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Hastings Maple Grove Northfield Rosemount St. Peter Stillwater Chris Jenkins Chalene Ward Tim Behrendt Wynne Sutton Scott Schroeder Tim Moore Park& Rec Director Recreation Coordinator Streets & Parks Manager Horticulturist Maintenance Superintendent PW Superintendent The City does not maintain the We buy 20" baskets ($99/ea.) from XCEL Energy operates & maintains downtown flowers. I believe the Urbanscape Planters in Winnipeg our DT street lights. They do not We hire a contractor who buys after reviewing several vendors design allow the city to hang anything on businesses maintain them or the We get them from Fairbault Growers We get our baskets from Donahue's them from Gertens. Copy of our and cost. Peter Klym @ them. We have large pots on the Shoppes of Arbor Lakes etc. I also Inc. Garden House in Fairbault, MN RFP available. info�urbanscapeplanters.com; phone sidewalk placed along the curb in think they use Lynde s Nursery in is 1-800-439-4157. Flower cost is between parking stall. Purchased Maple Grove for all their flowers. —$42/basket. locally from Abrahamson's Nursery. We buy plants from Gertens. They plant 3 plants to each 8" mum pot in It is the same arrangements in the Same flowers throughout the season. early spring& finish them out in their baskets all season. We do switch up The contractor determines that h k h n f M greenhouses. It takes 3 of the pots to h design r r with We use 1 arrangement throughout the We putt e baskets up the end o May g P the des g year to yea w t a but we can request specific plants fill u the basket 9 lams per basket summer with tall grasses,wave and are take them down the end of P ( P P ) common theme being Petunias. if we want to. w some added soil. This way lpetunias and potato vines. September. / yams P Petunias are a hardy flower that can fill up the pot& they c/b placed tolerate some drought/neglect. immediately. Baskets go up in the springand we don't need to change them - they bloom into Sept. The horticulture staff(4 + me) We hire 3-4 seasonals that are maintains them. Each pole is rigged scheduled to do the daily watering. It with an irrigation system. We use a takes one seasonal approx. 4-4.5 425 gal tank w/a pump on a water The City has a contract with The MN We specify they need to be hours a day to water the downtown truck. Using a quick connect, both State Hospital here in St. Peter. They The city hires additional seasonal flowers. So we have 28-32 hours per pots receive water at the same time have inmates available for work employees to help with maintenance maintained using standard horticultural r week put into watering the hanging going directly into the tube that feeds release in which they water our along with some help from the practices. baskets and other flowers downtown. into the reservoir (see irrigation downtown baskets once a day businesses. These seasonals usually are retired or drawing). We water until it flows out throughout the summer. looking for a second job since they of the drainage hole. The hoses that only work 8-10 hours a week. feed into the tubes can be removed during the off season.