HistoryTournesol Siteworks has over twenty-five years of creating landscape solutions for urban environments. We started in 1979 as Planter Technology, creating the first commercially practical self-watering planter for indoor plants. Allen Secrest, the original founder of the company, started out selling the Natural Spring self-watering planter to the interior plant maintenance business. Over time he expanded the company's product offering to include large-scale planters with built-in irrigation, planter liners for the construction marketplace, and unique plant care products.
In 1994 a new group, led by Christopher Lyon, acquired the company to push it to the next level. In 1996 they expanded the original self-watering pot concept and created a simple self-watering insert. The concept of Container irrigation was born, designed to make irrigation available to any pot or planter. In 1998 the focus of container irrigation was broadened from primarily interior to exterior applications. Over the next few years distribution was added, and the concept of container irrigation grew to be an accepted part of the commercial landscape market, with Planter Technology at the head of the pack.
2004 was a year of significant changes for the company. In April the first fiberglass pots in the new Tournesol Siteworks line were shipped, marking the company's re-entry into the site furnishings business. Later that year Flower Framers of Cincinnati, who had been manufacturing fiberglass windowboxes for 10 years, was acquired. The Cincinnati facility has become the base for most manufacturing operations. Since then site furnishings and linear planters have quickly grown to be key parts of the business.
We changed the name in 2007 to reflect the expanded scope of the business. We adopted the Tournesol Siteworks name for the entire company. Tournesol is the French word for Sunflower, and literally means "turn to the sun". In 2007 we also entered the quickly-growing business of providing components to the green roof marketplace. As building owners and developers become more concerned about the environmental impact of the built environment and people's relationship to it, we see a broad future opportunity for our type of company.
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