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This is the third summer for these flowers, growing wild on the outside ledge of the Roberto Clemente Bridge. I’ve been watching them each summer, beginning two years ago with a single flower growing from a bit a moss the size of a thumb to this year’s healthy spread. All I can figure is that they’ve become self-sustaining: As the plants die and decompose in winter, they create that much more organic matter for even more flowers to bloom in the following year.
This article appears in Sep 5-11, 2012.
how lovely! i hope this encourages more seed-bombing and moss graffiti in pittsburgh.