Monthly Archives: January 2009

The Modern Japanese Garden

This book presents a set of recently built gardens not seen before outside Japan.

The styles are varying but inspirational (with the odd avant garde example).  The photography is excellent and accompanying text with occasional plans and visualisations gives an insight into some of the new ideas of what can constitute a garden in a society where space is at a critical premium.

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Book Review – The Plantfinder’s Guide to Early Bulbs

It’s at this time of year that you long for some flowers in the garden.  As spring approaches everyone looks for the first snowdrop or crocus, followed by the daffodils – especially here in Wales.

We love bulbs and try to plant some with every project – they’re great value for money and low maintenance.

If you’re looking for inspiration for bulbs then you should take a look at The Plantfinder’s Guide to Early Bulbs by Rod Leeds.  Rod is one of the UK’s leading  experts on Alpines and Bulbs and the book provides many unusual early flowering bulb suggestions.  Lovely photography inspires and full information on each cultivar as well as planting and care information helps you decide what would be good for your garden

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Welcome to the new 2009 Website

After the old website had served us well for 5 years we thought it was about time for a refresh.  So welcome to the new website for Rogerstone Gardens and the new Blog too.

As always with these things the site is a work in progress.  There’s lots of examples of our work which we haven’t had a chance to show before and we’ll be making an effort to get new designs and photos up on the site during the next few months.  We’re also planning to get some of the videos of our designs that we produce for our clients up on the site too.

We’ll also be launching some new services too so please come back soon to see what’s on offer.

With the Blog we wanted to have a place where we could highlight what we’d been up to and also a place where we could publish useful and interesting information regarding plants, gardening, garden design and so on.

As always if you have any questions regarding Rogerstone Gardens or you think we could help you with your garden please contact us via our contact form