New Greenhouse ready for the summer season
Rapid City, S.D. (KELO) — An 18-month project on the new greenhouse in Rapid City is done, and crews are getting to work with the plant life for the upcoming month.
These flowers and plants fill the over 1,700 acres of park space in Rapid City.
'Every year we always plan on growing 8,000 to 10,000 from seed. With this new greenhouse, we will be better equipped to do a few more from seed. Which in turn saves money being able to grow from seed and we don't have to buy them outright and then we're able to put out a good product,' City Parks and Recreation Greenhouse Specialist John Berglund said.
This new state-of-the-art facility is more than 50% bigger than the previous greenhouse which stood for several decades. Some of the new technology inside this new greenhouse will allow the keepers there to moderate and change the temperature to better control the plant life as they transition outside.
Berglund can monitor these temperatures right from his phone to combat changes in weather.
'And then the climate controls are just incredible. Then we shade curtains so if it gets too sunny the shade curtains will close. If it gets too hot the cooling wall behind you will turn on and it's like a big swamp cooler and so it will help cool this place down. I can maintain a temperature 10 to 15 degrees cooler than the outside temperature,' Berglund said.
Staff at the greenhouse will prepare over 20,000 flowers and plants to brighten up the city from park to park.
The Parks and Rec Department is expecting to have all of the park's flowers planted and set around Memorial Day.
Copyright 2025 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.
Hashtags
Try Our AI Features
Explore what Daily8 AI can do for you:
Comments
No comments yet...
Related Articles
Yahoo
an hour ago
- Yahoo
Memorial Day weekend weather in Georgia: See forecasts for Savannah, Athens, Augusta, etc.
With Memorial Day weekend coming up, Georgians should know what the weather is looking like for the three-day weekend. The state is expected to experience generally low chances of rain with temperatures ranging in the low to mid 80s. Here is a deeper look at forecast predictions. This federal holiday is celebrated every last Monday of May. It is dedicated to honor and remember the men and women who died while serving in the U.S. military. According to The Weather Channel, here are forecast predictions for areas around the state. Athens: Friday: Sunny with a high of 78 degrees and a low of 53 degrees. There is only a 3% chance of precipitation. Saturday: Partly cloudy with a high of 80 degrees and a low of 58 degrees. There is a 21% chance of precipitation. Sunday: Partly cloudy with a high of 80 degrees and a low of 62 degrees. There is a 20% chance of precipitation. Monday: Mostly cloudy with a high of 81 degrees and a low of 66 degrees. There is a 24% chance of precipitation. Savannah: Friday: Sunny with a high of 87 degrees and a low of 61 degrees. There is only a 1% chance of precipitation. Saturday: Mostly sunny with a high of 84 degrees and a low of 66 degrees. There is only a 2% chance of precipitation. Sunday: Partly cloudy with a high of 87 degrees and a low of 71 degrees. There is a 15% chance of precipitation. Monday: Partly cloudy with a high of 86 degrees and a low of 72 degrees. There is a 24% chance of precipitation. Augusta: Friday: Sunny with a high of 82 degrees and a low of 57 degrees. There is only a 1% chance of precipitation. Saturday: Mostly sunny with a high of 82 degrees and a low of 61 degrees. There is a 16% chance of precipitation. Sunday: Partly cloudy with a high of 84 degrees and a low of 65 degrees. There is a 15% chance of precipitation. Monday: Mostly cloudy with a high of 82 degrees and a low of 67 degrees. There is a 24% chance of precipitation. Vanessa Countryman is the Trending Topics Reporter for the the Deep South Connect Team Georgia. Email her at Vcountryman@ This article originally appeared on Augusta Chronicle: Memorial Day weekend weather in Georgia
Yahoo
7 hours ago
- Yahoo
When is the summer solstice 2025? What to know about the longest day of the year
