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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.
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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