Flower Power on the I-405 Freeway

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20091001-PN01-LANDSCAPE-JG.jpgA floral display depicting a car and and trees along the north side of the San Diego (405) Freeway near Orange Ave. was completed toady in Long Beach, Calif.
The display is part of the California Department of Transportation's Enhanced Landscape Planting Demonstration Project (ELP). The program modeled after the Caltrans Adopt-A-Highway Program provides the opportunity for sponsors to install and maintain highly detailed and themed plantings of drought tolerant shrubs, ground cover and annual and perennial flowers on up to one-half acre along highway roadsides.

ELP sponsors are required to maintain a minimum of three acres of the existing landscape around the floral display at no cost to Caltrans. This display is sponsored by Toyota as are six are locations in Los Angeles County.

Other spots are;
• Westbound Santa Monica Freeway (I-10) Lincoln Avenue off-ramp, just south of the gore point, in the city of Santa Monica.

•Eastbound Santa Monica Freeway (I-10) National Boulevard/Overland Drive on-ramp right shoulder.

•Eastbound Foothill Freeway (I-210) Marengo Avenue/Los Robles Avenue on-ramp right shoulder, in the city of Pasadena.

•Westbound Ventura Freeway (US 101) just south of the Louise Avenue bridge in the city of Los Angeles.

•Westbound Pomona Freeway (SR-60) just west of the Lorena Street bridge in the city of Los Angeles.

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This blog is a journal of Long Beach, California, through the lens of Jeff Gritchen. It will be updated frequently with the pictures, photo tips and musings from the various assignments he covers as a staff photographer for the Press-Telegram.

Gritchen has been documenting the diverse city of Long Beach since 1998. He covers everything from the Cambodian community to prep sports to gang ridden neighborhoods to the annual running of the Long Beach Grand Prix. He covered destruction Hurricane Katrina brought to Long Beach, Mississippi and traveled to Southeast Asia to document a rural Cambodian girl's as she traveled to the U.S. for life-altering heart surgery. He has won numerous state and national awards, including an international NPPA Best of Photojournalism award in 2003. He can be contacted at
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