Here’s a little garden dedicated to the humble London phone box.
Thanks to Stephanie from London Insight for these great pics of my garden.
Also, a big thank you to Kate from I am not a celebrity for my brand-new-hand-me-down bike.
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Growing up in Australia, my childhood memories are chock full of adventures at the clothes line.
On my recent outing with Stephanie Wolff, I created this little clothes line garden complete with pegs, clothes basket, a fork and a spade.
Thanks again to Stephanie for these fab pics! You can read her blog, London Insight here.
Todd Bieber recently sent me this video, which documents his vigilante garden in Brooklyn. It reminded me of the vegetable pothole garden I recently blogged about.
Enjoy!
While Chelsea flower show might be in full swing (my invite is obviously still in the mail…) so are my little gardens. I headed out today with my friend Stephanie Wolff from London Insight, to create some little beauties. I thought I’d post a few – more are on the way shortly.
As you can see the gardens at Chelsea aren’t the only gardens in London that are having issues with the wind…
OK so this last one isn’t a pothole garden, more of a wall garden 
The very kind folks over at PG Tips have given me some tickets (two pairs) to BBC Gardeners’ World Live, which is taking place from the 15th – 19th June at Birmingham NEC. It’s all sponsored by PG Tips in aid of their new range of New Ones.
If you’re keen for these tickets, just drop me an email – thepotholegardener@yahoo.com with PG Tips in the subject line, along with your name and I’ll randomly choose two winners on the 9th of June.
Good luck!
Here’s my latest little garden. It’s a little bit different to my other Garden’s as there’s no mini-furniture, or even flowers (I know it’s not the prettiest but it has a purpose!).
I’ve been inspired by recent projects such as The Green Line and Landshare, and so decided to create a mini-vegetable patch.
The kind folk over at Urban-Allotments posted me some bits and pieces (I’ve never received plants in the mail, but why not!) and here is my mini-veggie patch with lettuce. I’ll keep you updated on how it goes
Hopefully I’ll be eating a salad with lettuce leaves from my pothole garden later this summer!
Oh, and to whoever stole my bike a few weeks back, I hope you’re taking good care of her.
I blogged yesterday about my adventures with Kate McAuley over in the Queen’s postcode creating a little garden to celebrate the upcoming royal wedding.
Well, we shot a wee video and here it is. Enjoy!
Thanks again to Kate McAuley you can check out her work on I am not a celebrity and Weather to Wear.
This morning I headed over to Pimlico. Now for those of you who know me, to date my pothole gardens have mainly been around East London. So why Pimlico I hear you ask…
Well I headed over to the Queen’s postcode to meet Kate McAuley, of I am not a celebrity and Weather to Wear, to create a little garden to celebrate the royal wedding!
Here is my little garden. Good luck to Will and Kate (my invite must have been lost in the mail…).
I will post the video when it’s finished.
Oh, and I’m on twitter too!
I was recently sent this picture along with the note:
Whilst driving on Mexico’s Yucatan highway 261 between Dzibalchen and Xpuhil in the Campeche region we hit this massive pothole. As a result we lost our hub cap which after a bit of searching we managed to retreive (along with two others found only metres apart). I thought this would be a great addition for your site. I think the pot holes here are more enormous than London can produce. We were fortunate some of the 3 wheel bikes that are used by the locals to get between their crops / farms and home were not in the oncoming path of our hub cap missile.
Now that is a pothole (with a very artistic head). Thanks so much for sending that to me, I do love getting mail!
Speaking of getting stuff in the mail I was stoked to get a copy of this book recently, and was even more delighted to read a section on my pothole gardening!
The book, Growing Vegetables, Flowers, Fruits, and Herbs From Containers is available from Atlantic publishing.
Just around the corner of my house, this hole in the pavement has been annoying me…it’s huge, check it out!
It’s so huge, in fact, that I decided I couldn’t tackle it alone, so I enlisted some help! The Homebase team very generously helped me out by supplying all the compost and plants for this dig, my biggest yet!
This must be one of the biggest potholes in London!
As usual I ended up with a bunch of spectators who were not quite sure how to take the garden in progress!
