I recently ran into this photo and article thought it was too cool not to pass on:

As taken from Urban Gardens, this describes the photo above:

“Gardens Thrive on Top of City Busses

Bus Roots is a living garden planted on the roofs of city buses. It’s an effort that rose out of New York City designer Marco Antonio Castro Cosio’s graduate thesis at the NYU. The project aims to reclaim the forgotten space on the tops of city buses, while enhancing the quality of urban life by proliferating green spaces on these unused bus roofs. A prototype of the rolling gardens has been installed on the roof of the BioBus, a mobile science laboratory and the first bus with an extensive green roof system. It has been growing for five months while travelling around New York City and as far as Ohio…”

To read the rest of the article and get more info on this project, please visit http://www.urbangardensweb.com/2011/02/01/gardens-on-top-of-city-busses/

Urban Gardens has a BUNCH of other super awesome posts to check out. My favorites include:

http://www.urbangardensweb.com/2012/03/02/sitting-pretty-in-concrete-chesterfield-sofa/

http://www.urbangardensweb.com/2011/12/17/how-to-make-a-vertical-garden-from-disposable-cups/

http://www.urbangardensweb.com/2012/03/13/going-all-soft-for-pillow-planters/