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Los Feliz Residence in the Los Angeles Times

Tuesday, November 8th, 2011

Los Feliz Residence - photos courtesy of Park Slope Landscape

A while back we featured a few images of a residential project in a blog post titled “Another satisfied customer”. Joan Grabel of Park Slope Landscape worked on the Gurman Residence in Santa Monica, transforming a beatiful 1924 home with an average landscape into something special.

Not only did she send a few images to us (and thank us for a job well done), she submitted the project to the Pro Portfolio section of the Los Angeles Times.

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Distrigas Vistor Center Roofdeck, Everett, MA

Tuesday, July 12th, 2011

 

Distrigas Visitor Center roofdeck, photos courtesy of Bisco Irrigation

Bobby Barbati of BISCO irrigation (our distribution partner in New England) sent through a few photos of a job that he worked on last year. The setting is a new 6000 sq. ft. visitor center at the Distrigas LNG terminal in Everett, MA.  The roofdeck was designed by Michael Radner of Radner Design Associates of Framingham, MA.

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A new Container Irrigation training module

Thursday, April 14th, 2011

We’ve just completed a brief (15-min.) overview course for those who want to get a better understanding of the Tournesol Siteworks standard container irrigation products. It runs in either html or flash format on almost any computer.

We originally developed the course to help train the sales staff at our local distributor partners. We want them to be able to provide you with the best support in the field, which means understanding the product they are selling. It has proved to be a great way to familiarize our user and specifier base with our range of solutions. Click on the image below to start the course in flash, or click here to go to the page on our website.

 

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Tournesol Container Irrigation in the Frontgate catalog

Monday, March 7th, 2011

Design for custom irrigation insert for Frontgate

It’s been some time since we’ve had a product other than our Flower Framer windowboxes sold in the retail arena. We were delighted to be approached by Frontgate (a division of Cinmar), who were looking for a container irrigation insert to sell along with an exclusive pot this year. They were able to fit our standard CWC-1300 and CWC-1600 irrigation inserts to several pots that they offer, but had something special in mind for their feature product this Spring. They wanted a custom size for a large, square woven planter.

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Pacific Station, Encinitas, CA – a note about shape, size, and what we can do…

Wednesday, January 19th, 2011

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…

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How the Middletown (CT) Downtown Business District stretches its street planter maintenance budget

Tuesday, January 4th, 2011

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.

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5550 Wilshire, Los Angeles – Miracle Mile “Art Moderne”

Friday, October 8th, 2010

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…

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Harbor Pointe, Harbor City CA – SeaCrest Series planter application

Wednesday, September 29th, 2010

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…

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NoHo 14 Apartments, North Hollywood, CA

Friday, March 5th, 2010

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.

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Bendigo Bank, Bendigo, Victoria, Australia

Friday, December 4th, 2009

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I recently posted about our Smart Water Mark award in Australia, and thought it might be nice to show the work we’ve been doing Down Under.  Click to continue »