It feels like I have a new favorite guerilla-planting every week, and this week, it’s this amazing stenciled utility sink planter on the corner of SE 25th and Ivon in Portland. File under f’n awesome.
This one gets major points for the following reasons:
- Displays polycultural planting in a small space, with tomato, beans, lettuce, basil. (That said, it’s probably planted a little too densely, with one tomato and one bean plant too many.)
- Upcycles an old utiliy sink.
- Water that drains out of the sink flows into another planter below the sink planted with lettuces, which thrive in the shady microclimate underneath.
- Great signage (“Respect Our Local Food” & “Niche Repurposing Public Space”)
- Beautiful stenciling.
- Placement directly on the corner demands attention, but it’s still out of the way enough for pedestrians to navigate around.