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Adding colour with shade Perennials

Adding Colour with Shade Perennials It’s no surprise that gardening here in Calgary can prove challenging. Our winters are longer than we’d like, and it seems like summers are fleeting...

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Pre-Spring Planning

Calgary has had a long and cold winter. The calendar has finally turned to April, and many of us are dreaming of warmer days and the chance to get outside...

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Tips to Build a Better Berm

If you’re dealing with a tabula rasa (a blank slate) on your landscaping project, you’ll likely want to install berms or undulations in your landscape. But that’s easier said than done! You’ll need to plan the design of your berms and undulations before you implement them. And design requires some foresight. So here are a few berm design and building tips! Location,...

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Tips For Building a Beautiful Patio

If you love being outdoors as much as we do, then you love time spent out on the patio, porch, or deck. Whatever you call it, that outdoor domain is the perfect hangout. If you’re building a deck, or adding on to a preexisting structure, you can get creative! Here are a couple of deck features you might consider, thanks to Calgary...

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Things To Do To Prep for Winter

Well folks, autumn is right around the corner, and the turning of the seasons marks a change in the way we ought to be working around the garden! Here are a few things to do as fall rolls around in order to get your Calgary-area landscape prepped for winter: Plant New Evergreen Plants Evergreen plants and trees are hardy green fellas year-round....

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Native Perennials Are Ideal in an Alberta Landscape!

If you’re looking for the right perennials for your Calgary landscaping, you should consider perennials native to Calgary and Alberta. Perennials that are native here are most likely to survive. These plants are used to the cold snap of winter, and the highs of summer. Of course, Calgary Plants is your online and in-store source for local native plants! Let’s go over...

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How To Organize Your Landscape with Our Plants

Sure, our garden centre, Calgary Plants, offers landscaping services and landscaping consultation - but there are plenty do-it-yourselfers who love to design their own landscapes. If you’re looking into tackling a new landscaping project, you’ll need to give some serious thought about how to organize your plants and trees! Here are a few things you might consider before implementing a design… Watering Consider how...

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