Glasgow Guerrilla Gardening

Still lots to do up at Townhead so if you’d like to come along and help out it’d be much appreciated.
If you haven’t been along before all you need to bring are gardening gloves, a small for or trowel and
seeds or plants if you have them.

We meet on the lane that connects Stirling Rd and Parson St outside St Mungos Primary. Any bus that
stops at the Royal Infirmary will get you there if you have a distance to travel.

We’ll be meeting at 11:30am on Saturday 21st May
and 11:30am on Saturday 28th May.

Here are the next few dates in our schedule. If you intend coming along can you email to confirm to give me an idea of numbers. This also alllows me to update you with any changes in the schedule that may arise. Weekday dates will only go ahead if we get sufficient numbers interested. Weekend dates will continue as normal.

Wednesday 20th April 6:30pm
Saturday 23rd April 11:30am
Sunday 24th April 11:30am
Friday 29th April 11:30am

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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Thanks again to James for his kind donation.

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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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Spring is on the way.

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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To help us plan for 2011 it would be great if everyone would take a minute or two to answer a few questions regarding guerrilla gardening. It’s quite painless, completely anonymous and would be very helpful to us.

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