The city, Bloemfontein (meaning “flower fountain”)’s name celebrates a spring that nurtured an abundant growth of flowers. The urban stream flows through the city is now polluted. The flowers have disappeared. The toxic stream starkly contrasts the once flourishing environment celebrated in the city’ name. Rehabilitation is not considered. The series speaks to many polluted rivers in other cities. This colony of diatoms "flowers" on plastic trash collected in the stream and the previous floral diversity is now only seen on microlevel. Diatoms are responsible for 40 % of the world's oxygen and not considered as much as trees. Diatoms have agency in the Anthropocene Age where the artificial and natural combines. The diatoms appear shipwrecked on the river floor. Questions are raised about the problematic relationships between plastics and microorganisms and how these relationships shape new forms of growth, or on the other hand sadly diminishes the natural environment leading to ruin.