Overflowing entrance sign at Oak Ridge

We are proud to announce that Field Outdoor Spaces was awarded a 2010 MNLA Merit Award for our annual bedding plant management and garden maintenance at Oakridge Golf Club located in Hopkins, MN. We are going on our fifth year of partnership installing and maintaining the club’s annual flower beds. This is the second year in a row that we have won an award for commercial garden maintenance.

Last fall, we submitted our entry for the landscape management award to MNLA (Minnesota Nursery and Landscape Association). Part of the award criteria was based on the submission of twenty digital photos taken throughout the season and a written description about each photo. Please visit the website www.gardenminnesota.com to check out our work under ‘Award Winning Landscapes’ and ‘Merit Award 2010.’ Pictures of the gardens will also be displayed through March at the Minnesota Landscape Arboretum in Chaska, MN.

Hole 10 annual combination

Preparation for the annual installation begins in January with new designs and preparing the plant order. Around May 15^th, our crews install the annuals. Colorful seasonal plantings are found in high traffic areas with bold bursts of color that greet club members. Our annuals are found around the tee boxes, under trees, and in areas where members and their families frequent, such as the pool and tennis court areas. In a typical year we install over 250 flats of annuals at the club, including simple bedding plants like zinnias and petunias as well as specialty plants like cannas, purple fountain grass and house ferns. After installation, we are at the course every Monday to dead-head, remove dead or underperforming plants, and weed every week.

We are honored to have won such a distinguished award. Our company, along with other award winners, will be recognized at a dinner hosted by MNLA in March.

Midsummer view of our award winning rose garden in Chaska.

The MNLA awarded Field a Grand Honor Award in the category of Commercial Management at the 2008 MNLA Awards Night in February. The MNLA website displays the awards and a handful of pictures. The award was given for the work we’ve done over the past four years at the corporation Beckman Coulter. Beckman was our first client and tipped the scales on whether we were going to start a company, so the award is especially meaningful.

Sphinx moth dips its proboscis into a yellow snapdragon.

We need to thank the management at Beckman for the incredible value they put on the everyday work experience of their employees. The multi-building site has a memorial rose garden where employees stroll during lunch time and take calls under rose bedecked arbors, a dramatic waterfall outside a main entrance, and perennial gardens surrounding every building that we fill with seasonal color. It is not only a great place for Beckman employees, it is also one of our favorite places to work, because of the wonderful flowers and wildlife (butterflies, sphinx moths, snakes, hummingbirds) the gardens entice.