Glasgow Guerrilla Gardening

Hello All,

Two pieces of news, first up we were both surprised and delighted to be placed first in the 2010 Green List

especially as the other nominees were so impressive. Read more about our unexpected triumph here. Oh and if

it was you who nominated us, can you make yourself know so that we can buy you a pint.

The next piece of news concerns the site at Townhead. Unfortunately the weeds are rapidly gaining the upper hand.

To combat this we will be meeting up on Thursday 27th May at 6:30pm for a quick weed and water of the site.

Everyone is welcome, just bring yourselves, gloves and some water. The dig shouldn’t take longer than an hour and the

more who come along the quicker we’ll get the site looking it’s best.

Hope to see you all on Thursday.

Hi again,

Townhead site: 11:30
Saturday, 22nd May

This Saturday, the forecast says Sunshine, so if you are coming along to our Townhead site, be ready for any weather type
Those who know the Townhead site, or just pass it now and again will have seen the lovely display of Tulips that are still  out and about. We think it is lovely as well but we are not sitting back just letting it look pretty. Summer is approaching and there is ongoing work to be done on the site.

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.

If you want to bring seeds Dwarf Sunflowers, Poppies, Forget me nots, Candytuft, Nigella and Nasturtiums are all much needed and more than
welcome.

If you don’t want to bring anything but would like to help there are tons of weeds and litter killing the collective buzz and any help
in shifting them is always welcome.

See you on Saturday, any questions please ask,

Thanks,

Michael

(yes some of this message is a copy n paste, but it says what we need and will be doing)

Hello All,
If you were at our Saturday event you’ll know it was a piece of textbook Guerrilla Gardening. A great turnout, everyone brought plants,
seeds and water, got down to the job at hand and had a great time. So thanks to all who attended. If you weren’t there and want to know
what happened click here.

For those who didn’t attend, fret not. We’ll be at Townhead this Saturday 08/05/10 -a great turnout would be lovely, not to mention much needed.
Poor Mark and I have been holding the fort the last few weeks so it would be great to see new and old faces rally round. Our efforts over
winter have certainly paid of and there is no reason why summer can’t look as good as spring at Townhead provided we all pull together.

There is tons to do. Weeds need to be pulled, plants need dug up and moved, seeds need sown and palnts need planted.
Any help at all you can offer would be great.

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.

If you want to bring seeds Dwarf Sunflowers, Poppies, Forget me nots, Candytuft, Nigella and Nasturtiums are all much needed and more than
welcome.

If you don’t want to bring anything but would like to help there are tons of weeds and litter killing the collective buzz and any help
in shifting them is always welcome.

Hope to see you all on Saturday.

Cheers

J.C

Streetland will join in the National Guerilla Gardening Sunflower Day by planting sunflowers in the Westmoreland Street area of Govanhill including the Govanhill Baths Peace Garden and Westmorland Street Community Garden.

More info at : http://www.streetland.net/

On Wednesday the 5th of May we are holding a design workshop for the gap site on West Princes Street where we have been working to clear the site in preperation of turning it into a communtiy garden. The workshop is at 6pm, Lansdowne Church, 416 Great Western Road, by Kelvinbridge subway station.

We will be discussing and planning the design of the garden so that we can take all of the great ideas that we have heard so far – and more that we haven’t yet – and turn it into a solid plan of action for the site.

We would love to see as many of you there as possible with your ideas, enthusiasm and lovely lovely faces.

Hope to see you there!!!

Grow

Location: Landsdown Church, 426 Great Western Road
Time: 5th May, 6pm – 8pm

Battlefield community garden – raised bed building, path making, planting and lots more. Bring tools if you have them, a flask of something hot to share, perennials if you can manage and lots of smiley energy

Materials will be getting delivered to the garden and so we can then begin the really exciting stuff, building raised beds and making a path.

There will be local people on site with experience.
So if you would like to get involved come down bring a flask, some tasty sandwiches and a smile. If you have tools spades, shovels, rakes bring them along.
Look forward to seeing there.

Location: Ledard Rd – Arundel Drive Community Garden
Time: 10am 08-05-2010

Please see facebook for more inofrmation: http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=116174341744368&ref=mf

National Guerrilla Gardening Sunflower day

Guerrilla Gardening / Seedbombing

Sat 1st May – 6pm onward

Location: Clyde walkway – Clyde St (just south of city centre) View Map

WAR ON TERRA

A subversive act of reclaiming a small part of the city that needs attention with interaction and fun. Working with nature to beautify an abandoned urban area in a short term mission with a long term outlook.

Get involved in some guerrilla gardening, seedbombing or both to make a positive impact in your urban environment!

What to bring (optional): a bedding plant / gloves / a trowel / sunflower seeds

No experience nessesary, just drop by and join in the responsible rebellion!

This is a Radius event in association with Kabloom and Glasgow Guerrilla Gardening

Facebook event page

Radius map

kabloom

A big thanks to everyone who turned out at the weekend to get the rest of the bulbs planted. The site is looking great just now and hopefully everyone’s continued hard work in 2010 will keep the site colourful all through summer and into autumn.

In addition to bulbs we also added Brook Thistle, Anemones, French Marigolds, Garden Pinks and a very generously donated conifer. The conifer wasn’t our only donation, a passer by impressed with the job that we’ve done over the last couple years on the site stopped to hand over a fiver which was used to purchase the Garden Pinks.

We next meet at Townhead on Saturday 24th April at 11:30am. There’s lots to do with plenty weeds and litter needing removed from the site. We will also be starting to plant out seeds -if you’d like to bring some seeds along we’re looking for poppies, nasturtiums, nigella and dwarf sunflowers. If you are bringing seeds you must also bring some water along to water them in with otherwise it’s highly unlikely they’ll germinate. As I do not drive I have to carry everything along to the site and cannot carry enough water for everyone so if everyone can bring along some water hopefully we’ll have enough for our seeds.

If you’d prefer to bring a plant we’re looking for Campanula, ferns (ideally Soft Shield Ferns or Common Polypody), Aquilegias (Columbines), Oriental Poppies, Foxgloves, Mexican Fleabane and Sweet Woodruff. Please note the links above are just for information for anyone unfamiliar with the above plants -I’m not suggesting you use these suppliers -though they are very good, if pricey. You should also be able to find most, if not all of the above plants and seeds from big DIY stores, garden centres, supermarkets, poundshops and the like.

We next meet on 10/04/2010 at 11:30am at Townhead to plant Crocosmia bulbs, continue removing leaves and sow nasturtium seeds.

A big thanks to everyone who came out to garden this morning. Despite the sporadic showers it wasn’t a bad day and we got lots done with a selection of perennials, crocosmia and seeds planted. The bulbs we planted over winter are still looking good. The crocuses are beginning to die down but are being rapidly replaced by Winter Aconites, Snowdrops and Daffodils.

Not much to report in the way of wildlife this week just one large Queen Bee, a Wood Pigeon and a gaggle of ordinary Pigeons.

We next meet on 10/04/2010 at 11:30am at Townhead to plant Crocosmia bulbs, continue removing leaves and sow nasturtium seeds.