diff --git a/packages/grafana-runtime/src/components/FolderPicker.tsx b/packages/grafana-runtime/src/components/FolderPicker.tsx
index 3a22b761e96..2e129480908 100644
--- a/packages/grafana-runtime/src/components/FolderPicker.tsx
+++ b/packages/grafana-runtime/src/components/FolderPicker.tsx
@@ -13,6 +13,9 @@ interface FolderPickerProps {
   /* Folder UIDs to exclude from the picker, to prevent invalid operations */
   excludeUIDs?: string[];
 
+  /* Start tree from this folder instead of root */
+  rootFolderUID?: string;
+
   /* Show folders matching this permission, mainly used to also show folders user can view. Defaults to showing only folders user has Edit  */
   permission?: 'view' | 'edit';
 
diff --git a/public/app/core/components/NestedFolderPicker/NestedFolderPicker.tsx b/public/app/core/components/NestedFolderPicker/NestedFolderPicker.tsx
index 042ec10f9ce..fc8bd0bf00c 100644
--- a/public/app/core/components/NestedFolderPicker/NestedFolderPicker.tsx
+++ b/public/app/core/components/NestedFolderPicker/NestedFolderPicker.tsx
@@ -36,6 +36,9 @@ export interface NestedFolderPickerProps {
   /* Folder UIDs to exclude from the picker, to prevent invalid operations */
   excludeUIDs?: string[];
 
+  /* Start tree from this folder instead of root */
+  rootFolderUID?: string;
+
   /* Show folders matching this permission, mainly used to also show folders user can view. Defaults to showing only folders user has Edit  */
   permission?: 'view' | 'edit';
 
@@ -66,6 +69,7 @@ export function NestedFolderPicker({
   showRootFolder = true,
   clearable = false,
   excludeUIDs,
+  rootFolderUID,
   permission = 'edit',
   onChange,
 }: NestedFolderPickerProps) {
@@ -102,7 +106,7 @@ export function NestedFolderPicker({
     items: browseFlatTree,
     isLoading: isBrowseLoading,
     requestNextPage: fetchFolderPage,
-  } = useFoldersQuery(isBrowsing, foldersOpenState, permissionLevel);
+  } = useFoldersQuery(isBrowsing, foldersOpenState, permissionLevel, rootFolderUID);
 
   useEffect(() => {
     if (!search) {
diff --git a/public/app/core/components/NestedFolderPicker/useFoldersQuery.ts b/public/app/core/components/NestedFolderPicker/useFoldersQuery.ts
index 6fe4c0ef440..ee96989b9a8 100644
--- a/public/app/core/components/NestedFolderPicker/useFoldersQuery.ts
+++ b/public/app/core/components/NestedFolderPicker/useFoldersQuery.ts
@@ -7,10 +7,12 @@ import { useFoldersQueryLegacy } from './useFoldersQueryLegacy';
 export function useFoldersQuery(
   isBrowsing: boolean,
   openFolders: Record<string, boolean>,
-  permission?: PermissionLevelString
+  permission?: PermissionLevelString,
+  /* Start tree from this folder instead of root */
+  rootFolderUID?: string
 ) {
-  const resultLegacy = useFoldersQueryLegacy(isBrowsing, openFolders, permission);
-  const resultAppPlatform = useFoldersQueryAppPlatform(isBrowsing, openFolders);
+  const resultLegacy = useFoldersQueryLegacy(isBrowsing, openFolders, permission, rootFolderUID);
+  const resultAppPlatform = useFoldersQueryAppPlatform(isBrowsing, openFolders, rootFolderUID);
 
   // Running the hooks themselves don't have any side effects, so we can just conditionally use one or the other
   // requestNextPage function from the result
diff --git a/public/app/core/components/NestedFolderPicker/useFoldersQueryAppPlatform.ts b/public/app/core/components/NestedFolderPicker/useFoldersQueryAppPlatform.ts
index b877c69aba0..b1541cbfcd2 100644
--- a/public/app/core/components/NestedFolderPicker/useFoldersQueryAppPlatform.ts
+++ b/public/app/core/components/NestedFolderPicker/useFoldersQueryAppPlatform.ts
@@ -25,7 +25,12 @@ const collator = new Intl.Collator();
  * This version uses the getFolderChildren API from the folder v1beta1 API. Compared to legacy API, the v1beta1 API
  * does not have pagination at the moment.
  */
-export function useFoldersQueryAppPlatform(isBrowsing: boolean, openFolders: Record<string, boolean>) {
+export function useFoldersQueryAppPlatform(
+  isBrowsing: boolean,
+  openFolders: Record<string, boolean>,
+  /* rootFolderUID: configure which folder to start browsing from */
+  rootFolderUID?: string
+) {
   const dispatch = useDispatch();
 
   // Keep a list of all request subscriptions so we can unsubscribe from them when the component is unmounted
@@ -150,11 +155,12 @@ export function useFoldersQueryAppPlatform(isBrowsing: boolean, openFolders: Rec
       return list;
     }
 
-    const rootFlatTree = createFlatList(rootFolderToken, state.responseByParent[rootFolderToken], 1);
+    const startingToken = rootFolderUID ?? rootFolderToken;
+    const rootFlatTree = createFlatList(startingToken, state.responseByParent[startingToken], 1);
     rootFlatTree.unshift(getRootFolderItem());
 
     return rootFlatTree;
-  }, [state, isBrowsing, openFolders]);
+  }, [state, isBrowsing, openFolders, rootFolderUID]);
 
   return {
     items: treeList,
diff --git a/public/app/core/components/NestedFolderPicker/useFoldersQueryLegacy.ts b/public/app/core/components/NestedFolderPicker/useFoldersQueryLegacy.ts
index 84c540f7f71..52e33a538d7 100644
--- a/public/app/core/components/NestedFolderPicker/useFoldersQueryLegacy.ts
+++ b/public/app/core/components/NestedFolderPicker/useFoldersQueryLegacy.ts
@@ -48,7 +48,9 @@ function getPagesLoadStatus(pages: ListFoldersQuery[]): [boolean, number | undef
 export function useFoldersQueryLegacy(
   isBrowsing: boolean,
   openFolders: Record<string, boolean>,
-  permission?: PermissionLevelString
+  permission?: PermissionLevelString,
+  /* rootFolderUID: configure which folder to start browsing from */
+  rootFolderUID?: string
 ) {
   const dispatch = useDispatch();
 
@@ -178,11 +180,13 @@ export function useFoldersQueryLegacy(
       return flatList;
     }
 
-    const rootFlatTree = createFlatList(undefined, state.rootPages, 1);
+    const startingPages = rootFolderUID ? state.pagesByParent[rootFolderUID] : state.rootPages;
+
+    const rootFlatTree = createFlatList(rootFolderUID ?? undefined, startingPages ?? [], 1);
     rootFlatTree.unshift(getRootFolderItem());
 
     return rootFlatTree;
-  }, [state, isBrowsing, openFolders]);
+  }, [state, isBrowsing, openFolders, rootFolderUID]);
 
   return {
     items: treeList,