Craftsman Square and Round pots in Aged Bronze Metal-Infused finish
We were just sent these images by our Southern California representative, Jon Willingham. He worked with Lightfoot Planning Group on the specification of the containers, which were installed by ValleyCrest Landscape Development. More after the jump…
Summer planting at the City of Middletown, CT
Every day we hear the stories of public maintenance budgets shrinking. Check with almost any city park & rec department and they’ll lament the fact that they can’t keep up in the face of cuts. The Middletown (CT) Downtown Business District found that by using Tournesol Siteworks’ container irrigation system they could make their color program budget stretch further. They use our CWF container irrigation bowls with existing concrete containers, changing them out with each season. In the words of Marie Kalita-Leary, Director of the Middletown Downtown Business District:
Tournesol Siteworks irrigation systems were the end to our nightmare. The only way to get water to our planters was to use manual labor via a wagon. On hot summer days it required hours and hours of work to water all the planters along our Main St. The irrigation system from Tournesol Siteworks have saved us so much and brought us so much. During warm weather spells in the summer, I know that planters are receiving the water they need – and – the flowers look great from the minute they are planted. We save on labor and staff time. A landscaping company fills the systems with water and checks them weekly. Because the flowers and plants are receiving the nourishment they need, when they need it, we always have full and gorgeous flowers in our planters. I highly recommend the irrigation systems by Tournesol Siteworks.
more images of their color program after the break
Photos courtesy of Farthingale Stone
In the Spring of 2010, the City of Hugoton, Kansas formed a streetscape committee and began working on downtown beautification. Under consideration for redevelopment were 2 blocks of Main Street and 6th Street in the downtown area. Click to continue »
A combination of square and rectangular Urban Pots
The work at 5550 Wilshire Blvd., in the heart of Los Angele’s Miracle Mile district, was one of our largest projects of the year. With over 180 pots, in both GFRC and FRP fiberglass, as well as container irrigation for them all, it kept our manufacturing facility busy for some time. The landscape design for this project was done by Valleycrest Design Group of Orange County (formerly HRP Studio) for the developer Legacy Partners. We worked closely with ParkWest Landscape, who handled the entire project. More info and images after the jump…
Harbor Pointe Condominiums and Townhomes
We’ve been working together with Anastasi Development, the developers behind Harbor Pointe, for years, and it is a pleasure to feature one of their properties here. Most of their projects over the past 10 years have included our SeaCrest Series planters with the built-in container irrigation system. More images and a description after the jump…
all photos couresy Scott Doman, Water Logic Technologies
We were delighted to be chosen to provide the planters and irrigation systems for the on-structure planters at the brand-new Ritz-Carlton Destination Club in Vail, CO this past spring. The project was specified by SE Group from Burlington, VT (who ought to know a thing or two about designing ski locations), and installed by Rocky Mountain Custom Landscapes. Recently our mountain-states representative Scott Doman visited the site, and sent back this description and the attached images.
More after the jump…
Thanks to our distributor Solutions AquaSol near Montreal, Tournesol Siteworks was featured in this month’s fleurs•plantes•jardins, a french-canadian gardening publication. The 3-page article highlighted several different sub-irrigation varieties, using many Tournesol images. The article focuses on the technical aspects of the products, and introduces how they work to the gardening public there. If your French is better than mine you can click here for the complete article: fleur_plantes_jardins_5-2010_article
Urban Collection round US-2400, US-3600 and US-3000
Sometimes I think if you follow our blog you’d think that all we do is living wall systems. Just to set the record straight, that couldn’t be further from the truth. While living wall is a fast-emerging opportunity for us, our bread-and-butter business remains manufacturing pots, planters, and irrigation systems. We try to post as many images from installed projects in this blog so that our customers have a chance to see what our products really look like in the field, and to get a sense of whether it will work for what they’re doing. We also hope, just a little, that it will provide inspiration and ideas for designers looking for ways to make their urban environment greener. More info about NoHo 14 after the break.
all images courtesy of Smith+Smith Landscape Architects
Have you ever wondered what the inside of a big-time corporate boardroom looked like? I know I did. It was fun for us to work on this relatively small terrace project for one of the financial service titans in San Francisco. They recently moved buildings, and found themselves with a boardroom looking over an undecorated rooftop. The view was great, but the roof wasn’t. They brought in landscape architects Smith+Smith in San Francisco to soften the view. Click to continue »
The previous two posts about San Jose featured applications of Tournesol Siteworks pots and planters used to green the streets of Downtown. This post features one of the city’s most interesting experiments – widening the sidewalks. Click to continue »
