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Keeping Your Yard Beautiful into Autumn - Five Star Landscaping - Landscaping Experts Calgary - Featured Image

Keeping Your Yard Beautiful into Autumn

Over winter, many Calgary yards lose much of their curb appeal. Often, landscaping design and details will focus solely on creating a beautiful oasis throughout spring and summer, leaving autumn forgotten and winter barren and dreary. But lifeless, dormant yards aren’t an inevitable reality of fall in Calgary. Working with the right Calgary landscaping team, […]

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Dethatching or Aeration? - Five Star Landscaping - Landscaping Experts Calgary

Dethatching or Aeration?

With summer well underway, your lawn may already be beginning to droop. In Alberta, it’s not unusual for the hot, dry weather to turn your lawn brown and dormant after just a few short weeks of green. While this summer has offered lots of rain so far, it’s not unlikely that we’ll see drought conditions […]

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Low-Maintenance Landscaping Ideas - Five Star Landscaping - Landscaping Experts Calgary

Low-Maintenance Landscaping Ideas

Every year it feels like Calgarians get busier and busier. With life, work, family, and more on your plate, it can be difficult to make the time to ensure your lawn looks pristine. Part of the trouble is that the typical Calgary lawn requires significant maintenance to keep lush and green. Here are a few […]

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What You Need to Know About Aerating in Spring - Five Star Landscaping - Landscaping Experts Calgary

What You Need to Know About Aerating in Spring

With May upon us, more and more Calgarians are heading outdoors to enjoy the (hopefully) warming weather. Calgary frequently still sees snow in May, and especially around May Long when everyone tries to go camping, but that doesn’t mean it’s too early to start thinking about your yard and landscaping. Even if you’ve never aerated […]

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Creating a Yard that Thrives All Summer Long in Calgary - Five Star Landscaping - Landscaping Experts Calgary

Creating a Yard that Thrives All Summer Long in Calgary

Easter has come and gone, and many Calgarians are itching to spend some time outdoors. One question we know many Calgarians are wondering about is how to design their landscaping to look beautiful, require minimum maintenance, and be sufficiently hearty for our tough climate. While every yard is a little different and has a unique […]

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How Early is Too Early to Start Landscaping? - Five Star Landscaping - Landscaping Experts Calgary

How Early is Too Early to Start Landscaping?

The calendar may argue that spring is just around the corner, but Albertans know better than to expect winter to leave for good until mid-May. But with such a short growing season in our province, many Calgarians are wondering how they can stretch their summer and get a jump start on landscaping. A common question […]

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Make a Great Yard One of Your Resolutions - Five Star Landscaping - Landscaping Experts Calgary

Make a Great Yard One of Your Resolutions

Every year, thousands of Albertans look towards to the future and think about their goals and what they hope to accomplish. This new hope and clean slate approach to New Years is one of our favourite things about the end of the year. But if you’re tired of making (and breaking) the same old resolutions […]

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Thanks for the Great Year! - Five Star Landscaping - Landscaping Experts in Calgary

Thanks for the Great Year!

We usually use this blog as an opportunity to provide Calgarians with all the tips and knowledge they need to keep their yards looking great. But as 2017 is quickly coming to an end, we thought we’d do something a little different. We’d like to take a step back from all the lawn advice to […]

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