eco-friendly
landscapes
everything you
need to make your
yard eco-friendly
everything you
need to make your yard
eco-friendly
Products, suppliers, contractors and more to make it easy for you to have a sustainable yard and life. All of these companies and products are ones I know and have worked with over the last couple of decades. I personally recommend each of them. I have also included business tools, personal services, wellness services and and my favourite things too - services and things I love that I want to share.
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Most of these suppliers paid to list here and some will send me a referral fee if you buy their products and services. It won’t cost you more (in fact, some of them will even give you a discount).
native plant suppliers
ALCLA Native Plants
ALCLA Native Plants is a nursery operating on Treaty 7 Territory and Metis District 4, in Carstairs, Alberta, that has promoted native plants since 1992. We specialize in native grasses, wildflowers, and shrubs.
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EcoLogic Horticulture
EcoLogic Horticulture is your trusted partner in horticultural products for low-input development and ecological restoration. As a leading supplier of native plants, seeds, green roof, and specialty horticultural items, we are committed to providing quality products and advice. Our horticultural products and practices aid in the acceleration of ecological restoration.
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Wild About Flowers
Wild About Flowers is a supplier of Native Perennial Wildflowers, Vines, Trees, and Shrubs from locally sourced seed collected from natural spaces in Alberta, and native grasses from the Prairie Provinces. Seeds and plugs can be shipped across Canada while potted stock is available for pick-up.
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alcla native plants
ALCLA Native Plants is a nursery operating on Treaty 7 Territory and Metis District 4, in Carstairs, Alberta, that has promoted native plants since 1992. We specialize in native grasses, wildflowers, and shrubs.
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ecologic
horticulture
EcoLogic Horticulture is your trusted partner in horticultural products for low-input development and ecological restoration. As a leading supplier of native plants, seeds, green roof, and specialty horticultural items, we are committed to providing quality products and advice. Our horticultural products and practices aid in the acceleration of ecological restoration.
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Wild About Flowers
Wild About Flowers is a supplier of Native Perennial Wildflowers, Vines, Trees, and Shrubs from locally sourced seed collected from natural spaces in Alberta, and native grasses from the Prairie Provinces. Seeds and plugs can be shipped across Canada while potted stock is available for pick-up.
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materials suppliers
Western Canada Garden Soil
Western Canada Garden Soil is a family
operated business supplying homeowners and landscape professionals with locally-sourced, ecologically-friendly garden soil, mulch & compost. All of our products are available for delivery to Calgary and the surrounding area. Use the code EFL 5 to get 5% off products. Delivery charges not included in promotion.
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Eagle Lake Landscape Supply
Eagle Lake Professional Landscape Supply is Calgary and Southern Alberta’s top choice for professional-grade landscaping supplies including soil, sod and bulk. With industry-leading products and a passionate team of experts, we are continually innovating to deliver the best service and experience possible.
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western canada garden soil
operated business supplying homeowners and landscape professionals with locally-sourced, ecologically-friendly garden soil, mulch & compost. All of our products are available for delivery to Calgary and the surrounding area. Use the code EFL 5 to get 5% off products. Delivery charges not included in promotion.
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Eagle Lake Landscape Supply
Eagle Lake Professional Landscape Supply is Calgary and Southern Alberta’s top choice for professional-grade landscaping supplies including soil, sod and bulk.
With industry-leading products and a passionate team of experts, we are continually innovating to deliver the best service and experience possible.
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contractors
Here are full-service contractors I know and trust. They will do a great job of installing your eco-friendly landscape.
They have extensive experience and great reputations with clients and in the landscaping community. I would trust them to do work in my Mom's yard.
These folks get the job done beautifully and will serve you well.
landscape contractors
paradise
landscape
Thomas Sharuga of Paradise Landscape installs our designs for clients. Paradise Landscape has been creating outdoor spaces since 2011 and specializes in patios, retaining walls, decks, pergolas, fences, and plant material installation. Their respectful, knowledgeable and hardworking team makes us a sustainable landscaping construction leader.
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green t
designs
Green T Design is Alberta's first design/build contractor dedicated to ecological landscapes and living architecture. Their small team of passionate and creative individuals has a shared goal of reducing environmental harms. They strive to enhance the social and biophilic capacity of our communities while improving health and biodiversity.
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paradise
landscape
Thomas Sharuga of Paradise Landscape installs our designs for clients. Paradise Landscape has been creating outdoor spaces since 2011 and specializes in patios, retaining walls, decks, pergolas, fences, and plant material installation. Their respectful, knowledgeable and hardworking team makes us a sustainable landscaping construction leader.