Pizza delivery guy whizzing past…
From above
Here’s the final garden.
Stay tuned for my next garden – I’m heading out with my friend Kate from i am not a celebrity and partner in crime in Weather to Wear (our fashion forecast based on the weather) to bring you a Will and Kate royal wedding special!
Thanks again to Homebase, who provided all the tools and materials to create this garden! You can shop online and buy everything you need for your garden (big or small…), from plants and compost through to garden furniture and greenhouses.
The sunny weekend in London inspired me to head up to Columbia road markets and do some gardening. I found a nice new home for these ranunculus just near Arnold Circus in Shoreditch.
Thanks to Tom my new gardening buddy for his help!
Enjoy
Just a quick note to say congratulations to the winners of the Mothers day vouchers I blogged about recently.
Lucy Allen, Liz Ixer and Renee Walker will all be getting some flowers delivered courtesy of Interflora later this week. Thank you Interflora for supporting the pothole gardener!
I know I haven’t posted any gardens recently, sadly my bike was stolen so I’ve been out of action. But don’t worry, I’m currently creating some new gardens so stay tuned
To help brighten up an otherwise fairly gloomy weekend, I created my latest little garden around the corner from Wilton’s Music Hall.
The kind folk supplying flowers online, Interflora, have offered their support to my blog by giving away 3 fantastic treats from their flower shops (check out the goodies here, here and here) to subscribers of the pothole gardener. 3 people who have subscribed to this blog will be chosen at random and sent one of the items before Mother’s Day! Simply subscribe to this blog by entering your email address in the box on the right hand side of this page and I’ll post up the winners names on the 30th of March and you’ll get your flowers delivered before Mother’s Day.
It’s been so chilly lately that gardening hasn’t been on the top of my list of things to do I have to say. But with the recent warmish weather I’ve been inspired to get back out and hit the streets armed with a load of bulbs and some compost.
On yesterdays dig I was joined by Wendy Hurrell and the lovely crew from Inside London and we ventured to Sutton in South London where there is certainly no shortage of potholes.
More pictures to follow shortly!
Thanks to Dave and Bec who sent this pothole magic through. The little snowman is awesome, what a great idea! Tres bien!
Speaking of France, I was recently interviewed by French TV show Cauet Fait Le Tour and I took them on a little potholing expedition. Check it out!
Right as I was heading out to do a little Christmas garden, about 5 centimetres of snow descended from the heavens!
Merry Christmas!
Speaking of Christmas, this group of cyclists sure are spreading the Christmas cheer 
Earlier this year I spoke with Navid, a budding young filmmaker.
I thought I’d post his great little film about Guerilla Gardening.
Oh, and there will be a pothole garden with a Christmas theme coming soon so stay tuned
http://player.vimeo.com/video/17140652
Living Graffiti – The Story of Guerrilla Gardening from Navid Khayati-Daryan on Vimeo.
I recently headed out on a dig with a French TV crew for some guerilla gardening…it was load of fun – they sure were up for an adventure.
I snapped my latest little garden right before it was rundown 
(I’m totally addicted to the hipstamatic app on my iphone!)
A winter garden
Here’s an excerpt from my recent interview for a German TV channel that I did earlier in the year…
As a massive fan of the ever inspiring 1000 Awesome Things blog, I thought I’d celebrate the release of the book in the UK by adding a ‘copy’ of it to my latest little garden!
My recent trip with photographer and blogger, Stephanie Wolff from London Insight was loads of fun. Check out her great pics below!
Flower art!
My first wall garden!
C/U Wall garden...almost looks fake!
My latest garden...
So yesterday’s cloudy weather didn’t deter punters at Columbia Rd. markets, it was super busy! I managed to grab some Gerberas and pansies for a couple of digs for the afternoon. I headed out with Stephanie from Londoninsight (pics to follow shortly!).
Columbia Rd Markets
I also decided to try out London’s new cycle hire scheme. If you want to know more about the scheme, check it out. My thoughts? If you’re not in a hurry, these bikes are great. They’re comfy and easy to ride. They cruise nicely, although I’m not sure I’d want to be heading up a steep hill on one. They do have a great little bag carrier on the front too (handy for pot plants!) I did feel like a Barclay’s advert, but hey I guess someone had to pay for them.
