Jun. 21, 2026

Hours Update

Historical Village is open daily until Aug 30, 2026! Visit Gasoline Alley Museum, the Heritage Plaza shops, dine in The Selkirk and the Railway Café, attend special Spring events or make event and private bookings. Click here for operation updates.

Jun. 21, 2026

Hours Update

Historical Village is open daily until Aug 30, 2026! Visit Gasoline Alley Museum, the Heritage Plaza shops, dine in The Selkirk and the Railway Café, attend special Spring events or make event and private bookings. Click here for operation updates.


Vegetable Gardens and Heritage Seed Preservation


Exhibit Details

Area

Village Square

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Category

Outdoor Spaces

About the Vegetable Gardens and Heritage Seed Preservation

Historical gardens and flowerbeds dot the landscape of Heritage Park, and are intended to enhance a visitor’s historical experience by presenting some of the vegetables, flowers and herbs commonly grown in gardens throughout Western Canada before 1914.

The Park’s five vegetable gardens contain such old-fashioned varieties as Green Oak Leaf lettuce, Oxheart carrots, Scarlet Runner beans, Lutz Green Leaf beets and Large Manitoba peas. Flower gardens contain such historical specimens as Siberian irises, day lilies, hollyhocks, monkshood, clematis, peonies, geraniums and bleeding hearts. Other gardens feature historical varieties of wheat, herbs, prairie grasses and native wildflowers.

A large vegetable garden in front of Livingston House at Heritage Park

Visit Heritage Park

1900 Heritage DR. S.W. Calgary, Alberta, Canada T2V 2X3

Email: info@heritagepark.ca
Phone: 403.268.8500

There are plenty of ways to get to the Park, whether that be on foot, via transit, or driving. Click here to find the way that works for you!