苗圃起源与奇努克风带定位
Vale’s Greenhouse 由 Anne Vale 1976 年在 Black Diamond 创办,Anne 1961 年从英国 Shropshire 移民加拿大,1960 年曾到 Longview 以南一处牧场访友后便爱上加拿大,最初的 2 000 棵育苗十天内售罄,使她确信扎根园艺的路走得通。她在 1970 年代围绕苗圃建起 English 风格的多年生 border,即今天的 Horseshoe Bed,奠定”耐寒植物为本”的整体方向。苗圃明确将自己定位为”南阿尔伯塔与 Calgary 园艺专门店,主推适合奇努克风带的耐寒植物与灌木”,由于 Black Diamond 距 Calgary 约 40 分钟车程,苗圃同时服务 Calgary 都会区园艺爱好者与 Foothills 农户。
家族传承与 Katrina 时代
1990 年 Anne 的教女 Katrina Diebel 加入苗圃,Katrina 早年在 Black Diamond 以南自家农场长大,熟悉农业经营,加入后先开辟景观工程业务,后在 2004 年正式从 Anne 手中接管苗圃经营。Anne 退休后仍参与畅销书《Gardening Under The Arch》再版修订,并支持 Katrina 子女的体育活动。Katrina 接管后,苗圃以”自主育苗 + 冷棚驯化”形成区别于连锁温室的差异化路线,擅长稀有植物与新品种,持续改扩建园区,所产植物在 Calgary 与南阿尔伯塔园艺爱好者中口碑稳定。
南阿尔伯塔耐寒植物的自主驯化
苗圃主推”耐寒植物为本”路线,所有顶部的多年生植物、吊篮植物与盆景填充植物均在 Vale’s Greenhouse 自家场地种植,采用的工艺是先用肥料组合增厚叶面与根系,夜间把温室温度降至冰点以上,清晨强制降温,再将成品移入无加热的冷棚冻硬,出太阳时自然解冻后直接上柜售卖。多年生植物在大苗床中试种一年,容器植物则在显示容器中展示成熟状态,客户可直观看到植物在自己花园中的实际表现。这一传统工艺与连锁温室”开店前几周才播种”的方式形成鲜明对比,9 月初做首轮播种,慢养慢出,正是 Anne 1976 年延续至今的园艺哲学。
展示花园与户外艺术品矩阵
Vale’s Greenhouse 围绕温室建设了一系列具备示范功能的展示花园:1990 年建成的池塘及瀑布由”生物过滤器”驱动;2002 年起由欧洲石匠 Jan Monnissen 在 8 吨、累计 15 吨蒙大拿河石基础上修建的 Garden Wall;2007 年建造的 Oast House 灵感取自英国东南部传统啤酒花烘干塔;2008 年改造的 Statue Garden 由 Katrina 亲自驾 bobcat 推平旧植床重建;2012 年改造的 Pergola 区由她重新按比例抬升花床;另有 Horseshoe Bed 草本花境、Alpine Garden 高山植物岩床、Fern Garden 蕨类湿地、Palm Tree Garden 与 Wind Harp Garden 等十大示范花园;园区入口的 Kinetic Copper Wind Art 是 2009 年从 St Louis 引回,可在微风中自旋。
2026 艺术展、季节活动与访客指南
苗圃自 2009 年起与 Maryanne’s Eden 联合举办 Cultivation of Art Show and Sale,2026 年艺术展安排在 6 月 19-21 日,有 40 余位阿尔伯塔本地入围艺术家在温室与销售区展出织物、绘画、木雕、陶艺、玻璃、混合媒介与银饰;Spring Container Planting Seminar 4 月开课约 3 小时,5 美元/人;Custom Container Week 2026 安排在 5 月 7-16 日 9:00-17:00,5 美元/盆,免预约;礼品店常年提供越南手工高烧陶罐、圣诞礼品、家居饰品,礼品卡无到期日,可电话订购邮寄。苗圃亦为 AGGA 阿尔伯塔温室种植者协会、CHS 卡尔加里园艺学会与 PPA 美国多年生植物协会成员,涵盖区域性、行业性与国际性园艺组织三类。
Founding and the Chinook Zone identity
Anne Vale started the greenhouse in 1976 on the strength of her first 2 000 bedding plants, which sold out in ten days, and she quickly established herself as a knowledgeable plantswoman in Black Diamond. She created the show garden around the growing business and learned the fine art of gardening in Alberta’s tough climate, including the 1970s Horseshoe Bed still in the garden today. The site is specifically positioned as “Your Southern Alberta and Calgary area gardening specialists, featuring hardy perennials and shrubs for the Chinook Zone,” a Chinook-influenced microclimate where warm winter winds demand hardy, well-conditioned plant material.
Family succession and the Katrina Diebel era
Anne’s goddaughter Katrina Diebel joined the nursery in 1990, growing up on a family farm just south of Black Diamond, and she initially built a landscape business alongside the nursery before taking over operations in 2004. Anne retired that year, leaving the greenhouse in the good hands of Katrina and her staff, and she has since helped revise the bestseller Gardening Under The Arch. Katrina has carved her own name in the gardening world with the kind of enthusiasm and hard work that keeps Vale’s Greenhouse in top shape, growing the hard-to-find plants and chasing new introductions, and the ever-changing business always has a plan for something new to be built or remodelled.
Hardy plants bred on site
Vale’s Greenhouse grows only the toughest plants, understanding the area and the weather that can shift from shorts and lemonade to snow in a single April day. The nursery builds hardiness through a combination of fertilizer regimes, thickening the leaves and increasing the root mass, then cooling the plants during the day before the frost leaves the ground, and dropping greenhouse temperatures overnight to just above freezing. The conditioned plants are then moved into unheated cold frames where they often freeze solid, so by the time the sun comes out they thaw and look great. The first seeding is in September, grown slowly with care and attention, which is the opposite of greenhouses that don’t even start their plants until only a few weeks before opening.
The demonstration garden matrix
The garden at Vale’s Greenhouse is laid out as a sequence of themed rooms that double as planting inspiration. The Pond was dug in 1990 with Calgary’s growing pond-in-the-garden concept, and its biological filter flushes the water every hour. The Garden Wall was started in 2002 by European stone mason Jan Monnissen using 8 tons of Montana River Rock and Mountain Ash Stone from British Columbia’s Kettle Valley, with a 15-ton southern wall and a 2005 front gate. The Oast House was inspired by a 2007 Ohio trip and built by Jan Monnissen in a round stone form to evoke the traditional English hop-drying kilns. The Pergola was rebuilt in 2012, the Statue Garden was completely renewed in 2008, and Horseshoe Bed, Alpine Garden, Fern Garden, Palm Tree Garden and Wind Harp Garden round out the demonstration matrix.
2026 art show, classes and visitor guide
Custom Container Week 2026 runs from May 7 to May 16, 9 a.m. to 5 p.m., at $5.00 per container plus the cost of soil and plant material, no reservations required. The Cultivation of Art Show and Sale opens June 19, 20 and 21 2026 with over 40 juried Alberta artists, and an artist reception runs from 1:00 pm to 5:00 pm on June 21. Spring Container Planting Seminars are offered throughout April at $5.00 per person, and the gift shop is restocked for Christmas from early August. The nursery is a current member of the AGGA Alberta Greenhouse Growers Association, the Calgary Horticultural Society and the Perennial Plant Association, covering regional, civic and international horticultural bodies.
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