SOUTHAMPTON-based Ruscrete opened its new landscaping showroom in style with BBC gardening expert Bob Flowerdew on hand to perform the ceremony and host a question time session for visitors.

The new 800 sq m purpose-built facility, part of a £2m investment programme houses a new showroom, tea room and offices for the company.

Managing director Russell Price-Lloyd said the Totton firm prides itself on offering one of the most extensive range of landscaping services in the country and now has the right environment for customers to browse in comfort.

"Landscape House features a vast array of products from water displays to paving as well as giving visitors a history of landscaping," he said.

The new facility completes the Ruscrete Landscape Design Centre which also features a number of garden sets, designed to demonstrate the variety of ways Ruscrete can create a garden.

"These new facilities enable us to display our products creatively and helps customers visualise how they can be used in their own gardens," he said.

"Its an entirely new way of shopping for your garden."

Set up nearly 40 years ago Ruscrete remains a family run business selling products from as far afield as China and India.