Truck as flower bed

Posted by David Pescovitz, August 20, 2008 11:09 AM | permalink

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MAKE: founder Dale Dougherty went to the California State Fair where he snapped the photo above. Dale writes:

Here is one of my favorite sights, a "green" truck in the Farm area. It's an old truck covered in grass with vegetables and flowers growing in the flat bed. Talk about a raised bed! Think how the yards of rural America could be transformed once rusty wrecks become warm and fuzzy, like something out of a Pixar movie.

Grass-covered truck (Makezine.com)

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#1 posted by Xopher , August 20, 2008 11:17 AM

Sort of a truck garden, huh?

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#2 posted by Tirjasdyn

, August 20, 2008 11:31 AM

the yards of rural America aren't filled with old trucks.

sigh.

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#3 posted by Bob Doles Communist Doppelganger , August 20, 2008 11:32 AM

All hail the truck farmer!

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#4 posted by jathomas , August 20, 2008 11:49 AM

Awesome, but I would really hate having to pay vehicle tax on my flower bed, however...

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#5 posted by mdhatter

, August 20, 2008 12:17 PM

Sweet! A 1947 Dodge sod-body!

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#6 posted by Anonymous , August 20, 2008 12:21 PM

Soon, coming to a Hummer near you!

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#7 posted by Nora Rocket

, August 20, 2008 12:40 PM

I *just* saw a pick up with a bed filled with dirt and flowers on the street in Cambridge (MA) this weekend! Nice!

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#8 posted by Anonymous , August 20, 2008 1:40 PM

Part of a display at the Jardin botanique de Montréal one year was a VW Beetle that had been planted in much the same way.

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#9 posted by mdhatter

, August 20, 2008 2:01 PM

Ch-Ch-Ch-Chia!

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#10 posted by Razzbar , August 20, 2008 4:26 PM

Banyan tree growing out of a '52 Dodge:
http://agarmedium.com/48aca6c0

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#11 posted by brokebutstilldrinking , August 20, 2008 5:47 PM

Could you get arrested for drinking then trying to drive a flower bed?

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#12 posted by AlanJCastonguay , August 21, 2008 5:55 AM

There's a similar flower bed parked on the street in Toronto's Kensington Market: http://flickr.com/photos/alanjcastonguay/sets/72157606794927729/

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#13 posted by Purly

, August 21, 2008 6:09 AM

I see these all the time in upstate NY.

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#14 posted by wolfiesma , August 21, 2008 11:48 AM

This would be so nice to climb in and sit down. It looks so much more comfortable than your typical outdoor furniture. I really want to make a grass chair kind of thing.