London Bike Hire
So here is my latest dig with Yellow Gerberas just off Bethnal Green Road…
My latest creation
We’ve recently shot a short film about these little gardens and we’re looking for music for the film. You can check it out and pitch your music tracks here on HUMTOO.
pothole from Dili!
Rosie sent this picture to me today and I had to post it – now this is a pothole!!! It’s from Dili, East Timor. You could almost get a whole rainforest in there…
I’m working on a new garden which I’ll post pictures of in the next couple of days so stay tuned!
This great story was pointed out to me this morning. Check out these Wonderful little gardens in Northumberland and the write up here!
Great work guys, I hope the council take notice!
(please note these pictures are copyright of Northumberland Gazette)
My recent little garden is in support of the Aussie Cricket team…
Cricket Anyone?
Cricket Anyone?
I added some Pansies to this garden in support of The Pansy Project. They recently had their facebook page taken down for some unknown reason – to learn more check out their site: The Pansy Project.
I was recently sent these photos too which I wanted to post, check out this great effort from Riga!
To celebrate the first day of summer, I created this little garden next to an estate behind my house…happy summer everyone
Summer Is Here!
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My latest creation to celebrate the recent sunshine!
The recent amazing sunshine inspired my latest little garden.
It seems pothole gardens are popping up everywhere, check these awesome pictures just in from Latvia, Riga here! Great stuff! (I do apologize for previously saying it was in Russia!)
In Today’s intermittent sunshine Rabea, Fred and Magnus joined me on my latest dig, well digs – we planted 3 little numbers. I don’t want to reveal all the pics from the digs just yet – but I did want to post a taster below, just snapped on my iphone.
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Dig 10
Dig 11
The past few days have been fairly hectic, to say the least! I’ve managed to get 2 gardens dug, and I’ve also been sent some links I wanted to post up on the blog.
I got a comment on the blog from Richard Reynolds (the godfather of Guerrilla Gardening) that was really positive about my work and I have been feeling quite chuffed ever since. He also pointed me towards some other keen Guerrilla Gardeners of note. The concept of pothole gardening goes back quite a while – the earliest example being a class in the states and also Shannon Spanhake and others have been flexing their green fingers in potholes too. Another great project in Dublin is happening here…
Guerrilla Gardening is all about getting out there, doing something, getting your hands dirty and creating something that improves the space you live in. So go on, get involved and if you need some inspiration, check out the pictures on my blog (mostly taken by Al) or head to the forums here! If you send me some photos of your work I might post them here on the blog.
I’m off to enjoy the sunshine (and hunt for a couple more potholes).
Oh, and I was sent this beauty earlier in the week from Kathy. She describes it as a ‘Surrey Special’…
'Surrey Special' sent in by Kathy
Yesterday was quite a busy day and I managed to complete 2 new digs, both with some company! It seems that my blog has caught the attention and imagination of the press…it’s been a little overwhelming to say the least.
A BBC news crew joined me on Dig 8. I headed up past Old Street to dig this small pothole. Here’s the finished pothole with the cameraman…
Dig 8 with BBC cameraman!
And the finished pothole about to meet it’s destiny…
Dig 8....almost run over!
Dig 9 was back in my old favourite pothole just off Commercial Street. I was joined by Sally, a lovely journalist from ITV.
Dig 9
These photos aren’t as good as Al’s work, but I’ll keep trying!
If you’re into guerrilla gardening (and into pothole gardening) check out some of my contemporaries work, including 2 more pothole gardeners I’ve come across here!
I was quite surprise yesterday to see my blog in the Evening Standard! Here’s the article…
Evening Standard
Dig 7 - note the new graffitti I caught in the background, which was in progress yesterday!
Incidentally I just noticed that the photo I took yesterday had a guy in the background creating some graffiti. (Check out that post below) In these photos, you can see that finished piece of art! Whoever you are, you’re really talented!
Dig 7
