Atlanta DOT officials have decided that since traffic won’t be going away they’ll make it more pleasant by adding wild flowers to the roadsides and medians.

Proceeds from the sale of the wildflower license plate will be used to
establish new roadside wildflower gardens as well as plant trees, shrubs and bedding plants and provide ground covers along Georgia’s interstates and state routes. The new tag, which was designed by Georgia DOT Artist Stanley Smith, features the black-eyed Susan with the slogan Georgia on my mind…wildflowers in my heart! Dixie Seal & Stamp Company produced the prototype.

The Georgia DOT spends $220,000 annually on planting and maintaining more than 800 acres of wildflower plots around the state.

This is a good example of the “Southern Way” of fixing a problem, by making it purtier.

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