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green t
design
Green T Design is Alberta's first design/build contractor dedicated to ecological landscapes and living architecture. Their small team of passionate and creative individuals has a shared goal of reducing environmental harms. They strive to enhance the social and biophilic capacity of our communities while improving health and biodiversity.
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Small-scale landscape contractors
chelsea's garden soil-utions
For the past 20 years Chelsie and her teams have been transforming yards using her philosophy of gardening naturally and working with nature. With over 150 clients they continue to expand and grow, creating beautiful and harmonious spaces wherever they go. Chelsea was also a regular contributor to CTV Calgary’s morning show.
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bloom culture
Bloom Culture specializes in ornamental horticulture and softscaping, revitalizing existing landscapes, and offering seasonal container subscriptions, Bloom Culture is a one-stop floral hub with a strong, dedicated team ready to bring your vision to life. Love the spaces you’re in and live beautifully!
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chelsea's garden
soil-utions
For the past 20 years Chelsie and her teams have been transforming yards using her philosophy of gardening naturally and working with nature. With over 150 clients they continue to expand and grow, creating beautiful and harmonious spaces wherever they go. Chelsea was also a regular contributor to CTV Calgary’s morning show.
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bloom
culture
Bloom Culture specializes in ornamental horticulture and softscaping, revitalizing existing landscapes, and offering seasonal container subscriptions, Bloom Culture is a one-stop floral hub with a strong, dedicated team ready to bring your vision to life. Love the spaces you’re in and live beautifully!
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arborists
The Arborest Expert Tree Service ltd.
Since 1979, The Arborest Expert Tree Service Ltd. has been dedicated to providing a wide range of tree and shrub services. We provide services for commercial, residential and multi-unit residential properties in Calgary and surrounding area. We employ and train certified arborists who can confidently assist you with your tree care needs.
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Tundra Tree Care
Tundra Tree Care is committed to the highest standard of customer care in the tree industry. Specializing in tree pruning, removal, fertilizing and stump grinding.
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The Arborest Expert Tree Service ltd.
Since 1979, The Arborest Expert Tree Service Ltd. has been dedicated to providing a wide range of tree and shrub services. We provide services for commercial, residential and multi-unit residential properties in Calgary and surrounding area. We employ and train certified arborists who can confidently assist you with your tree care needs.
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tundra tree
care
Tundra Tree Care is committed to the highest standard of customer care in the tree industry. Specializing in tree pruning, removal, fertilizing and stump grinding.
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laureen's
favourite things
health & wellness
body wisdom tree
Balance your health by getting an assessment of your body’s health and stresses with the Meridian Stress Assessment System. Body Wisdom Tree helps you understand your body’s stresses and guides your journey to wellness with bio-feedback of your meridians and custom homeopathic remedies.
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Biodynamic Craniosacral therapy
Biodynamic Craniosacral Therapy is a physical therapy that palpates places of health and tension. With a calm, gentle touch, a sense of safety is fostered, allowing the nervous system to attune to calm and stillness. Tension patterns, originating from stressful or traumatic experiences, soften and energy flows more freely.
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body wisdom tree
Balance your health by getting an assessment of your body’s health and stresses with the Meridian Stress Assessment System. Body Wisdom Tree helps you understand your body’s stresses and guides your journey to wellness with bio-feedback of your meridians and custom homeopathic remedies.
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biodynamic craniosacral therapy
Biodynamic Craniosacral Therapy is a physical therapy that palpates places of health and tension. With a calm, gentle touch, a sense of safety is fostered, allowing the nervous system to attune to calm and stillness. Tension patterns, originating from stressful or traumatic experiences, soften and energy flows more freely.
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Personal service providers
Roberto’s Hair Studio
Styling Calgarians’ hair for 15 years and in the industry for 25, Nicole’s wealth of knowledge and expertise leaves Guests coming back for more. She enjoys creating colours, highlighted with dimension; precision or textured cuts and perms. Looking and feeling your best is Nicole’s mission. She has cut my Mom and my hair for years and we love what she does.
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Big mood craft beer stumptown JOMO, kale chips fingerstache pitchfork green juice. Actually marxism fanny pack food truck pug Brooklyn cold-pressed godard. VHS letterpress hella Brooklyn health goth irony, kale chips stumptown kogi. Gastropub fingerstache adaptogen intelligentsia 3 wolf moon.IPhone chia shabby chic vegan.
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roberto’s hair studio
Styling Calgarians’ hair for 15 years and in the industry for 25, Nicole’s wealth of knowledge and expertise leaves Guests coming back for more. She enjoys creating colours, highlighted with dimension; precision or textured cuts and perms. Looking and feeling your best is Nicole’s mission. She has cut my Mom and my hair for years and we love what she does.
