Dressed in a perfect mix of garden rustic and urban rust the Gahanna Plant Library ads and arty…read morestreet coolness to the Creekside environs--add its sense of community its function strengthens, this idea should be copy in all neighborhoods of Central Ohio.
The trend to reuse and refit urban structures that have gone to disuse has been in style for years now, mainly manifesting into mom-and-pop bistros, trendy micro breweries, or artistic spaces and gallory--mainly indy businesses that absolutely deserve our support in these harrowing times. But places like this are even more dear, as it's a place for green thumb locals to trade plants, give to fellow gardeners, and support each other for no price nor profit. A community building and solidifying center much indeed during these times.
The plant library, if you are unfamiliar, is as its name suggest, a place you can get plants and other items for free. But unlike book libraries, you dont borrow plants, you pick up some by trading another; a kinda swap. Sitting in a abandon self-serve carwash locals also trade planters, seeds, and other item a fellow prospective botanist would desire. Just come in and sit down items and pick others up, kinda like the small book share boxes found around the city.
Even more cool and community centric the Plant Library doubles as a art gallery with multiple units feature street-ish art murals, large canvas pieces, colorfully painted building structure, and interactive community wall with witty and sophomoric writing adds a street cool to the place.
The background is: the place originated by the owners of Blank Slate Coffee, the coffee truck found on its premises, but then it feel out of favor for a couple year. Then the pesty bug came and shut everything down. A resident of Gahanna, while unemployed during the pandemic lockdowns took up the hobby of gardening and found it psychologically and spiritually fulfilling. So she gain community support via Facebook and got it reopened.
Of course being winter now there wasn't any plants there now. The art work still makes it a trip worth going. I am a brown thumb though, everything alive I touch dies, lol, so I will have no use for that aspect, but it is a great place for those that can grow the greenery.
