Pine Avenue Park: "Historic Flowers of Carlsbad"
Carlsbad, CA 2006

This public art project consists of five giant cast concrete flowers with mosaics front and back. Commissioned by the City of Carlsbad, CA, this project was created for the Parks and Recreation Department's newly constructed Pine Avenue Park. Carlsbad was historically considered to be the commercial flower growing capitol of the United States. The five flowers represented are the Bird of Paradise, Gladiola, Poinsettia, Ranunculas, and Zinnia. Each flower stands 12' high by 3' wide by 18” deep. Quarry Tile of Spokane, WA made the ceramic tile. ProFoam of Vista, CA fabricated the styrofoam forms. The concrete contractor is Sundt Construction, Inc. of San Diego. The structural engineering was by Simon Wong Engineering of San Diego. Bob's Crane Service of Lakeside, CA brought each sculpture to the site. The landscape architect for Pine Avenue Park is Schmidt Design Group of San Diego.