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Guerilla Gardening Graffiti is the Coolest Idea

Posted by TonyB • 6/11/08 • Subscribe to this Discussion [RSS] • Report This Topic
Topics: activism, activist, community, gardening graffiti, green

Have you heard about Guerilla Gardening?

It is where you find a neglected, orphaned land, bare patch of land and illegally plant trees, shrubs, flowers and grass.

Basically you cultivate someone else's land without their permission. How cool is that?

Here's their site: www.guerrillagardening.org/
& a great New York Times article about it www.nytimes.com/2008/06/08/magazine/08guerrilla-t.html?_r=1&partner=rssnyt&...

Next week the BlogCatalog team will go into action and add gardening graffiti to some patches of land in San Antonio. We will take before and after pics and post them here.

If you also go into action and become a graffitiest ... post your before & after photos here as well as on the Guerrilla Gardening website.

User Comments

6/11/08

DrowseyMonkey

Never heard of that before, that's very cool Can't wait to see the photos!

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1. 6/11/08
  
  TonyB
  
  Me too Angie will probably buy enough plants to fill a football field.
6/11/08

TonyB

Social Search is really an amazing tool. I did a search on Guerrilla Gardening and a number of BC members have posted about it

www.blogcatalog.com/dashboard.search.php?q=guerrilla+gardening

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6/11/08

Manictastic

That's just too British.

Oh, do you do Belgian gardens too? Coz my backyard could use some colour flowers

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1. 6/11/08
  
  TonyB
  
  I love it!
2. 6/11/08
  
  Manictastic
  
  So is that a yes or no on Belgian housecalls?
3. 6/11/08
  
  TonyB
  
  Im in Texas. How about some chocolate house calls? If you're offering them, Ill do anything
4. 6/11/08
  
  Manictastic
  
  I'll even add some cool Belgian ales to it
5. 6/11/08
  
  TonyB
  
  Place and time? I'm there. Forget the grass!
6/11/08

aningeniousname

I'm a Landscape gardener by trade and I think it's an awful idea!

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1. 6/11/08
  
  TonyB
  
  that's cause you charge for your work.
6/11/08

jafabrit

yes, and I love the idea I am more into knit graffiti, but if my back was up to it I would do the garden graf too.

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6/11/08

Shiley

That's neat.

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6/11/08

legbamel

This sounds like a fantastic idea. I look forward to reading about (and seeing) your experiences. I may have to consdier a few spots around town. I imagine that sneaking in a tree in the dead of night poses a few difficulties, however. [ponders] How about drive-by seeding?

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6/11/08

calais50

Wonderful idea. I would like to do something like that, but I am a plant murderer. Any plant that has darkened my door has met its end within a few days.

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  TonyB
  
  @calais, me too!
11/11/08

graffiti

Yeah my gf' blog has an article about this in the UK check it out at greencraft.co.uk/blog/guerilla-gardening-reclaiming-the-city/

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11/11/08

Arcticulates

There have been some people here in Alaska who shall remain nameless, that drive by areas of bleak looking land and throw wild flower seeds all over it, and it in a few weeks time the whole place would be a wild garden of colorful flowers. Drive by seeders... It is awesome!

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11/11/08

timethief

Yes! We have a 30 year history of guerilla gardening where I live. In the countryside, we are cautious to plant only native varieties of plants on vacant undeveloped land. We never ever introduce transplanted domestic plants from other regions like daffodils, which are poisonous to the wildlife that live in the area. Instead we reintroduce the native plants that many idiots in past generations culled because they considered them to be weeds.

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