After planting some trashed newspaper dispensers with flowers and herbs, Posterchild is looking at what the city of Toronto is sowing. Instead of foliage, weeds, trash, even more trash, banana peels and “nada” are filling the city planters that Posterchild carefully cataloged. With the small signs, the guerilla gardening street artist hopes to inspire others to claim these misused spaces and at the minimum “discourage people from planting anymore garbage trees.” |Blade Diary|

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In addition to sanctifying subway advertising, Toronto-based street artist Posterchild does guerrilla gardening too. He posted some new photos of his latest project: flower planters built inside trashed and mostly unused distribution boxes for crappy free papers no one wants. Sadly, the flowers don’t last long. Read more »