As the year comes to an end, we wanted to share our pictures of some of the best garden irrigation jobs of 2024. Take a look at our photos at the top of this post. You'll see how many ways irrigation systems can help your garden thrive! If you look...
We don't need to tell you how irrigation can help gardens thrive. You all know already that any plant which receives exactly the right amount of water, at the right frequency, will do better than one which gets watered haphazardly. Bearing that in mind, are you also aware that plants...
You all know Rosewood as a garden irrigation design and installation company, rather than a landscaping contractor. However, we use similar machinery and equipment, and have considerable expertise in the areas of turfing, hedging and the like. For this reason, customers sometimes call on us to carry out landscaping work. ...
We design Rosewood garden irrigation systems with great care. We use top-quality components, and expect our systems to last for many years. However, like everything, a little care and attention to maintenance is important. This is why we offer a maintenance contract where we visit you in autumn and again...
At Rosewood, our longtime motto has been 'helping gardens thrive'. It's obvious that when plants get exactly the water they require, it keeps them healthy and vigorous, but thriving gardens involve more than plants. You may not have thought about how irrigation helps wildlife too. Let us explain how!...
We've had some very wet weather over the last couple of months, but summer is here at last! It means we can finally enjoy time outside in our gardens. However, as soon as we have a couple of days in a row without rainfall, our plants start to suffer. If...
If you've ever thought about having an irrigation system in your garden, you probably know what an amazing job it would do. Even so, you might have worries about how it would look. Would it be practical, but ugly? You can imagine how it would help your plants thrive, but...
We all know about the benefits a garden irrigation system brings during our increasingly hot, dry summers. Climate change means average temperatures in the UK are rising year-on-year, with more prolonged dry periods in the summer. Irrigation systems become especially useful when no rain falls for a long period -...
The efficiency of drip irrigation beats all other methods of watering plants. We will explain below why this is the case. Of course, some plants are unsuited to being irrigated in this way. Trees, for example, need much more water than drip irrigation can provide. Plants like these need different...
Did you know that garden irrigation systems have to be drained down for the winter to avoid damage to the components and pipework? If not you can find out more on our winter shutdown post. The flip side of decommissioning a system in the autumn is that it needs restarting...