A livable yard that invites you to be outside often includes a patio and pathways. Examples using brick and natural flagstone are shown here. With brick, many colours, patterns and textures are available. We source Canadian-made bricks, many of them made right near Calgary. The flagstone we use is also local, from Alberta or neighbouring provinces or states and there are many colour options in flagstone too.
Laureen Rama has been an eco-friendly landscaping pioneer, expert, and business owner in the Calgary area for over 18 years.
She is renowned for her extensive knowledge of local plants, particularly with respect to flowers, and for designing yards that are both beautiful and colourful all year round.
Laureen is also known for listening deeply to hear clients’ concerns and desires. She gently helps clients determine which plants and features would best suit their desires, lifestyles, and budgets.
Laureen leads a team of exceptional landscape designers and partners. She makes a point to ensure that she is present for all initial in-person consultations and personally oversees each design.
Laureen continues to be an industry pioneer by emphasizing sustainability in her designs and partnering with contractors who share her values and commitments about regenerating the natural world through eco-friendly urban landscaping.
In this article, Laureen shares how to design your garden beds so they are a changing symphony of colour all year-round.
Laureen describes ways that you can make your yard a fun sanctuary, play space and learning laboratory for children.
Rainwater can be saved in many ways. Your yard can be designed to optimize the use of your rainwater to minimize the need for watering.
Ideas and resources you can use to support pollinators in your yard. Become a part of a world-wide movement to restore food and habitat for these essential beings.
Maintaining your eco-friendly yard can be easy and not much work if you follow the practices Laureen shares in this article.
Our expert team will create a custom landscape design according to your specifications. We will ensure that your design is both easy to maintain and will provide you with year-round beauty. We will then match you with a full-service contractor who best fits you and the requirements of your landscape design to install your project.
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Projects with budgets less than $9950 will be evaluated on a case-by-case basis. We may do the design or we will match you with reputable contractors to do the design and installation.
Our expert team will create a custom landscape design according to your specifications. With 18 years experience designing and installing yards in Calgary, we know what works best here. We will ensure that your yard is both easy to maintain and will provide you with year-round beauty.
Your yard will be functional, water-wise, and a delight to you and your neighbours!
Laureen, and usually a team member, visit your yard to meet with you and provide useful advice on whatever concerns you have for your yard. We can provide sketches, suggest where you can get the materials you may need to implement the suggestions, and generally encourage you to make the most of your yard.
Our expert team will design a system to best manage rainwater in your yard. We can provide installation too if you need that, with one of our team or through matching you with a contractor.
We offer rain barrel and rain tank installation. This is to make it easy to collect and use rainwater for your gardens. With climate change creating drought conditions more often, it is more likely that we will have outdoor watering restrictions as we are now experiencing in Calgary.
Laureen shares how to design, install and maintain eco-friendly yards in this visionary and encouraging paperback book.
Over one weekend, Laureen’s crew transformed a small front lawn into an eco-friendly yard. Learn how to do it yourself in this video download.
A unique full-colour illustration showing soil micro-organisms and how they interact with the soil and plants. Hi-resolution PDF download.
Laureen Rama shares her wealth of experience on how to heal yourself using shamanic wisdom on this audio download.
A recording of Laureen drumming to transport you on shamanic journeys, available as an audio download.
We partner with Bullfrog Power to keep our business as net-zero as we can for carbon emissions. We purchase the highest quality carbon offsets available in Canada from Bullfrog Power for our transportation use. We also purchase Bullfrog renewable energy certificates equal to our home office use of electricity and natural gas. Bullfrog’s green electricity comes from a blend of wind, solar, and low-impact hydro power sourced from new Canadian renewable energy facilities. Bullfrog’s green natural gas comes from organic waste at a landfill.
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She transformed my boring lawn
into an interesting, creative
and functional garden which
beautifully displays native plants.
- todd -
Laureen clearly loves her work. She is creative, listens carefully, asks good
questions, and has a light and pleasant touch with advice.
- pat -
I continued getting compliments about how great my front yard looks, so I hired laureen again this past spring to landscape my backyard!
- ken -
Our garden is low maintenance and attractive, with different shrubs and perennials flowering throughout
spring and summer.
- catherine and hans -
I love the installed design, from the rock river to the type, variety, and placement of the plants. Laureen was great to work with throughout the whole process!
- carol -
Me and gardening don’t go together. It has been an excellent move to use Laureen’s services. She is patient, calm, and very knowledgeable.
- line -
Laureen and her crew have always been conscientious and accommodating
...not easy things to accomplish in the landscaping field.
- jan and jacques -
“We brag about how quick and easy it is [to look after]. You developed a plan that met all of our needs and wants.”
Ryan l.
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