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Thursday, February 18, 2010 at

Pothole gardens

Artist Pete Dungey plants gardens in the potholes on British roads. "If we planted one of these in every hole," he says, "it would be a like forest in the road."
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  1. Brilliant! It reminds me a little of a book I recently read, "The World Without Us". This little peak of nature in a world of pavement really makes me feel good...

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  2. They should start doing that in downtown Los Angeles too!

    What a creative way of pointing out that something needs to be done!

    I need to start planting gardens in my assistants desk drawers...

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  4. So sweet and yet so temporary. We all know these won't last forever. I love it.

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  5. that is so gosh darn sweet, it's almost makin' my teeth hurt! ;)

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  6. I love this so so much!

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  7. this needs to happen in New Jersey! Our potholes are out of control.

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  8. This is so cool!! Manhattan would be a sea of beautiful flowers!

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  9. I love that!! We have them all over the city, and they are more like ditches than little holes.

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  10. Aww I love this! If everybody planted a garden in a pothole, we'd definitely have a more beautiful world. :)

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  11. UM LOVE THIS!!!! my tires would blush they would be so delighted to get flowers! ; )!

    xoxo

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  12. That is fantastic! I live in St. John's, Newfoundland, and we have so many potholes, too! If anything would actually grow here, I'd go out and do that!

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  14. How great is this!! I would be so sad for people that run over it though... it's just precious. Great close-up!!

    Beatriz.
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  15. What a great idea! My road is fit for a Jeep commercial it has so many pot holes! Great post.

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  16. aw. cute idea!

    if you have time to visit me, i just posted some pics of some fun clothing that i purchased as "maternity wear!" (it's not maternity, but a tres cute alternative!"

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  17. That's a great idea! Maybe I'll do that to my mom's driveway, she's always complaining about them :). That would be a great surprise haha!

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  18. he should go to mexico city, he would have potholes for life, hehe!

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  19. These are great. Where did you find him? Where you just browsing Brighton University website? : )

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  20. I live in Michigan, which means potholes galore! I had a laugh when I saw this cause I imagined what our roads would look like with potted potholes. There would be more garden than road, that's for sure! But what a wonderful idea!

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  21. i love that. it makes me a liiiittttle nervous for those flowers though.

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  22. Gorgeous! What an amazing idea? Do the flowers eventually get trampled? Geez, I hope not, they're too pretty to be smashed!!

    Thanks for the picture!

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  23. Love it! Some people are just so awesome.

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  24. So cheerful, I love it.

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  25. If he could pop round and plant some of ours up - the snow has left our roads riddled with potholes!

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  26. This is so clever! But my heart would brake if anyone mistakenly ran over the flowers...

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  28. I love this! it looks like a little fairy village up close :)

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  29. so simple...yet so genius! I think its darling!!

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  30. HAHA this makes me laugh

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  31. In Indianapolis the road would be a garden right now after all the snow/salt that's been on our roads!

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  32. I just love things like this! Creating something lovely out of something awful! Just wonderful!

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  33. Would this be like making a silk purse out of a sow's ear, LOL... Love it! Very creative.

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  34. That is the happiest thing I've EVER seen.....how cute!

    Warm blessings,
    Spencer

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  35. Anonymous6:33 PM

    so cute... but I already feel bad for when they get run over! I once tripped and fell in the middle of the road because of a dang pothole and then almost got run over... flowers would have helped!

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  36. What an amazing idea! I love it!

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  37. Oh this is brilliant! :D

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  38. This is the sweetest idea ever. It's literal street art! :) xo

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  39. these are gorgeous!

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  40. That's so cool, though don't potholes appear where the tires are suppose to drive over? Everyone would be constantly swerving, which would actually look pretty nice now that I think about it. Cars dancing in a sea of flowers... aww

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  41. oh my god, that's so fantastic! I absolutely love it! The road I take to get to school is plagued with so many potholes, and it just gets worse in the winter with all the rain. I'm inspired to do this just to make my daily commute a little brighter :)

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  42. This is so lovely! Such a cool idea.

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  43. Fantastic. I love finding beauty in unexpected places. But how long would the flowers live, in a sea of cars?

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  44. In theory this is lovely, but wouldn't that cause accidents if people swerved to miss the flowers? I'd also feel really, really bad if I were a driver and ran them over.

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  46. I'm fixin' the holes....
    well, The Beatles...I'm not, but the song works...smiles.

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  47. Good Gosh! If Detroit did this we'd have gardens EVERYWHERE. Which would be lovely of course.

