Landscape services tries hard to have flowers blooming as soon as possible in the spring so students can benefit. The next seasonal goal for landscape services is to have the campus looking its best when the state high school track meet is in La Crosse. For instance, the Coleus are grown for creating color at the awards stand for the track meet, and then are planted elsewhere on campus. The re-use of plants is emphasized. Plants like day lilies are routinely thinned out, the excess going to a new planting.
Day lilies are tougher than nails and the multiply rapidly.
Bemis, a licensed landscape architect, says landscape architects get joy in designing. He hopes two of his new designs bring joy to everyone who sees them, the new plantings in the renovated Graff Main Hall courtyard and a planter outside Wittich Hall in honor of Carol Bassuener. All Rights Reserved.