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
The City of San Jose has put over 300 planters in its downtown district during the past year, and nearly all of them have been manufactured by Tournesol Siteworks. The previous post showed the most recent installation of custom Urban Collection and Wilshire Box hanging planters. This post highlights previous work done in the same downtown area. 