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  49. this is such a charming idea. Although I do not like the idea of a car running over them!

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  50. so sweet... i hope they don't get run over!

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  51. I love that idea. The world needs more gardens.

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  53. perhaps i'll start doing that in hawaii! the roads out here are terrible and could definitely use something delightfully cheery!

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  55. What a beautiful idea! I could plant one right outside my house!

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  56. such a neat idea to bring some sweetness to an otherwise annoying bump in the road. though, i'd be heartbroken to see these gorgeous little gems driven over!

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  57. I just love this...how beautiful.

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  58. this cracks me up. LOVE it!

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  59. oh my what a sweet little surprise!

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  60. This is one of those ideas that sounds sweet but isn't all that thought out--like the idea to leave random little toys around for kids to find or mail letters to everyone in your village. I'm not a party pooper, but I think some old people might think it was an animal in the road in the dark and swerve and crash or something. And kids finding random toys might scare parents. And old people getting random mail might scare old people. Not to mention that when they do eventually repair these potholes, the workers are going to have more work to do to clean it out. And the random toys left around for kids is just more litter blowing around--just like a school releasing balloons to celebrate something is just more sea birds choking. There are plenty of happy cheerful artistic things to do that don't involve old people dying or birds choking. I'm just worried about the old people!

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  62. EEEEP! I love it - what a totally cool idea!

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  63. id like a few of these in san francisco please...not at all practical but cool the same

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  64. such a lovely idea!

    I've always wanted to fill potholes with play-doh :)

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  65. Oh my gosh I love that! If only you could rely on motorists not to run them over :(

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  66. Oh what a cute idea! I hope I see one of these someday.

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  67. they won't last long I guess as far as I know the British car drivers :)but a really nice idea!

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  68. How darling to come across one of these. Really made me smile!
    Karena

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  69. Beautiful &brilliant :)

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  70. That is beautiful. It is like saying that even though there might be bumps in the road, beautiful things and growth may come of those hard times.

    love it.

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  71. I love this idea!

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  72. ah that's lovely- have you heard about the urban gardeners too who go and just plant flowers etc in sad little unused parts cities- fun.

    British roads have LOTS of pot holes so this chap will be busy

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  73. adorable! i can just imagine all the drivers swerving out of their paths to avoid them..

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  74. That is so cool, I love it!

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  75. This really takes the aggravation out of seeing a pothole and swirving to miss it - now you will miss crushing beautiful flowers! Brilliant.

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  77. this is genius!
    i can't even tell you how many potholes i go over in one day. some you just can't avoid. my poor tires...
    i'm sure the rude people here would drive right over those beauties. and then i would have to punch them in the face. hahaha.
    :)

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  78. This is amazing. It reminds me of that famous photo where a hippy placed a flower in a soldier's gun.

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  79. oh what a nice post! i love this idea!

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  81. He would have his work cut out for him in Manhattan...but it would be quite the site

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  83. What a delightful surprise.

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  84. oh my goodness. favorite post of the week. love it!

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  85. I love it, but... I think I would find myself swerving to not run over the flowers. I see accidents.

    But it does look absolutely gorgeous. :)

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  86. First of all, Diana, you worry too much. Second of all, I can see accidents happening too, but people swerve to avoid animals, so it's going to happen anyhow.

    Third, I'm doing this to two potholes in my driveway! Hahaha! We've always thought it would be quaint to have a drive with tall grass growing down the center...why not some hardy little flowers in the holes?

    The only drawback is that they also serve as wonderful birdbaths...

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  87. I love it! I'm afraid they'd get destroyed but it does brighten them up and help drivers avoid them!

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  88. Genius. Wouldn't it be great if every blight in life was rectified with such cleverness and beauty??

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  89. Great idea! But I think he doesn't know italian roads and their potholes...

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  90. what a lovely idea.

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  91. Magnificent. How awesome that would be to see!

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  92. This is beautiful, but how does he keep them alive?

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  93. How brilliant. What a beautiful expression of optimism! And if it maybe draws some attention to the poor state of the roads, so much the better. :)

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  94. wow,
    if we planted one of these in every hole in indonesia the entire country would be a jungle
    gotta love those quirky brits, ahem

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  103. Hi those flowers there look so nice but those are in danger of being run over.

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  107. Love it! But it would be upsetting to see any of those beautiful flowers get run over.

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  130. Anonymous11:06 AM

    Really cool but totally impractical, of course. Plus, the roots of plants will only cause MORE cracking and potholes. But they look pretty!

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