
We had a wonderful time, to say the least. Wheen celebrated the launch of his retrospective book at the Dalston Eastern Curve Garden, which is delightful enough when not accompanied by tiny-garden-related festivities, so imagine our joy when we were greeted by two performance artists portraying human gardens and given goodie bags with various veggie seeds, as well as miniatures of our own (we got an itty bitty spade and a wine bottle suitable for the likes of Barbie and Ken).

Everyone was going wild hash-tagging the event at #LBLG, which sent our own social media extraordinaire into flurries of live blogging as she snapped away at the very photogenic plot.
It was certainly a night worthy of Steve Wheen’s fabulous new book, The Little Book of Little Gardens, which is available now from your favourite booksellers and published by our friends at Dokument Press. The book is fun and inspiring, but it is also an important look at today’s street art culture. It features a foreword from Kate McAuley.
So next time you’re walking down a crumbling sidewalk, look down, and try not to trample any of Steve Wheen’s lovely gardens!