Staff at the Rainbow Nursery had grown frustrated with a particular pothole outside their place of work in Thorpe Road.
Despite persistent complaints, they say council bosses have neglected the crater for as long as a year, failing to arrange for it to be fixed.
The nursery workers have now placed plants from their own shelves inside the pothole as a last resort in the hope doing so will grab the council's attention.
Owner Phillip Norris said: “They have been there for over a year and getting progressively worse and there is a very large one on the entrance to the nursery.
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