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Education
calgary horticulture society
The Calgary Horticultural Society's mission is to encourage gardening for the enhancement of our environment and quality of life. Our mandate is to educate, promote, and support gardening in the Calgary area. We offer educational opportunities to help gardeners be successful growers in Calgary's unique environment.
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Urban Farm School
Urban Farm School is a Calgary-based skill-building hub for learning sustainable urban homesteading strategies, permaculture and resilience skills. Through workshops we inform, inspire, empower, share skills & knowledge and build meaningful and collaborative relationships.
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Calgary Horticultural Society
The Calgary Horticultural Society's mission is to encourage gardening for the enhancement of our environment and quality of life. Our mandate is to educate, promote, and support gardening in the Calgary area. We offer educational opportunities to help gardeners be successful growers in Calgary's unique environment.
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urban farm
school
Urban Farm School is a Calgary-based skill-building hub for learning sustainable urban homesteading strategies, permaculture and resilience skills. Through workshops we inform, inspire, empower, share skills & knowledge and build meaningful and collaborative relationships.
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business services
curator luxury web design
Lauren is the wonderful creator of the new Eco-Friendly Landscapes brand and website. She provides elevated digital design and marketing services for businesses ready to live the dream.
Your website should work as hard as you do. Lauren's websites look beautiful and are packed full of strategic marketing goodness to get you booked.
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showit website and blog
A really easy to use website design and hosting platform. Especially easy to update and change - just drag and drop. This professional, custom website was designed using Showit.
Subscriptions start at $19 USD/month, billed yearly. You get a free month and so do I.
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flodesk email marketing
Beautiful emails easily. This email marketing program, founded by women, is easy to use and, according to my web designer Lauren, has the best features and pricing in the market. They have great support and training too. There is a free plan available and I use a paid plan. With this code you get 50% off and I get $19.
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curator luxury web design
Lauren is the wonderful creator of the new Eco-Friendly Landscapes brand and website. She provides elevated digital design and marketing services for businesses ready to live the dream.
Lauren is currently offering pay-what-you-can, pay-when-you can pricing to Calgary businesses who are making a difference.
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showit website and blog
A really easy to use website design and hosting platform. Especially easy to update and change - just drag and drop. This professional, custom website was designed using Showit.
Subscriptions start at $19 USD/month, billed yearly. You get a free month and so do I.
get one month FREE
flodesk email marketing
Beautiful emails easily. This email marketing program, founded by women, is easy to use and, according to my web designer Lauren, has the best features and pricing in the market. They have great support and training too. There is a free plan available and I use a paid plan. With this code you get 50% off and I get $19.
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laureen's products
eco-yards
book
Laureen shares how to design, install and maintain eco-friendly yards in this visionary and encouraging paperback book.
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eco-yards: how to build them
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.
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Poster of Micro-organisms in the Soil
A unique full-colour illustration showing soil micro-organisms and how they interact with the soil and plants. Hi-resolution PDF download.
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heal your soul; reclaim your life
Laureen Rama shares her wealth of experience on how to heal yourself using shamanic wisdom on this audio download.
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drums for the shaman
A recording of Laureen drumming to transport you on shamanic journeys, available as an audio download.
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our owner & lead designer
introducing
laureen rama
eco-friendly landscaping pioneer, expert, and business owner for 18 years
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.
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how to achieve a pleasing colour palette throughout the year
In this article, Laureen shares how to design your garden beds so they are a changing symphony of colour all year-round.
How to make your eco-friendly landscape child-friendly
Laureen describes ways that you can make your yard a fun sanctuary, play space and learning laboratory for children.
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how to optimize the use of rainwater in your eco-friendly landscape
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.
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how to support the well-being of essential local pollinators
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.
best practices for maintaining your eco-friendly, water-wise landscaping
Maintaining your eco-friendly yard can be easy and not much work if you follow the practices Laureen shares in this article.
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landscape design and installation
from $9950
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.
landscape
design
FROM $600
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!
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on-site eco-friendly landscaping consultation
on-site eco-friendly landscaping consultation
$250
per 1.5 hours
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.
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rainwater management design with optional installation
FROM $250
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.
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rain barrel or
rain tank
installation
Pricing varies by system
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.
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rain barrel
or
rain tank
installation
we take our role in creating a healthy future for our children and the world seriously
that's why we place Sustainability at the heart of everything we do
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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DESIGNED WITH LOVE BY CURATOR
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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