Foliaire

Foliaire is a full-service interior and exterior greenscape design/build/maintenance firm based in Boston's South End, offering plantscaping, rooftop gardens, living walls, and custom garden fabrication. The firm has been in business for roughly 45 years under owners Paul R. Lee and Alan Naylor, and has picked up industry recognition over the years, including an Associated Landscape Contractors of America Environmental Improvement Grand Award and a Greater Boston Business Council Community Service Award. In 2023 reviews, clients praised the quality of Foliaire's planting design and execution: one described a private terrace planting scheme as first class, professional, and perfectly executed, and another credited the firm with keeping a corporate office's green wall and other plantings consistently healthy. More recently, two 2025 reviews from South End neighbors raised concerns not about the design work itself but about crew conduct on site — one reported employees yelling and cursing loudly enough to be heard from several floors up at a neighboring building, and another described an employee driving a company truck too fast through neighborhood stop signs. Foliaire is not BBB Accredited and the BBB lists no rating for the business, though it also records no complaints filed. Anyone hiring Foliaire should ask about how the crew conducts itself on site, given the recent neighborhood complaints, while the firm's long history and design-quality reviews speak to its technical work.