Salad days at Foyles bookshop
A bookshop window in Charing Cross Road where salads are grown has been shortlisted for a green award.
Foyles is growing tomatoes in a pail, climbing peas in a water tank and pots of peas, radishes and lettuce. The plants are sold in the shop's café, and it has now been shortlisted for the Green Corners competition.
Other winners included Olley's Fish Experience, a fish and chip chop whose floral display brightens up Herne Hill; a traffic island and hospital garden cared for by Guerrilla Gardeners in Lambeth, and Sarastro restaurant in Drury Lane.
The year long contest is run by the Conservation Foundation which was set up by David Bellamy and David Shreeve in 1982.
"Whilst Green Corners may be small, often secret places, they can be home to a host of plants and insects which added together play an important role in the quality of life and health of Londoners," said Mr Shreeve.
"As well as bringing biodiversity to the urban landscape, they will enable individuals, communities and business to play their part in greening the city for the 2012 Olympics."
