Mike / www.unicyclemagazine.com

Mixed planting, with 1 PlantLock reserved for an employee who wanted to grow herbs & veg. 

Brixton has its first on-street PlantLocks on Acre Lane & Stockwell Road. Planted with a mixture of low maintenance, drought-tolerant plants (sedums, alpines, wildflowers), and hebes & flowering annuals, shops are caring for the planting.

Cyclists shopping at new Waitrose stores in St. Neots, & Buckingham, now have PlantLocks to securely lock their bikes to.PlantLocks support bicycles well while loading up panniers.

The first bees appear on PlantLocks planted with a flowering crab apple tree & grape hyacinths. 

Gainsborough school, Hackney, and Buckland Brewer school, Devon are some of the latest schools to take deliveries of PlantLocks for their school bikeparking.  And ‘Ecoteachers of the Year’ from Summerhill & Cardinal Newman schools in Brighton & Hove’s Young Environmentalist of the Year Awards were presented with PlantLocks by Oliver Heath (interior designer & TV presenter).   

In a world where domestic and civic design all too often delivers little more than idle affectation, the Front Yard Company’s PlantLock is a joy.  

A mind-bogglingly undercomplicated invention, it simultaneously safeguards your bike, provides greenery and unclutters the house. Moreover, it encourages the use of that great British waste of space known as the front garden.  

If embraced by urban planners, as it must surely be, the double whammy of parking and perking-up the locale can only encourage more people to ditch the infernal combustion engine. 

Security, biodiversity, community and total-feng-shui rolled into one – who knew boron steel could be so brilliant?  

Bugger bringing the Olympics to Britain. £3 billion would buy enough pre-seeded PlantLocks for 50 million bikes. Now that would be a properly meaningful contribution to the health of the nation. 

International design collections must already be making space among the Eames and the Ives. The rest of us just need to move the wheelie bins. 

Oh, those Front Yard people can help there too…

 ”A fantastic, innovative product sure to put a smile on the face of cyclists and gardeners alike. Ideal for London pavements and gardens.” by Erin Gill. The conclusion of a good review of PlantLock in London Cyclist, magazine of the London Cycling Campaign.