The Blue Grass Blog

Plants are our passion, we're great at gardening and we absolutely love landscaping. We want to share that with you so read on to learn.

As the Temperature Rises

With some summer sun finally in the forecast, it’s a good time to take another stroll through the garden and get started on some mid-summer garden maintenance. Flowerpots and containers will likely need a good deadheading or trimming if they are starting to look a little overgrown, leggy or have fewer flowers. Deadheading of certain […]

As The Season Turns

Following a beautiful weekend among the fall colours of Banff, I was certainly not prepared to see the snow that had befallen us overnight here in Calgary. I am sure that I’m not alone in not being ready for winter and still have plenty to accomplish in the yard before it’s ready to be put […]

Seasonal Offerings

How quickly we are back among the late summer, early fall days of our short garden season. A cool and wet spring led the way to the record breaking temperatures that we are still experiencing. The lack of late season rain is showing on many a garden, park and landscape. Trees are yellowing early and […]

Hazy Days of Summer

Call them lazy or hazy days of summer, we’ve been enjoying plenty of good summer heat this season. Unfortunately, our hazy days are due to the BC wild fires, as along with the warm weather our natural landscapes are susceptible to high fire hazard. Please be extra careful and pay attention to fire bans and […]

Garden Season in Full Swing

Finally, we’re into the full swing of the garden season! Mother Nature was sure slow to get us started this year, impatient gardeners everywhere are now well into getting gardens planted, creating beautiful patio containers and tending to perennial and shrub beds. Weeding, watering and adding plants has become part of daily routine. Watching skies […]

April Showers Bring May Flowers

Let’s hope that all our recent moisture in April will produce fantastic floral results. Leaf and flowers buds are lying in wait, ready for some warm temperatures to burst into botanical beauty. All of us are itching to get into our gardens and start cleaning, creating and growing. Our Greenhouse, Garden Centre and Tree and […]

Hopping Into Spring

Wow, suddenly spring is upon us! With a bit of a later start than last year, signs of spring are showing up all at once. Prairie crocuses are waking up among the dead grasses in various parks around Calgary, trees are quickly budding up, tulips and spring bulbs are well on their way and temperatures […]