Bringing guerilla gardening to inaccessible places. These plant pots will self right even when landing at an extreme orientation, repositioning the plant in them towards the sky. This allows communities to guerilla garden inaccessible places within their cities.

If you have ever ridden a bus in East London you will likely have seen the “Spikey Spuds” atop bus stop roofs in the area. Considered by many to be fine art, they inspired me to also contribute to the public gallery above our heads, only visible from the top of a double decker bus. Tfl has been slow to use these spaces for greenery, struggling with the cost of reinforcing shelters to hold up a large amount of soil. I decided to start the process small to avoid this issue, focusing on plant species that could do the most good in small numbers.

As a guerilla movement without the permits for ladders, I decided to take matters into my own hands, literally throwing plants on top of the shelters. This called for a plant receptacle that could stabilise itself after landing in almost any orientation, and not skid off in high winds and harm a passer by. The “3D printed plant grenade” was born. This pot is now a general purpose way of proliferating plant life into inaccessible areas.

I have plans to create a biodegradable version out of paper mâché over a 3D printed form mould, so the pot does not intrude on the plant once it is placed.