The big Dutch problems:Amsterdam announces crackdown on "wild planter"

Exact:there are too many messy vases in the street, the capital launches itself into the fight against illegal flowers.Citizens banned

ROME – In Amsterdam they have a flower problem.There are too many of them, illegal ones.Vases a little here and a little there.Too much widespread beauty.We need to put a stop to that colorful mess.And so the central district of the Dutch capital declared war on “wild planter”.

The local media has it call own “Operation Flowerpot”:residents will have to limit themselves to two pots with dimensions no greater than 50 cm by 50 cm, made of "sustainable" material and positioned against the facade wall.Illegal pot gardens in car parks and under trees will be confiscated.

Mayor Amélie Strens said during a city council meeting that abandoned pots are unattractive, harmful to biodiversity and make the facilities less accessible to those with mobility aids and strollers.And so he sent on a mission “a person with work experience for several days around the district who he made an inventory of over 900 vases", he said.“There will be stickers with the question:'Do I belong to anyone?Adopt me!’ and a QR code.If someone doesn't respond within six weeks… the city will clean them up.”

They are chronicles from another planet.The inhabitants are a bit perplexed, but – explains Rogier Noyon, president of the local group Voordestad (for the city), “the public space is vulnerable:it belongs to all of us but at the same time it belongs to no one.It's difficult with green, because it has acquired a sacred aura... so residents think that everything that has to do with green is positive.But space is important for people with disabilities, who use an assisted walker, people with strollers.It is the council's job to communicate that public space belongs to all of us, but that this does not mean the law of the jungle“.