If you're a keen gardener you may well have an area dedicated to growing produce. If so, you'll know that watering is key to success with a kitchen garden. It doesn't matter whether you're raising leafy greens, fruit crops, root vegetables or legumes. All of these need plenty of water...
We've had so much going on over the last couple of weeks that we quite forgot to share our April art with you! As you know, we like to share a piece of garden-related art each month. For the whole of 2022, we're showing you photographs by Karl Blossfeldt. Blossfeldt...
At Rosewood we often say that complete customer satisfaction is our top priority. But how do we measure our success in this area? It's easy to see whether our irrigation systems do what they're supposed to do, which is helping gardens thrive. Likewise, we can tell whether we've repaired a...
Let's face it, England is a pretty temperate country. During the late autumn and the winter, rainfall is reliable - sometimes even excessive. However, you mustn't let that lull you into a false sense of security. Climate change is affecting the whole world. This means that during spring and summer...
Each month over the last few years, we've shared a great piece of garden-related art. All through 2022 we're looking at Blossfeldt plant photos. For March, we're sharing his image of a cephalaria (giant scabious) seed head. If you've been reading our blog regularly, you'll already know something about Blossfeldt. ...
Are you looking for a company to design and install an irrigation system for your garden? If so, you will doubtless have questions to ask before you decide on one. Is the company reputable? Is it long-established? Are the staff easy to deal with? And most importantly, do they know...
Irrigation under paving Have you ever considered getting an irrigation system but then disregarded the idea due to concerns about unsightly pipework? If you are thinking that pipes would need to run across driveways or paths, you don't need to worry. At Rosewood we always run irrigation pipework beneath any slabs...
As more and more people realise the benefits of having an automatic watering system in the garden, the residential irrigation sector is growing. There is increasing demand for domestic garden irrigation systems, so more companies are springing up to deal with that demand. This means that if you want a...
Last month we shared our first photograph by Karl Blossfeldt. He was a German photographer renowned for his close up plant photographs. He became famous almost overnight after the publication of his book in 1929. People went mad for his pictures, as nobody had seen anything like them before. If...
Every summer, when the lawn dries out and goes brown, people call Rosewood desperate to find out about our garden irrigation systems. You might therefore presume that the demand for irrigation disappears in the colder, wetter months of the year. It's true that finding an easier, more efficient way to...