With blooming flowers and gardening taking over social media just in time for spring, Australian-expat gardener Steven Wheen has brought one of the most Instagrammable trends to the street of Newtown, in the form of tiny pot-hole gardens.

Known as The Pothole Gardener, Wheen has created buzz in the urban guerrilla garden movement in the UK for more than five years now, going undercover to turn dreary corners in urban streetscapes into tiny colour gardens.

One of the creations in Newtown till the end of September. Credit:Christopher Phillips

Having worked on his "passion project" mostly in the UK and Europe, this is the first time he has collaborated with local gardeners and designers to bring the concept to Australia. The idea first bloomed when the young creative was working on a "project around happiness" during his Masters in Design at Central Saint Martins in London.

For Wheen, making city dwellers stop to have a conversation and have a moment of shared happiness has been at the forefront of his work, which has included recreating the Chelsea Gardens, fashion week and even Prince William and Kate's Royal Wedding, all in miniature form.