Opinion by Mail columnist Angus Young.
They say you should always look up if you want to really appreciate Hull city centre.
It's true, of course, because the architecture of some of the buildings above first-floor level is truly spectacular.
These lofty sights are easily missed if you're busy concentrating on avoiding potholes and charity chuggers.
But I made a deliberate point of taking time to look up during a stroll through the city centre the other day.
And what did I find?
Plants of all varieties sprouting from unlikely heights.
It's easy to imagine the odd stray seed being accidentally dropped by a dozy pigeon into some already clogged-up guttering on an empty building and, before you know it, there's greenery budding forth.
The small bushes growing out of various places on the derelict former Edwin Davis department store in Bond Street are a good example.
However, I was surprised by the sheer scale of it on view if you look hard enough.
On the back of Guildhall, an explosion of green leaves is currently nestling behind one of the main downpipes.
Across at the Maritime Museum in Queen Victoria Square, what looks like a mini-forest of weeds appears to be growing on a first floor balcony.
But my favourite is a healthy-looking tree waving in the breeze on the upper floor of the nearby building occupied by Caffè Nero.
I was on my way to a council meeting where various ideas on tackling food poverty were due to be discussed.
One involves a proposal to convert an ornamental flower bed in the city centre into a mini-allotment.
I was even shown a planned lay-out for the plot, featuring beds of carrots, broccoli, sprouts, beetroot, peas and broad beans.
A similar scheme has already proved popular in Tordmorden in West Yorkshire, where fruit and veg are now being grown outside a variety of public buildings and the town's railway station, and can be cultivated, picked and eaten by anyone.
I'm not sure the same thing could work here, with theft being the most obvious risk.
Then again, kids today think tomatoes are made in Tesco factories.
Instead, why not stick a few fruit and veg plots out of reach on rooftop gardens across the city centre?
After all, as I found out this week, there are already quite of few up and running already.
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