Tulips on Troost: Pothole Gardens

Tulips on Troost aims to change the face of Troost Avenue by planting one million tulips along the Avenue in honor of an early Kansas City leader, Dr. Benoist Troost. Through this mission, we hope to inspire and motivate the citizens of Kansas City to recognize the value of neighborhood capital improvements and beautification in some of the city's most under-served neighborhoods. Tulips are just on the surface—our deep-rooted goal is to use a beautiful, accessible thing like a tulip to represent positive change on Troost and to let the city know that Troost is worth our time, efforts, and resources.

Pothole Gardens

Posted by Maureen 0 comments

I noticed this post from Bon Bon Atelier today, and felt it fit right in with Tulips on Troost's ideas for relatively unconventional beautification. Anyone want to get on this project? ;)

I was perusing Cup of Jo the other day and saw artist Pete Dungey's instillation work in England..he plants gardens in potholes to highlight the problem of surface imperfections on Britain's roads.

Someone should do this in KC..with the amount of potholes here we could probably plant enough to swing the environment back in the right direction.

And then you would see the potholes and not hurt your car. Sorry VW!