Rundle Wood Gardens is a small speciality nursery in Calgary, Alberta Canada.

Pictures of our garden (click on an image to see an enlarge view)

Bog Garden Early June First rockgarden and Arbour mid-June Second Rock Garden Mid-June View of yard Mid-September A Selection of Peonies growing under Elms Late May

The nursery, which was created in 1996, grew out of our avid (some would say obsessed!) interest in plants. We have been gardening in Calgary for about 20 years in different locations in the inner city. We are always experimenting with new varieties of plants and new species to see how well they do in our gardens. Every year we plant up to 200 new varieties to trial.

Our lot is a large (about 1/4 acre), pie shaped property with several mature trees on it. The property has Elms, mountain ash, weeping birch, clump birch, apples, and a couple of full size spruce trees. They are all about 40 years old. After buying the property in the fall of 1991 we began removing the turf. As of this past fall (2000) the last of the sod disappeared and the yard is now various types of gardens with rundle stone pathways throughout. Our front garden (north-facing) consists of a woodland/shade garden. It has several deciduous trees, dwarf conifers, and ferns, Hosta, spring blooming bulbs and lots of other treasures (about 300 varieties of plants). The back gardens consist of 2 rock/crevice gardens, 1 rock wall, a bog/wet bed in full sun, and several general perennial beds in full sun to partial shade. Among our interests are hardy, small flowered clematis (such as the Alpina's, Macropetala's, and Viticella's), dwarf conifers, species peonies, alpines and rock garden plants.

Dates and Hours of Operation:
We are open Thursdays and Sundays from the first week in May to mid-September. Our hours are 11:00 AM to 4:00 PM . We are available at other times by appointment.
For exact Open Garden dates for 2008 view our Calendar for 2008

Catalogue:
If you wish to receive a copy of our catalogue, which will come out in early April, please Contact Us. The catalogue contains descriptions of the plants that we plan on having for sale. Also it will have a calendar of our open day schedule with address and phone number. When you receive your catalogue you can call and reserve plants. When they come in we will put them aside for you to pick up at your convenience.

At this time we have no plans to do mail-order.

Published Articles:
Rundle Wood Gardens has been featured in:
Canadian Gardening (the magazine as well as the television program),
Gardens West and
The Gardener for the Prairies Magazines.
Look at a list of the issues we are found in.

During the summer of 2001 we attended a conference put on by the International Clematis Society in Portland Oregon. While there we were able to visit the collection of Brewster Rogerson. Here are a few pictures from our visit to his greenhouse. If you would like further information about Brewster Rogerson and his collection you check out Barry Glick's article on Brewster Rogerson.

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