Saltbrush Studio is a small landscape practice working across southern Alberta and the Crowsnest Pass. We design and build gardens, native meadows, and considered outdoor rooms — projects that grow into themselves over decades, not weeks.
A good garden is more witnessed than designed. Our role is to set conditions — soil, structure, the right plant in the right ground — and let the place become itself.
Southern Alberta asks a great deal of a landscape. Our winters are unsentimental; the wind across the open prairie is patient and unyielding. We don't design against these forces — we design with them, using native grasses, hardy stone, and shelterbelts that hold their shape through forty Februarys.
Each project begins on foot. We walk the site through every season we can manage before drawing a line. We meet the existing trees, the drainage, the way light falls in October. Only then do we propose an intervention.
The work that follows is unhurried. We plant young, we let things establish, we return.
Full-property design and master plans for residential gardens. Beds, paths, structure, seasonal interest. From sketch to plant tag.
Prairie restoration and meadow installations using regional native seed mixes. Low-input, high-presence, full of pollinators.
Dry-stack walls, fieldstone patios, and stepping paths. We work primarily with locally-quarried stone — no concrete pavers.
Stewardship visits for established gardens — pruning, dividing, soil amendments, and the careful editing a maturing landscape needs.
Prairie restoration · Pincher Creek
Edible landscape · Pincher Creek
Windbreak design · Fort Macleod
A consultation begins with a 90-minute on-site visit. Pick the offering that best fits your project.
Site visits run Tuesday through Friday, weather permitting. Choose a tentative date — we'll confirm by email.
Just enough to know what to bring on the visit.
Your deposit holds the visit and is applied in full toward your project.
Your consultation is reserved. We've sent a confirmation to your email with a calendar invite and a short questionnaire.
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