From Commercial Landscape Maintenance, to large scale Landscape Construction projects you can count on Calgary’s best landscapers Mirage Landscaping!
Commercial and residential clients of Mirage Landscaping services receive the benefit of our three generations worth of experience working in Calgary. Over the years, we have developed a specialized landscaping schedule that we know helps lawns and gardens grow and develop each year, even through whatever a Calgary summer can throw at us. It remains…
Landscaping for businesses is a large part of what we do at Mirage. We like to design low-maintenance, yet attractive landscapes for the companies we work with so that you can put your best face forward no matter what time of year. Commercial landscaping can help build your business’s reputation as a welcoming place that…
The pandemic has caused us all to appreciate our outdoor spaces even more, and the City of Calgary is looking to add even more green to the grid. Right now, our urban forest accounts for about 8.25% of the canopy level. This way of measuring uses aerial views to compare how much coverage there is…
After an absolutely beautiful weekend with Calgary setting a new record daytime high on Sunday, March has provided perfectly pleasant temperatures so far. The warm weather does mean we’re well into the messy phase of the winter melt, however. There are still stubborn patches of dirty snow in shady areas, thick ice that refuses to…
For many years, the areas alongside roads, power lines, transmission lines, and pipelines have been mown short and sprayed with pesticides. We are all used to seeing these areas neat and trim, but the truth is that there really is not a need for it, and the practice has actually greatly reduced habitat for pollinating…
We’ve talked about a lot of different ways that you can spruce up your outdoor living space over the years, and many of them are catching on as the legitimate landscaping trends. For us, this is great news, because a lot of these options are not only attractive and versatile (and enjoyable to design and…
We have officially survived a serious deep freeze, with Calgary breaking dozens of weather records over 10 brutally cold days. According to Environment Canada meteorologist Dan Kulak in a Feb. 15 Calgary Herald article, Calgary hits minus 30.8 degrees Celsius on Feb. 11, which made it the fifth coldest Feb. 11 the city has ever…
Calgary has seen a fair accumulation of snowfall over the past few days, with more than 15 centimetres falling over just a few days. There were a number of accidents last week, plus many stuck vehicles once again. We attack our snow removal services a little differently when we know a lot of snow is…
Overall, it’s been a very mild winter in Calgary, but the temperatures have dropped over the past few days. In addition to the added chill, enough snow has fallen recently to have us out doing regular snow removal again on top of our maintenance and inspection rounds. There will be about another week of temperatures…
It is already four weeks past the massive snowfall of Dec. 22, which blanketed the city with accumulations of from 20 to 40 centimetres of heavy, soupy snow that doesn’t seem to be going away anytime soon. It’s been tough on everyone, but there is one particular group that has been particularly disadvantaged. When roads…