Last year, Toyota installed temporary harmony floralscapes beside California highways to promote the Prius. On Monday morning, LA Observed reader and Flickr user Matthew Lahey saw that the original floralscape site on the northbound Pasadena Freeway near Downtown had been taken over. Thirty-four white crosses were laid out and a sign posted that read "You Reap What You Sow" — apparently a memorial to victims of Toyota's mechanical defects. By the end of the day, he says, they were gone. Luckily, he had photos and sent them over.

After the jump: what the original floralscape looked like.

The flowers had gone dormant in recent months, as they have at one I see a lot on the Santa Monica Freeway just east of Overland Avenue.

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