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When you are gardening in Calgary, there are a few things that need to be taken into account the short summer season, the Chinooks and the cold weather in the winter. Due to this, there are some special considerations to make when planning out your garden.

First of all, how much work do you want to put into your garden? As with most things, you can make it high maintenance, or you can make it a simple garden, which doesn’t need much attention from you to keep things happy and healthy.

Make sure to take your lifestyle into account when you are deciding on this. All this at some point just becomes a matter of preference.

You can easily plant annuals, perennials, a variety of trees and fruits, and many other items, such as roses.

Something like a Calgary Carpet Juniper may be a great item to put in your garden as it retains its leaves in the winter, which gives you color and interest when your yard is covered in white.

Another consideration is the hardiness of the plants you are purchasing. You can determine this by knowing the hardiness region that you live in, which is 3B in Calgary, meaning that the temperatures can get as low as -37C in the winter.

Books and catalogues sometimes use different charts to map out different regions, so make sure you check each one to make sure you are purchasing the current plants for your zone.

As a result, when buying your plants, make sure you ask the supplier the best way to protect these throughout the winter as you are Calgary gardening.

If you are investing the time and money in a plant, you want to do whatever you can to make sure it survives the winter.

Such preparations may include covering your plants with mulch or fabric. You definitely want to make sure to do this as you want to protect your investment.

When planning the garden, make sure that you take into account proper spacing.

In 10-year time, you don’t want to have to be transplanting, or pulling out a tree, because it spread further than expected and can no longer grow.

Your plant should come with instructions to assist you with this.

While planning your garden, you want to make sure that the plants you get will serve the purpose you want them to. If you want only a sea of colorful flowers, you will want to avoid the Calgary Carpet Juniper, as it will give you a low, crawling green plant. But if your plans include a quiet, natural garden with lots of ground coverage, the juniper may be what you want.

When planning out your garden, you will want to take into consideration when the various plants will be blooming and showing off their full colors. You don’t want everything to bloom at once, and then nothing for the rest of the summer.

It is fully possible to have a lovely and wonderful garden while in Calgary. It may take a bit of planning beforehand to make sure that you accomplish what you want, but it will be worth it when you are able to enjoy it.

Written by:
Custom Stone and Waterscapes
3829 Parkhill Place Southwest, Calgary, AB T2S 2W6
(403)870-1142

Gardens Calgary, Calgary Ponds, Calgary Landscape, Calgary Landscape Design

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