With the cool temperatures and rain in the region over Memorial Day weekend, it seems like summer weather will never reach Connecticut. But it's much closer than it seems, with the summer season right around the corner, which kicks off with the summer solstice. The summer solstice is when the sun reaches its highest point in the sky for the year, and marks the beginning of summer. It is the longest day of the year, with the most daylight. "The summer solstice occurs at the moment the earth's tilt toward the sun is at a maximum," according to the National Weather Service website. "Therefore, on the day of the summer solstice, the sun appears at its highest elevation with a noontime position that changes very little for several days before and after the summer solstice." It will occur this year on June 20, 2025. It begins with the summer solstice on June 20. The summer solstice is not on the same day every year. "The solstices also do not land on the same calendar day every year because the astronomical year is 365.25 days long," according to the website. "As such, the summer solstice for the Northern Hemisphere — also known as the June solstice — currently shifts between June 20, 21 and 22." Conversely, the summer solstice in the Southern Hemisphere happens on Dec. 21 or 22 each year. The National Weather Service is predicting another hot summer in the northeast this year. The NWS three-month outlook, issued April 17, shows that temperatures in New England are likely to be 50-60% above normal in May, June and July of 2025. Precipitation in the Northeast is also expected to be slightly above normal by about 35-40%. The Farmer's Almanac also predicted above average temperatures in the Northeast this summer. In New England, "broiling" heat is in the forecast. "Heat will be in full force by July, with much of the nation sweltering with above- to high-above average temperatures," the forecast says. However, it predicts 'average precipitation' for the region. Katie Landeck contributed to this report. This article originally appeared on The Providence Journal: When is the summer solstice 2025? Date, summer weather outlook
Yahoo
19 hours ago
- Yahoo
FEMA teams in the Ozarks survey Memorial Day storm damage
MISSOURI — FEMA teams are in the Ozarks this week, survey damage reports from Memorial Day weekend storms and flooding. 'They are going through the five impacted counties from the May 23 through May 26 storms, and they're looking at damage to public infrastructure, roadways, if there's public buildings or any public utilities that might have been damaged from those storms,' Ryan Lowry-Lee with FEMA said. OzarksFirst shadowed the FEMA team in Dade County and spoke to Presiding Commissioner Kim Kinder about the damage that remains. 'When we have major flooding because it is the Sac River it's connected to Stockon Lake, so if it's flooded, at Stockton Lake, they let water out and stuff, it all rises. So we've had to deal with that in the past and they can take out the whole road there. It has in the past. It's quite a bit and it's causing people to have to drive an extra 5 to 10 miles around, you know, to get to their work and stuff like that.' Lowry-Lee says their teams are looking at public assistance, not for damage done on private property. 'The state's requested it as damage assessments just for the public assistance, which is those public infrastructure pieces,' Lowry-Lee said. 'What happens after a storm like this if the state determines that there's damage and that's damage to public infrastructure, that they could submit a request for a disaster declaration, we link up with them, do the damage assessment.' Kinder believes Dade County has certainly met its threshold. 'We're a rural county. We're kind of a poor county and with the amount of damages and stuff that we've had, our current threshold to meet for a FEMA project is around $33,000. We're estimating now over $200,000 that we've had, so that's a big impact to our budget here in the county since our road budget isn't that huge.' 'When a disaster declaration is approved for public assistance, there is no set dollar amount that it's approved for. There's generally a cost share involved. So it's generally 75% federal and 25% local and state concessionaire. So again, it just depends on what those damages are. As the state puts together those projects and begins to make repairs to address those damages, it's a reimbursement on the public assistance side,' Lowry-Lee said. Kinder says she's hoping the roads will be back to normal soon. 'We are rural. There's not a million people that live on the road, but every person counts here in Dade County, so we try to get it together as quickly as we can,' Kinder said. FEMA teams were also in Ozark County on Tuesday, and teams are expected to be in Douglas, Webster and Vernon counties throughout later this week. Copyright 2025 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.
