Southern Alberta is dry, windy, and beautiful.
For fifty years we’ve built gardens that belong here — stone, water, and patience. Japanese rock gardens, ponds and low-water yards, family-owned in Lethbridge since 1976.
A garden here is a walk. Take this one.
The practiceFifty years of stone, water, and patience.
Southern Alberta Rock Gardens has been a family firm since 1976 — five decades of Japanese-inspired rock gardens, ponds, waterfalls and retaining walls, built one yard at a time under the same idea: honouring tradition through modern design.
Junji Kuno still runs it the way it started — small, careful, and in person. The point was never more lawns. It was better ground.
“We are always trying to show people what they can do with their yard, especially low-maintenance yard, because everyone is so busy.”— Junji Kuno · Lethbridge Herald, March 2026
The climateThe city is asking for the yard we’ve always built.
A rock garden isn’t a look here. It’s the yard that fits a semi-desert — less turf to water, less to mow, more that survives August on its own. We’ve been building it since before it had a policy.
The workStone, water, wood — built for this wind.
- Japanese rock gardens design & build
- Ponds & waterfalls design & build
- Retaining walls stone & block
- Patios, decks & fences build
- Low-water yard conversions lawn to stone
- Sprinklers install & fall winterization
The proofFifty years.
Forty shows.
One civic garden.
Your yardNow walk yours.
A consultation here is a walk — around your yard, with the people who’ve been reading this ground for fifty years. Tell us what the yard does now, and what you wish it did. We’ll tell you what the stone can do.
Southern Alberta Rock Gardens & Landscaping Ltd.834 10 St S, Lethbridge, Alberta
403-634-3105 · junjikuno@gmail.com