
Indoors is a hard habitat of a different kind: air-conditioning, low light and no rain. We supply plants, place them and look after them.
And closer to home.
We maintain condominium and commercial landscapes too. Everything started in Puchong, and we work there first, then in KL, PJ, Klang, Damansara, Subang and Nilai.
What we do
Eight ways we can help.
Whichever one you need, it starts the same way. We come and look at the place first.
Consultation
We walk the site with you, look at the light, the drainage and the tanah, and tell you plainly what will thrive there and what won’t. The walk is free and takes about 30 to 60 minutes. You leave with a direction, a plant list and an idea of the upkeep.
Landscape design & build
Lawns, paths, pebble courtyards, rock gardens, feature trees, lighting. Designed for the site and built from the groundwork up, with every plant given room for the size it will become.
Garden maintenance
Pruning, feeding, lawn and soil care. Monthly and on request, for homes, offices and community spaces, by people who notice when something has changed.
Condominium & commercial maintenance
Common-area landscapes looked after on a schedule your management office can rely on. We also suggest the small changes that make the grounds cheaper to keep, year on year.
Plant rental
Healthy plants for offices, lobbies, shops and events, delivered and set up. We come back to care for them, so you get the green without the watering rota.
Edible gardens
Herbs, vegetables and fruit for homes, schools, communities and rooftops. We set up the beds, get the soil rich, and teach you to keep it producing. Workshops too, worms included.
Rooftop gardens
Full sun, steady wind and a slab that counts every kilo. We build rooftop gardens around a light, quick-draining mix and plants that can take it, then stay to look after them.
Potted plants & indoor set-up
The right plant for the light you really have, in a mix that suits life in air-con, in a planter that suits the room. From one statement fig to a whole office floor.
Tanaman Garden Products
We make our own soil because we couldn’t buy the soil we wanted.
So we started making it. What we use on our own jobs, bagged for your garden. Made with Australian red and tiger worms, from our own worm farm.
- Vermi Compost. Soul food for your soil. 100% organic, a nutrient-rich, worm-powered fertiliser and soil conditioner.
- Ornamental Soil Mix. Gourmet for your garden. Our blend for ornamental plants.
- Honest Garden Soil. Bagged garden soil. The name is the promise.
- Plant Vitamin. Spray on the good stuff. 100% organic.
Portfolio
Gardens we built. Gardens we keep.
We design, build and look after gardens.
Let’s start from the ground
Show us your garden. We’ll tell you what it wants.
Send us a few photos on WhatsApp, or ask us to come and walk the site. The walk is free and takes about 30 to 60 minutes. We started in Puchong and work there first, then in KL, PJ, Klang, Damansara, Subang and Nilai.