As a business owner or manager, outsources services just makes good business sense in many cases. It is very rare that any company does everything in house! Calgary’s Mirage Landscaping specializes in commercial property caretaking, and your business’ routine lawn and garden maintenance is our priority. Do You Need Us? The landscaping of your company’s…
With spring approaching, if you have an underground sprinkler system for your commercial or residential Calgary area property give us a call at Mirage Landscaping to give it a thorough systems check before you turn it on. You can add this request to our spring clean up service for you ultimate convenience. If you don’t have an irrigation…
After all of the hard work we have put in on snow removal this winter, we here at Mirage Landscaping, your premier commercial and residential landscaping design and maintenance firm in Calgary, are ready to turn the page on this season. As we work outdoors all year long, we are definitely ready for spring to come. Are…
Groundhog Day, which occurred in both Canada and the United States on February 2, was one of the few lighthearted moments in what has turned out to be a very long winter. The consensus of the three major groundhog weather forecasters we are aware of, Ontario’s Wiarton Willie, Nova Scotia’s Shubenacadie Sam, and Pennsylvania’s Punxsutawney Phil, had a…
Looking around the neighbourhoods of Calgary, as we do daily, it’s absolutely amazing that there are still many mounds of snow piled up that came from the storms of December. Frankly, it has meant a lot of long days of snow removal for us here at Mirage Landscaping, and we also feel for everyone confronted by the record…
Last week in our series on proper disposal methods for snow we discussed just how dirty snow can get, and how getting rid of it can become a problem during years of heavy accumulation. As a matter of fact, so much snow fell during December of last year that the regular snow disposal locations in…
When snow piles up fresh, pristine and white, it looks clean enough to eat. And for the most part, it is! But common airborne pollutants eventually fall to the ground, which snow begins to gather and absorb after just a short while. Even though it may still look clean, snow can actually be very, very…
Thus far this winter we’ve seen some pretty extreme weather in Calgary. At Mirage Landscaping, your premier landscaping design and snow removal company, we know that this isn’t the time of year you would usually think about your retaining wall, but the winter is when that wall is at its most vulnerable. As you know, our…
Unless you want to become a winter recluse or shut-in, eventually you are going to have to get brave and attempt to walk around through Calgary’s ice and snow. Winter trekking need not be a daunting task…it just requires a little forethought that summer living doesn’t. At Mirage Landscaping, Calgary’s most well-known commercial and residential landscaping…
At Mirage Landscaping, your full-service landscaping design, maintenance and snow removal company, even with over three generations of service to our Calgary clients, we haven’t seen many winters kick off like this one. December brought record snowfall amounts and biting cold arctic temperatures we just don’t get every winter. In fact, isolated parts of the…