London's Very Own Superhero

There's a fuzzy green man roaming the streets of England, and it isn't a hobo. Shrub Man is definitely a superhero for the modern age, attacking environmental bad guys by replacing weeds with pretty posies:

The self-styled Human Shrub, covered in green foliage, struck for the second time on Sunday when he replaced weeds with flowers to transform dormant plant containers in Colchester, eastern England.
The shrub, whose identity remains a secret, first emerged earlier this year when he protested in full plant regalia outside the town hall against Colchester council's plan to turf over rose beds to save money. He waved a banner urging people to "save his brothers the shrubs, and sisters the roses".
The council reversed its decision to tear out and grass over one in five roadside flower beds in Colchester following protests, in an affair dubbed "shrubgate" by opposition councillors.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/2009/jul/08/human-shrub-colchester

I should be surprised, but London's had a serious overflow of superheroes lately, so I guess it's just par for the course...