Groups of kids have set up in the streets with large wheel barrows full of plants. Fundraising for a sports team, or the Dutch version of a lemonade stand.
No, my friend says.
Once a year you can pull paving stones up from in front of your house and exchange them for plants or flowers. One brick per plant. These interstitial gardens are all over Haarlem.
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13. Exchange
In Amsterdam, one can ask the municipality to come over, tear up some sidewalk tiles adjacent to a residential building's wall, and make space for a "geveltuin(tje)", a house front garden.
The requestor then can freely plant flowers and other foliage things to make it pretty.
Garden is a vast exaggeration, but it's cute to have one.
It's all for free, so quite something in the Netherlands.
My downstairs neighbor was super excited when she filed the request, and she was ecstatic when it happened. Now we have a teeny tiny little mini-garden that dogs can use as a pee-pee / poo-poo place.
Still much better than those gray cement tiles.
Does Haarlem offer the same service?