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Auckland Hill
Featherstone Ivy
Cranfield Central
Pitfold Road
Sweet Sutton Court Road
Great Guildford Street
Charlie's Patch
Westminster Wedding Leftovers
Cleaver Pansies
Netted Pearman
Loving Lovelace
Bagneres de Bigorre Square
Borough Belle
Princess Street
Newington Causeway
Marchmount Street
Union Street
Ryland Road
Tabard Tulips
Clare's Piazza
Ed's Pansies
Sutherland Avenue Tulips
Trafalgar Square Pop Up
Brockwell Park Tulips
Awesome Ayrsome
Lambeth North Station
Memorial Garden
Wild West Norwood
Amber's Herb Garden
Austin's Sunflowers

Auckland Hill

On July 24, 2012 By Richard Reynolds

Location: Auckland Hill, London SE27
Lead Pimpers: Wayne Trevor
Documented: 20 July 2012
Description:
Wayne shared this news: “Previously it was a barren tree pit loved only by dogs. I loosened the top soil, added some new compost and planted African marigolds and impatiens bought cheaply from my high street garden [...]

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Featherstone Ivy

On July 12, 2012 By Richard Reynolds

Location: Featherstone Street, London EC1Y
Lead Pimpers: Anonymous, but suspected to be Fraser Brown or MacKenna
Documented: 6 July 2012
Description:
Spotted this pretty little pair of tree pits while cycling past. Variegated ivy has been used to good effect for easy all year round greenery. The delicate grasses may have [...]

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Cranfield Central

On July 12, 2012 By Richard Reynolds

Location: Cranfield Road, London SE4
Lead Pimpers: Nick Barron
Documented: 30 June 2012
Description:
These sweet peas and unidentified pink flower were spotted and tweeted about by me, and a few hours later, through the magic of technology the pimper revealed himself as Nick Barron, the man behind Brockley [...]

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Pitfold Road

On July 11, 2012 By Richard Reynolds

Location: Pitfold Road, London SE12 9JB
Lead Pimpers: Anonymous
Documented: 9 July 2012
Description:
A local resident shared this photograph of anonymous pavement pimping in their street. Love In The Mist, perhaps even self seeded but surviving, is thriving around the base of a cherry tree that is bursting out of [...]

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Sweet Sutton Court Road

On July 4, 2012 By Richard Reynolds

Location: Sutton Court Road, London W4 3EG
Lead Pimpers: Karen Liebreich
Begun: 25 May 2012
Documented: 3 July 2012
Description:
Where once there was an empty tree pit on a busy main road with vans parking and driving over it leaving ugly tyre tracks Karen tried pavement pimping. At [...]

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Great Guildford Street

On June 20, 2012 By Richard Reynolds

Location: Great Guildford Street, London SE1
Lead Pimpers: Valerie Beirne and colleagues at Better Bankside.
Begun: 25 May 2012
Documented: 20 June 2012
Description: Val and her colleagues work for Better Bankside, a Business Improvement District. One of their initiatives is the Bankside Urban Forest which seeks to improve the [...]

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Charlie’s Patch

On June 19, 2012 By Richard Reynolds

Location: ‘Charlie’s Patch’, Bowden Street, London SE11 4DX
Lead Pimpers: Penny Ritchie Calder, Cleaver Street and Bowden Street Residents Association.
Begun: 23 September 2011
Documented: 15 June 2012
Description: A little pocket garden, overlooked by a house in which Charlie Chaplin once lived, featuring wooden planters and beds containing a mix [...]

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Westminster Wedding Leftovers

On June 5, 2012 By Richard Reynolds

Location: Westminster Bridge Road, London SE1
Lead Pimpers: Lyla and Richard Reynolds
Documented: 5 June 2012
Description: The table decorations from our wedding were herbs and perlagoniums. This morning we collected them from the Garden Museum where we’d had the reception and got them into this tree pit, which we’d tentatively begun [...]

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Cleaver Pansies

On May 30, 2012 By Richard Reynolds

Location: Cleaver Street , London SE11
Lead Pimpers: Anonymous
Documented: 27 May 2012
Description: Just round the corner from one of London’s grand Georgian squares, all be it a square that’s gravelled rather than planted, local residents are compensating for this by planting up the pavements near the bicycle racks. On a [...]

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Netted Pearman

On May 30, 2012 By Richard Reynolds

Location: Pearman Street , London SE24
Lead Pimpers: Anonymous
Documented: 30 May 2012
Description: Pearman Street is a shady avenue of terraced homes with tiny front gardens. But many residents here pack them full of pots and climbers and a few spill over into the street too. While the best display Read Full Article →

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