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Crews Hard At Work Sprucing Up Village For Spring


Rosemont Public Works turned the fountain at Higgins and River blue this month for Autism Awareness Month. (Photo submitted)

After an unusually long winter, spring is officially underway in Rosemont. With the sunshine and warmer weather comes the landscaping teams beautifying the village’s streets and parks for the seasons to come.

Rosemont Public Works Director Mike Raimondi said the unseasonably cool start to spring “didn’t hinder” landscaping crews from putting down mulch and fertilizer in plant beds.

The landscaping crew consists of six members of the Public Works Department and between eight to 10 employees of Krimson Valley Landscaping, the latter of which Raimondi said the village has partnered with for for 30 to 40 years.

“We coordinate with Krimson Valley on changing up the flower beds and changing colors of flowers,” Raimondi said.

He said his department works with Krimson Valley on deciding which flowers will go where, first deciding the exact amount of materials they need to use. Although they change up the color schemes and floral designs, Raimondi said that most Rosemont residents don’t notice the difference. All together, Rosemont plants more than 12,000 flats of flowers and plants.

Landscaping also occurs at all village interchanges along River Road and all village-owned properties like Village Hall.

“Basically everything that you see in town that’s owned or operated is landscaped and kept up by us,” he said.

All the work on the landscaping is done on a maintenance contract. Landscapers weed the flower beds weekly and perform other plant bed maintenance as necessary.

Once October or November rolls around, the team begins preparing the planted areas for winter. The flowers are pulled and holes for the tulip bulbs are redrilled. Where the tulip bulbs end up differs from year to year.

Throughout the spring and summer, Raimondi said Rosemont often gets calls about the beauty of the landscaping throughout town, whether the colors, brightness or landscape design that bring beauty to the village.

“It’s not even so much our people in our community, it’s people, consumers that work here are passing through,” Raimondi said. “They are always calling and complimenting the mayor on how well the town looks.”

There are other ways Rosemont Public Works is making a visual statement throughout the village this spring and summer. During April, the fountain at Monument Park is dyed blue for Autism Awareness Month. The fountain will also be lit up purple for Alzheimer’s Awareness is June.

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