Water-Wise Gardening Photo Gallery
Click on the links below to view photos of Water-Wise Gardens here in the Calgary region.
If you have a water-wise garden and would like to contribute to our photo gallery, please contact the Society office @ 403-287-3469 for details.
Front Yard Water-Wise Garden #1
This Water-Wise Front Yard Garden won 1st prize in the Society's Garden Competition for Best Low Water-Use/Xeriscape Garden in 2002. The pictures show how it looks from spring through to late summer. One of the close-ups shows a hosta 'Sunlover' which likes it hot and dry.
The Garden of Terri Austin-Beech
NW Calgary
Terri's favorite way of getting water to plants is to bury plastic water bottles alongside new shrubs, annuals and perennials. She makes a pin hole or two in the bottom of the bottle, buries it and covers it with bark mulch. She fills each bottle with water when the plants need to be watered. Some of her favorite plants for xeriscaping are drought-tolerant grasses, stonecrop and her favourite, False Spirea, a beautiful, lacy-leafed shrub with soft white blooms.
Riky's Garden in SW Calgary
Riky includes many water-wise methods in her garden like composting, grass-cycling, mulching, as well as storing and using rainwater. She includes water-wise plants that are silver and fuzzy leaved for their ability to thrive very well with limited moisture.
The Garden of Wendy Runge
SW Calgary
This garden was designed and developed in a new subdivision (staged over the past 3 years), after attending one of the Society's landscaping workshops. Plants such as irises, lilies, sedums, alpines and drought-tolerant shrubs were chosen for their various blooming times throughout the season and need for little water or care. Many plants were 'rescued' from vacated farmsteads, having proven their survival through seasons of neglect and drought.