

Planting and Pruning
When creating a planting guide for your space, we consider a variety of important factors—such as your hardiness zone, sunlight exposure, watering needs, and desired maintenance level. If you’re looking for more information about the plants we offer, or need pruning and watering guides for plants already in your garden, explore the collection below.
What are "Plant Hardiness Zones"
Canadian Plant Hardiness Zones were developed in the 1960s using a mathematical formula based on long-term climate data. This data includes factors such as temperature, wind, rainfall, snowfall, frost, and other environmental conditions. The resulting map helps Canadian growers determine which plants are most likely to thrive in their region.
Most of the Central Alberta areas we service fall within Zones 3b and 4a. Choosing plants that are well suited to these zones is an important part of planning a successful garden. However, hardiness zones are only one piece of the puzzle. Watering practices, fertilization, sunlight exposure, and shelter from wind can all have a significant impact on a plant’s ability to grow and thrive—factors that are largely within your control.
As a general rule, the hardiness zone map should be used as a starting point to help guide the process of selecting the best plants for your garden.
Karl Foerster Grass

This grass performs well in a wide range of climates, remains attractive for months on end, and is not invasive in any way. Clumps are strongly upright, with dark green leaves. Soft feathery green plumes appear in summer, maturing into stiff wheat-coloured spikes, which last into winter. May be used in large groupings towards the back of a border, but also very effective when used more as a single specimen
Hosta

They’re one of Canada’s favourite perennials for 3 good reasons: they’re low maintenance, totally rock in the shade, and have more elegance in one leaf than most perennials have in their whole plant.The lighter colour the foliage is, the more sun your hosta needs. Deep, dark foliage keeps its colour best in more shade while variegated types need more sun to keep crisp contrast.
Globe Blue Spruce

Small, dense globe-shaped shrub has a mounded form that forms a compact and dense shape as it matures. The globe spruce is a dense multi-stemmed evergreen shrub with a distinctive and refined form. The attractive blue foliage remains through winter and new growth emerges silvery-blue in spring
Spring Snow Crabapple

A highly regarded ornamental tree just covered in snowy white flowers in spring, a hardy fruitless variety with a tightly oval habit of growth; makes a beautiful accent in the front yard, very clean and tidy, needs well-drained soil and full sun. This tree should only be grown in full sunlight. It prefers to grow in average to moist conditions, and shouldn't be allowed to dry out.
Catmint

Aside from being a beautiful ornamental plant, it can also help your garden thrive by attracting butterflies and repelling pests. Additionally, catmint has had an extensive history of being a household herbal remedy. Its delicious minty taste makes it great to use in cooking but also to repel mosquitos.

















