For a website tour of the Award-Winning Greenroof Gardens at St. Luke's Hospital:
click here.
Stano Landscaping recently received a Grand Award for "The St. Luke's Healing Garden" in the 40th Annual Environmental Improvement Awards Program sponsored by PLANET, the Professional Landcare Network. These green roof gardens at St. Luke's Hospital were specially-designed to provide indoor and outdoor sitting areas on a year-round basis.
The indoor conservatory provides a serene, climate-controlled garden environment. The interior garden offers a tropical theme, with gracefully branched trees, trickling water and vivid shrubs and flowers amid lush groundcovers. Most notably, the indoor garden is accessible to doctors, medical personnel, patients and their visitors, regardless of weather.
It's interesting to note that PLANET's Environment Improvement Awards reflect the association's commitment to creating and preserving the beauty of our country's landscape. The organization represents approximately 4,200 green industry service-provider companies and suppliers nationwide. Its member firms specialize in lawn care, design/build installation and interior plantscaping and landscape management. These firms and their employees represent more than 100,000 green industry professionals.
Previously, another Stano greenroof received recognition for design excellence. The green roof at Milwaukee School of Engineering was named a 2008 Project of Distinction by the Associated Builders and Contractors, Inc., Wisconsin Chapter last year and was awarded a Gold Award in the category of Green Building.
Special mention was made of the interesting features of its green roof. Stano Landscaping is proud to have been a part of this unique green roof project which included dramatic sculptures, decorative planters and concrete paver work as well as the installation of intensive soil mix, planting, sodding and irrigation.
GREEN ROOF PORTFOLIO SHOWCASES STANO SPECIALTY
Stano Landscaping first introduced greenroof installations as a service offering in 2006.
Since then, the demand for these special installations has grown steadily as more and more organizations have made conscious decisions to go "green." To date, Stano has installed more greenroofs than any other Milwaukee landscape contractor, and its greenroof portfolio includes:
Bayshore Mall
Milwaukee School of Engineering Man at Work Art Museum
University Club Tower
River Renaissance
Froedert Hospital Cancer Center Greenroof
Mortara Instrument Greenroof
Eastcastle Place
Greenroofs require intricate planning and typically include special drainage, pavers, engineered topsoil, irrigation, and trees, shrubs, perennials and annual plantings. Stano works hand-in-hand with area landscape architects, general contractors and roofing contractors on its green roof projects.
Vince Condella in Your Backyard"
Fox 6 Meteorologist, Vince Condella, left, chats with Judi and Matt Stano.
"Vince Condella in Your Backyard" was an auction item that Stano Landscaping won at a fundraising event for St. Ann Center for Intergenerational Care located at 2801 E. Morgan in Milwaukee. Stano turned it into a backyard luau and invited supporters of St. Ann Center as a special thank you. In all, 50 people were invited to the event held July 16th.
STANO: Supporting Our Troops Through Project Evergreen
Lawn and landscape maintenance often becomes a hardship when a family’s major breadwinner is away on active duty in the military. Fortunately, GreenCare for Troops is helping to fill the gap. This nationwide outreach program, coordinated by Project EverGreen, connects local green industry professionals with men and women serving our country in the armed forces away from home.
Recently, Stano Landscaping provided landscape services at the home of a local military family in West Allis. "We were happy to be able to help the Stephens family at 9003 West Schlinger Avenue," commented Matt Stano. "Their new front entry planting will be a nice surprise for her husband when he returns." Fox 6 News covered the work in progress in its July 22nd "News at 5."
Currently more than 2,200 volunteers are providing free lawn and landscape services for more than 8,000 military families nationwide through the GreenCare program. For more information, visit the GreenCare for Troops website.
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A "Working Partnership:"
Stano Landscaping and Natural Athletic Turf (NAT)
Stano Landscaping is in its third year of a working partnership with Natural Athletic Turf, LLC, an important name in Milwaukee area sports field installations and preservation since 1974.
NAT specializes in design, installation, maintenance and renovation of baseball, football and soccer fields; golf course greens, tees and fairways; putting greens; volleyball and croquet courts and lawn bowling courts.
This working partnership has expanded Stano's range of services for our commercial clients to include sports turf installation, and enables us to add personal putting greens to our list of services for residential clients.
Natural Athletic Turf, LLC is located at 11040 N. Buntrock Avenue, Mequon, WI. (262) 242-5740.
COMMUNITY CORNER
Sowing the Seeds of Community Pride
Stano Landscaping takes pride in supporting various projects and fund-raisers within the community we serve. The following is a partial list of the organizations we supported through recent charitable donations of goods and services:
2009 --
23rd Annual Make A Promise Dinner and Auction (AIDS Resource Center of Wisconsin)
2009 Relay for Life (American Cancer Society)
11th Annual Tailgate Party Benefit for Don & Sallie Boys & Girls Club (Badger Mutual Insurance Company)
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