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Hanging Basket Questions Anoka Chaska Chisago City Fairbault Forest Lake Compararitice Cities Lisa A LaCasse Brian Yung Doris Zacho Paul J. Peanasky Other Cities Public Services Administrator PW Superintendent Parks Superintendent Parks and Recreation Director We order 16" 'weekender' baskets from We work with Gertens on all of our Green Valley Greenhouse. They're hanging baskets. They put a good planted once &grow all summer. GV package together a fair price. When Lebens Floral in Hugo; usually choose They buy a 20" or l ar ger Where do you get your baskets from? starts them in their greenhouse. We we a change a few years ago what we want by February D n hue sfloral in F ribau1t basket from Viking hangthem before Memorial Da & we went from 16 baskets to now Greenhouse in Stacy. remove them after the first frost, or 18" baskets and at a much lower before Oct 1. The baskets are returned cost. to GV for reuse. Do you have tho same arrangements all Our arborist chooses flower colors (2 to Same arrangements all season, but We do basically mid-May to mid- Yes and we have about 5 spare plants is 3), changes it up year to year. Don't summer, or do you have spring and fall include potato vin inc 1 n we have some for shade and some Sept. The seasonal planters DT are that can replace a basket if one gets e because they tend arrangements. to starve out the flowers.fl r . for full sun. done manually by myself. destroyed or plant just dies on us. We own the baskets and they plant them in late February. Donahue's Public Works staff hang&maintain will grow them in the their green them (takes — 2 days). The hanger rods We have dedicated seasonal public house until we pick them up the are wired to the poles so they don't works staff that maintains them 7 week prior toMemorial Day. Parksrk s blow off. Each basket has 2 irrigation days a week including holiday Only Department then installs the flow e rs lines. Baskets are watered every other a few are maintained by irrigation. and we leave them up until round Who maintains them? day 10-20 min. dep. on weather. We have found that the best way to PT Seasonals are hired to do park October 1. Starting the day after the They are hand watered from a Every Monday a staff person checks rounds and maintain the baskets is to hand daily watering. plants go up,we work with our Sr. Gator/water tank set up. several baskets and irrigation lines to water h that way they get Center and they begin watering them - make sure they are getting adequate them. The Sr. Center waters every1ooked at every day to identify and water. The watering schedule is adjusted issues. day and twice a day when the during times of drought, extreme heat, weather gets hot. Usually Tues, etc. Wed, and Thursday for a second watering. Second watering is in the early evening.