19-04-2025
Birmingham mystery gardener fills road pothole with plant - and everyone has the same reaction
Potholes usually drive motorists to despair as they bounce around in their seats.
But a mystery green-fingered person is bringing a little smile to faces after filling in a deep hole with a plant.
The pink Bizzie Lizzy has been planted on Kings Road in Kings Heath and has been bringing a little joy to passers-by.
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It was spotted a local man called Nick who was out on a walk on Good Friday afternoon.
He said: "I pulled over and felt I had to take a picture of it - it really made me smile.
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"People were driving past and smiling, or stopping their cars to have a good look.
"One lady laughed and shouted from her car asking if I'd done it, I told her I hadn't, but I wish I did !
"Obviously there's a serious point to it though - Kings Road, like so many other roads in Birmingham, is blighted by pot holes so deep you can plant a flower in it.
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"We have to wait months, if not years, for repairs, and all too often when the holes are repaired they soon come back again."
Meanwhile, in a different region of the Midlands, Sandwell Council was showing off a new £155,000 machine which will slash the time it takes to fill some of the borough's potholes
The tractor, named the Multevo Multihog road planer, is said to shave hours off the time it takes crews to fill the hazardous holes in the borough's roads.
Cllr Paul Moore, the Labour-run council's deputy leader, said the authority was spending £55m on highways this year and despite the purchase of the new machinery, Sandwell's roads were already among some of the best in the country.
