[ruuda]

In Utrecht, the municipality will lend you a bakfiets with all the equipment you need (soil, shovel, tile cutter) to replace a few tiles in front of your house with plants. You don't need a permit to do it. https://www.utrecht.nl/wonen-en-leven/parken-en-groen/zelfbe...

[yabatopia]

Bakfiets is Dutch/Flemish for cargo bike.

[telesilla]

>Facade gardens help collect rainwater and plants and flowers are good for butterflies and bees. And they look cozy.

Having your house looking cozy even on the facade is the most dutch thing I've read in a while.

[lucb1e]

How so?

[telesilla]

As a visitor I always found it so charming how strong gezellig is in your culture, even extending to the garden apparently.

[t0mas88]

Very Dutch, doing it by cargo bike.

[lucb1e]

Also practical though. If you live in Utrecht actual, you wouldn't want the municipality to give you a car which you may not be able to park where you live or, if you can, need pay quite a bit of money for the parking

Driving a bicycle to your place is always practical, also considering most of the city is within 3km of the town hall (~10 minutes cycling) and the worst terrain you'll encounter is needing to get over/under a canal