Berlin's guerrilla gardeners cultivate rebellion (BBC)

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Stephen Evans
BBC News, Berlin

Modern Berlin may be a prosperous place but its troubled past has left its mark on the city's character, including a tendency to the alternative. Among the counter-culture railing against society are arsonists, saboteurs, artists and even gardeners.

Petrus Akkordeon, as he calls himself, emerges from the S-Bahn station on to Potsdamer Platz and plants a small flower.

What could be simpler?

Up he comes from the underground into the soulless square, takes out his trowel and digs and gouges between the cracks of the paving stones and plants the shoots - a line of green in the grey of the granite.
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"Everything is grey," he says. "No flowers. No trees. And if you plant one flower, the whole place changes."
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more: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/programmes/from_our_own_correspondent/9545329.stm




Actually about a lot more than just the gardeners ...

[era veteran]

1. Glad to hear

It was really grey in '74 in the GDR. Would like to visit again. My favorite European city.