Glasgow Guerrilla Gardening

Owing to the weather this morning’s planned dig will not be going ahead.

We’ll next be meeting on 12th March 2011 at our Townhead site to carry on tidying up the winter debris, planting and litter picking.

If you’d like to help out, bring yourself a pair of gloves and a small trowel or fork if you intend to be doing any planting.

We meet outside the side entrance of St Mungo’s Primary on the lane that connects Stirling Rd and Parson Street. As ever everyone is welcome to come along.

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We meet for the last dig of February at 11:30am on Saturday 26th Feb at the side entrance of St Mungos Primary, Townhead on the lane that connects Stirling Rd to Parson St. As well as admiring all the early bulbs which are just coming into bloom, we’ll be continuing work on the site in preparation for the arrival of spring. If you haven’t been up in a while it’s well worth a look as there are over thirteen thousand spring and summer bulbs of various kinds set to bloom over the coming months.

As ever bring yourself, a small fork or trowel, a pair of gardening gloves and any plants you’d like to add to what will hopefully be a colourful display. If you haven’t been along to the site before or you have any questions, please get in touch via email.

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The next dig will be on February 12th at 11:30am at Townhead. We’ll be concentrating on tidying up the site by removing litter and leaves. We’ll also be doing a spot of planting, if you’d like to plant something, please bring primroses or hellebores. Other than that, bring yourselves a pair of gardening gloves and a small trowel or fork.

Thanks to all who made it along today, your help and support is very much appreciated. Hope to see you all again soon.

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Stirling Rd and Parson Street;

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Hello, I’ve taken the desicion to cancel this due to the prevailing climatic conditions. I’venot been able to get in touch with the others but I think they would agree. We will rearrange for later.

Apologies for the late notice.

regards,

Michael

Our next dig will be the last of 2010 and there is still masses of work to be done. We really need a good turnout to get the site ready for the new year. If you’ve never been before you’d be very welcome to come along and help out. Our Townhead site is opposite the Royal Infirmary, just outside St Mungos Primary on the lane that connects Stirling Rd to Parson Street more details here. We’ll be meeting at the Townhead site at 11:30am on Saturday 4th December and hope to see you all before the New Year.

All you need to bring are gloves, a trowel or bulb planter and bulbs if you have any you’d like to plant.

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We next meet on Saturday 20th November 2010 at 11:30am at our Townhead site (just outside St Mungos primary school) to continue working on the site.

There is still plenty to do before the end of the year and any help at all you can offer will be appreciated. If you’d like to help, just bring yourself, some bulbs, gloves and a trowel or bulb planter.

Hope to see you all next week.

We next meet on Saturday 13th November at our Townhead site to carry on planting bulbs and tidying the site up for the winter. We had a great display of spring bulbs last year and it would be fantastic to repeat the success next year. Apart from looking pretty spring bulbs are a good early source of food for bumblebees, hoverflies and other beneficial insects so the more bulbs we get in the better. We’ll
be meeting at 11:30am if you’d like to come along. Just bring yourself any bulbs you’d like to donate (optional) a trowel/bulb planter and some gardening gloves.

We have also received a level one award from the Beautiful Scotland ‘It’s Your Neighbourhood’ scheme. So a big thanks to everyone who has helped out since we started working on the site. We hope to attain a higher level of award next year and the work we put in between now and August 2011 all contributes to that.

Hope to see you all on Saturday

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A big thanks to all who came along today. We got quite a bit planted and made some inroads into clearing the weeds and fallen leaves. As ever with gardening, there is still tons to do. With that in mind we next meet up on
Saturday 30th October, 11am at our Townhead site.

We’ll be planting bulbs, if you’d like to bring some we’re after native bluebells, snowdrops, daffodils, crocuses, amemone blanda, snakeshead fritallaries and grape hyacinths. We shall also be continuing to weed and clear leaves from the borders and any help at all you can offer with these tasks would be greatly appreciated.

If you haven’t been to the site before it’s just along from The Lee pub on the lane that connects Stirling Rd and Parsons Street- right outside St Mungos Primary School.

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We next meet up at our Townhead site at 11:30am on 23/10/10 to carry on planting spring bulbs and are looking for volunteers to come along and help out.

All you need to bring are some gloves, a trowel or bulb planter and any of the following variety of bulb, daffodils, tulips, grape hyacinths, crocus, anemone ‘white spendour’, snakeshead fritallary, snowdrops, winter aconites or native bluebells. You can also donate cash via paypal or on the day if you’d like to give the bulb fund an additional boost.

As we do not receive any funding we rely on donations of plants and bulbs to fill the site. If you would prefer not assist with this there is plenty of weeding, leaf removal and litter picking to be done and help with these tasks is always greatly appreciated.

We are presently working with an LRA with a view to becoming formally constituted to allow us to apply for funding. This will take a bit of time to come through so in the meantime any help you can offer will be gratefully received. On that note we are also looking for people interested in undertaking some committee/steering group work in order to get things moving. If you can devote at least one evening a month to this and are interested please get in touch to discuss this further.

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Hello All,
We’ll be meeting next on 9th October 2010 at 11:30am at our Townhead site to plant spring bulbs. If you’d like to come along and help out you’re more than welcome.

All you need to bring are some gloves, a trowel or bulb planter and any of the following variety of bulb, daffodils, tulips, grape hyacinths, crocus, anemone ‘white spendour’, snakeshead fritallary, snowdrops, winter aconites or native bluebells. You can also donate cash via paypal or on the day.

As we do not receive any funding we rely on donations of plants and bulbs to fill the site. If you would prefer not assist with this there is still plenty of weeding and litter picking to be done and help with these tasks is always greatly appreciated.

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