How it all started for
GardenonaRoll
Designer Gardens and the story so far
Antony Henn has been designing and creating amazing gardens since 1993. He and his family developed The Dutch Nursery in Hertfordshire selling plants and garden sundries through the eighties and nineties to this day.
Antony’s vast plant knowledge and experience has enabled him to present many gardening shows and hosts his own gardening phone-in with his brother Alex on the BBC.
“I have always tried to help people who know very little about plants to get the best out of their gardens. As a designer I have created many stunning gardens and always felt that lots of people would love to do it themselves but are too afraid to admit they know nothing about plants.
“Most people go to a garden centre and load their trolleys with what they think looks good, but when they get home they forget what they were told – planting them too close together and with no design theme or idea. The plants may grow but more often then not they are in the wrong place, may not have continuity of flowering and don’t necessarily compliment each other.
“Having heard many disaster stories of people wasting time and money, only to then totally losing interest in gardening, that’s when I thought of ‘GARDEN ON A ROLL’! How easy it would be if non-gardeners could use a template so they could guarantee success every time! The idea has progressed from there to where we are now and it’s really exciting!”
Garden on a Roll makes DIY gardening so much easier. We provide all the instructions and garden borders you need to make sure you can get your designer garden borders finished in no time.
GardenonaRoll Our First Exhibition
Our stand at our first exhibition - The Garden Media Guild press event in 2011
Our first exhibition was at The Garden Media Guild Press event in 2011.
GardenonaRoll The Edible Border
Antony Henn at the Garden on a Roll stand at the Edible Garden Show in Coventry, March 2012
In 2012 the Edible Border was launched and was shown at the Edible Garden show at Stoneleigh Park in Coventry in March 2012.
GardenonaRollGlee Exhibition, October 2011
Garden on a Roll exhibited at the Glee Exhibition in the NEC in Birmingham in October 2011.
Antony Henn and Richard Swinburne at the Glee Exhibition at the NEC in Birmingham, October 2011
GardenonaRoll Featured on Radio 2
Antony Henn (creative, flowery shirt!) and Mark Tideman (financial, less flowery shirt) brought in their brilliant botanic invention to the Chris Evans Show on Radio 2
Antony Henn and Mark Tydeman from Garden on a Roll were featured on the Chris Evan’s show on Radio 2 on Friday June 5th. Hear the interview below.
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Award-winning design
GardenonaRoll More pictures
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- Antony Henn answers listeners questions on a BBC Radio gardeners programme.
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- Antony Henn at the Garden on a Roll stand at the Edible Garden Show in Coventry, March 2012
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- Antony Henn and Richard Swinburne at the Glee Exhibition at the NEC in Birmingham, October 2011
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- Antony with daughters Amelia (painted face) and Flora (tiny) amongst some of our plants being grown by Isobel Barnes who runs ‘Waste not Want not’ a superb charity that helps young people by growing plants as therapy. The plants are great too!
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- Our stand at our first exhibition – The Garden Media Guild press event in 2011
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- Antony Henn and his brother Richard with business guru Gerry Robinson.
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- Antony unpacking his first delivery of young plants to be grown in Vital Earth peat free compost at their new nursery in Essex.
