Glasgow Guerrilla Gardening

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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Hello All,

We shall be at our Townhead site this Saturday 11:30 am; for a general tidy up and weed. There is loads to do so any help you can offer will be appreciated. Depending on numbers we may also be planting some more spring bulbs. If you’d like to contribute some bulbs we are looking for native bluebells, winter aconites, snakeshead fritillaries, anemone blanda white splendour, wood anemone, daffodils, tulips, ramsons, crocuses, snowdrops and grape hyacinths. You can also donate cash on the day or via paypal – link on the side of the page.

Map Link

Cheers,

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Hello All,

The middle of summer and some of us have been lucky to be off on holiday or off at a festival. Because of this we have been a bit quiet over the last few weeks. We are back though!

If any of you are free this Sunday (1st August) @ 11:30 that would be fantastic.

Map link: http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=en&geocode=&q=parson+street+glasgow&sll=37.0625,-95.677068&sspn=51.621706,79.804688&ie=UTF8&hq=&hnear=Parson+St,+Glasgow,+Lanarkshire+G4,+United+Kingdom&ll=55.864764,-4.237633&spn=0.002255,0.004871&t=h&z=18

What to bring along, best go here to see what to bring: ‘What to Bring’.

I’d defiantly suggest bring gardening gloves, a bin bag (for the rubbish) and maybe a bottle of water as the site is a bit dry despite the best intentions of the Glasgow summer.

I hope to see some of you along on Sunday morning.

Thanks,

Michael

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Hi All,

Townhead site: 11:00 – Sunday 11th July

Yes, Sunday, not Saturday!

Map link: http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=en&geocode=&q=parson+street+glasgow&sll=37.0625,-95.677068&sspn=51.621706,79.804688&ie=UTF8&hq=&hnear=Parson+St,+Glasgow,+Lanarkshire+G4,+United+Kingdom&ll=55.864764,-4.237633&spn=0.002255,0.004871&t=h&z=18

What to bring along, best go here to see what to bring: ‘What to Bring’. I’ve noticed in my local B+Q/Lidl/ALDI that they may not have all these plants but please bring along what you can.

I’d defiantly suggest bring gardening gloves, a bin bag (for any rubbish) and maybe a bottle of water as the site is a bit dry despite the rain of the last few days.

I hope to see some of you along on Sunday morning.

Thanks,

Michael

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Hi All,

Townhead site: 6:30 pm - Thursday 24th June

Map link: http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=en&geocode=&q=parson+street+glasgow&sll=37.0625,-95.677068&sspn=51.621706,79.804688&ie=UTF8&hq=&hnear=Parson+St,+Glasgow,+Lanarkshire+G4,+United+Kingdom&ll=55.864764,-4.237633&spn=0.002255,0.004871&t=h&z=18

The majority of the bulbs that were in bloom a few weeks ago have now finished flowering and the Townhead site needs a wee bit of a clear up and some new plants planted in. There will be some weeding needing done as well. If you want to bring a plant along we’re after Columbines, Oriental Poppies, Hostas, Foxgloves, Hollyhocks, Mexican Fleabane, Sweet Woodruff, Ferns, Solomons Seal, Scabious or Campanula or see ‘What to Bring’ here. I’ve noticed in my local B+Q that they may not have all these plants but please bring along what you can.

I’d defiantly suggest bring gardening gloves, a bin bag (for any rubbish) and maybe a bottle of water as the site is a bit dry (this will now mean that between then and now it will rain, but please bring along some water).

I hope to see some of you along in Thursday evening,

Thanks,

Michael

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Just a reminder that we’re meeting up at our Townhead site on Saturday 5th June at 11:30am.
We’ll be continuing to weed, plant seeds and water the plants during this hot, dry spell.
 
If you’d like to come along bring gloves, water (even a small 500ml bottle filled with tap/rainwater is a great help) and seeds (nasturtiums, forget me nots, stock, sunflowers, poppies, foxgloves etc).
 
Hope to see you all on Saturday
 
Cheers
 
Jennifer

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