Blooming Marvellous: Gardening with the Wind
The Guerrilla Gardeners have another weapon to use in the urban jungle. It’s called the Bloom device – and it works like a dandelion.
When the wind whips through it, a dandelion “clock” (or “wishie”, depending on where you are in the world) disperses into a multitude of single-seed fruits borne aloft on a tiny umbrella of fine, silvery hairs. The designers of the Bloom use soap bubbles (natural vegetable soaps and oils). Pedal fast enough on your bike, and enough wind enters the Bloom’s air intake to force a bubble out the other end – containing a plant seed.
So as our Guerrilla Gardeners cycle through the streets of their towns, they leave a trail of bubbles in the air, dropping plant seeds into cracks in the sidewalk, wafting them into verges – into every conceivable nook and cranny where life can take root. It’s a cheeky, quirky, organic process, and we love it. But others will regard it a nuisance, and they’ll fight back. I wonder how?
- via Guy Kawasaki
Image: Society Creative IIc.
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June 23rd, 2008 at 9:30 pm
I absolutely love this. Earth Beautification by transportation! That’s a good way to flip the current paradigm!
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