Last time I wrote about guerilla gardening in terms of re-purposing things like old, unused newspaper and flyer bins as well as old election posters for use as planters. This time, it’s back in Toronto for the re-posting of flyer ads as cone planters.

The reason that I love this type of guerilla gardening is that it isn’t hurting anything while getting a bit of a message across and almost takes on an aura of public art in that it heightens pedestrian’s curiousity, causing them to break their daily habits and pause, examine and smile. It’s a day brightener for many.

And then while Spacing Magazine doesn’t say what or if anything happened to these throughout the day, I think it would be cool if after awhile people starting taking them down and giving them to people, furthering the act of brightening someone’s day. It would’ve been fun actually if notes had been attached to the plants directing this type of behavior because afterall they can’t survive in those little cones forever. Then the plants could be planted by the receiver, thus furthering the spread of plants throughout the city.

images via Spacing Magazine