We’re all hoping for a nice summer, which we well deserve after the horrible winter we had. In order to make the most of your time outdoors, we highly recommend installing underground irrigation. Calgary has a tendency to be dry during the summer months, and nobody wants to drag around hoses, trying to keep lawns…
If it’s not one thing, it’s the other when it comes to property maintenance and landscaping in Calgary. We’ve just finished dealing with an epidemic of ice dams, and now lots of us are facing yet another problem. Most of the snow is finally gone, but of course the weather gods can’t let us start…
Although at the beginning of this week we saw what will hopefully be the final dump of snow we have to suffer through this season, it doesn’t mean it’s too early to start thinking about scheduling your spring underground irrigation maintenance with Mirage Landscaping of Calgary. The temperatures have been warming up (slowly), which means…
Could it possibly be true? Could the end of Calgary’s interminable winter finally be in sight? With temperatures predicted to be consistently above zero for the rest of the month we all may be finally able to get outside and start enjoying the weather. We deserve every minute we get to spend in the sun…
It’s been a long, snowy winter in Calgary, and the forecast says we’re not out of the woods yet. Weather predictions are calling for a cold Easter weekend with yes, even more snow. Spring in Calgary can be a cruel game, when we are all teased by short spells of nice weather broken up by…
There is still a lot of snow on the ground, but hopefully in the very near future we’ll be able to start getting out into our yards and properties to perform some spring clean-up and maintenance. As seasoned Calgary landscaping professionals, we know that this is the ideal time of year to give your trees…
So much snow has fallen in Calgary this winter that all of the city’s winter storage sites are so full the snow that it is not likely to completely melt until fall, according to this article by the CBC. More than 140 centimetres (55 inches) has come down since October, much of which has been…
Retaining walls are attractive additions to a yard or business property that not only add visual appeal, they can save a ton of time in landscape maintenance and a lot of money in water and upkeep. We at Mirage Landscaping have been building and installing retaining walls in Calgary for three generations now, and we…
It’s starting to warm up just a bit in Calgary (hooray!), but a couple of moderate days aren’t nearly enough to get rid of the 36 centimetres of snow that has fallen in just February alone. Since November we have seen a whopping 109 centimetres of snow in the city, which explains the huge windrows…
More than 40 centimetres of snow fell in parts of Calgary over the weekend, with everyone in the city seeing 20 centimetres or more. It was so bad Deerfoot Trail was shut down – both ways – for several hours on February 2, which is unheard of in Calgary’s recent history. It’s been a hairy…