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Guerrilla Gardening is a movement which seeks to take unused / ugly plots of neglected land and grow plants and vegetables. It is a loose movement with a variety of projects.

Guerrilla Gardening may begin as an illicit activity of just planting in a certain area. In a way the thrill of guerrilla gardening is a combination of the illicit activity and the action of improving the local environment. It could be viewed as a beautiful form of vandalism. A kind of reverse graffiti.

If you look around your city / town, there is a bound to be a neglected area full of weeds / unnecessary concrete e.t.c.

There are many different things that can be done as part of Guerrila Gardening

• Planting bulbs / plants in an area devoid of colour
• Protecting weeds grown in a variety of places.
• Clearing up litter
• Taking up unnecessary concrete and planting in it.
• watering / feeding half a bed of plants to give a different level of growth

Guerrila Gardening and the Move to Legitimacy

Richard Reynolds in his book ‘On Guerrilla Gardening’ describes how he took on a neglected plot of land by his block of flats. He successfully grew an assortment of plants and even tomato plants. IT helped improve the local environment and no- one objected. However, after 3 years, contractors returned to garden in the area they had neglected. His plants were unceremoniously cut down.

After talking to local councilors, he was able to negotiate an agreement where he could continue to garden this plot of land. Interestingly his guerrilla gardening had raise a the scandal of how local residents had been paying contractors to supposedly garden in this area. But, for three years they had neglected their attention. But, when they resumed their activities three years late, the guerrila gardener wanted to pursue his gardening. So he came to an arrangement with the local council to maintain his patch of garden. But, interestingly, in the negotiations, they became aware local residents had actually been paying a company to provide gardenening services they had neglected to do.

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