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Have you seen these Tiny Parks popping up in tube ticket offices?
Green-fingered guerrilla gardeners The Edible Bus Stop are working with TfL to turn old ticket booths into leafy oases
Has your commute got a little greener lately? Guerilla gardeners The Edible Bus Stop have worked with TfL to turn a series of disused tube ticket offices into urban oases.
The so-called Tiny Parks have cropped up at four appropriately named stations: St James’s Park (where the scheme was first trialled in 2017), Kilburn Park, Belsize Park and Wood Green.
The plants only need watering around once a month, and are chosen for their positive effect on air pollution – and on commuters’ moods.
Keep your bleary eyes open for a tropical paradise in a ticket booth near you.
Photography by Andy Parsons.
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