One thing that always amazes me is how people react to my gardens. So much so that I’ve created this short film, Holes Of Happiness (with the help of Cheyne and friends).
We tried to capture peoples first reactions to our gardening antics, and we asked them about what they were looking at and why they thought they existed.
Let me know what you think!
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Everyone loves mail, right?
Yesterday, I headed out with Zing from The East London Gardener to create a little Autumnal garden, complete with a little mailbox.
I also caught this fantastic busker at Columbia Road Markets – check him out!
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I’m not sure if you’ve heard about them, but a blogger picked up some seriously dodgy photoshopping of some Filipino government officials recently, and they’ve become an internet sensation! The trio have been photoshopped everywhere, from South Park to The Price Is Right – check out the Facebook page.
I found it so amusing I’ve put them in one of my pothole gardens!
Here’s a short video showing how my latest little garden came about – enjoy!
Thanks to HUMTOO for the great music track.
I also wanted to post a link to the inspiring work of Anna Garforth who has just made a series growing tube signs – check it out here.
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On my recent outing with Stephanie, we created this little bundle of colour outside A and B Tyres, much to the amusement of the owner.
After being pestered about it for the past few months, I’ve finally got off my butt and created a Facebook page, I’m also tweeting here.
Also, thanks to Hanna Welin for this great write up about our adventures gardening. Stay tuned as I’ve some very exciting news which I’ll be announcing here on the blog shortly…
Yesterday I posted some snaps of my Wimbledon garden – as promised here is a short video that Tom and I put together featuring a squirrel and pigeon who were very interested in what we were doing!
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Wimbledon kicks off tomorrow. Happy memories of queuing, eating strawberries and sipping champagne spring to mind. As a big Wimbledon fan myself (I spent a day in queue a few years back) I decided to create a wee garden to celebrate the start of this fantastic tournament.
True to Wimbledon form, it started to rain as soon as we started creating this little pothole garden. We had some interesting local wildlife visit us including a squirrel and a pigeon during the dig (video to follow shortly).
We did, of course, need to mow the grass before proceedings began…
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A while back I experimented with my first “wall garden“. Here’s my second attempt (pictures just in, thanks to Stephanie Wolff). A colourful array of Pansies have brightened up this little hole which has made the perfect pot. I think it works really well with the graffiti on the wall.
Speaking of wall gardens, last night my mate Kate showed me this amazing creation outside the National Gallery in Trafalgar Square, London. This living wall is a recreation of Van Gough’s A Wheatfield, with Cypresses. An incredible 8,000 plants make up this living wall.
If you get a chance, check it out. It is absolutely spectacular.
Thanks so much to Kate McAuley for introducing me to this great garden, and for these great pics.
By the way, if you’re inspired by these vertically challenged creations, Urban Allotments have vertical garden kits for sale.
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 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.
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
Here’s some pics from my 5th Dig, next to North View Road in North London. Design by Al!
I used some more delicate plants on this dig, as we hoped our little garden might survive a little longer on the footpath!
5th pothole garden in progress...
5th pothole garden in progress...
5th pothole garden in progress...
5th pothole garden almost complete...
5th Dig - with props!
