Glasgow Guerrilla Gardening

A big thanks to all those who have been coming along and an even bigger thanks to those who have donated or contributed to the 10000 bulb campaign. As of Saturday we have planted around 4000 of our 10000 target.

some photos from Saturday 17th October 2009:

Location:   http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=en&geocode=&q=parson+street+Glasgow&sll=53.800651,-4.064941&sspn=18.388688,30.717773&ie=UTF8&ll=55.864915,-4.237901&spn=0.00425,0.007499&t=h&z=17

Just south of the A on this map, on the path that links parson Street to Stirling Road.

What to bring???

Date: Saturday 3rd October
Time:   11:30 am

Location:   http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=en&geocode=&q=parson+street+Glasgow&sll=53.800651,-4.064941&sspn=18.388688,30.717773&ie=UTF8&ll=55.864915,-4.237901&spn=0.00425,0.007499&t=h&z=17

Just south of the A on this map, on the path that links parson Street to Stirling Road.

What to bring???

Continuing our 10,000 Bulb project.

Time:   11:30 am

Location:   http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=en&geocode=&q=parson+street+Glasgow&sll=53.800651,-4.064941&sspn=18.388688,30.717773&ie=UTF8&ll=55.864915,-4.237901&spn=0.00425,0.007499&t=h&z=17

Just south of the A on this map, on the path that links parson Street to Stirling Road.

Due to various donations, fund-raising and help from various members of the Gardening group.

We are now on the lookout for the following:

600 Mixed Daffodils

930 Mixed Tulips

950 Snakeshead Fritillaries

800 Mixed Crocuses

1000 English Bluebells (native only please)

1000 Native Wood Anenone OR 1000 Anemone White Splendour

Just 5280 bulbs to go!

This is an amazing result as most of the fund-raising has been done by our core members. If you can help out with this second half of fund raising or even the bulb planting over the coming months, please get in touch.

Thanks

You may have noticed that we are raising funds for a mass bulb planting project at Townhead.

29th – 11:30
30th – 1 pm
31st –  7 pm

Our aim is 10,000 bulbs: http://www.glasgowguerillagardening.org.uk/10000/

Guerrilla gardeners are reclaiming Glasgow’s neglected spaces … one plant at a time

With summer slipping by rapidly- yes it really is July not a mass calender based prank- our thoughts have turned towards the coming year. So now that you’re all depressed allow us to cheer you up by introducing the Ten Thousand Bulb challenge.

Those of you who’ve visited our site at Townhead will be aware it’s a fair old size so in order to get it looking really good for next spring we need bulbs and lots of them. We are aiming to attract sufficient donations in either cash or bulbs to let us blanket our Townhead and Wilson Street sites in thousands of blooms.

Between now and December 31st 2009 we hope to obtain and plant a whopping ten thousand bulbs and will be frenziedly panhandling for the next few months.  If you’d like to help out you can either use the paypal button on this page to make a donation, bring a bag of bulbs along to a dig or contact us to arrange to send bulbs to one of the troops. A no cost donation can also be made simply by visiting our Squidoo page as we earn royalties from traffic, sign ups and purchases made from the page. If you have a blog we’d be delighted if you would spare the time to write a short post about the challenge to encourage as many folk as possible to get involved.

If you have a business or website you’d like to promote we’ll be happy to write a short post highlighting your donation and add a link to our sidebar in return. We do get the occasional bit of press interest and this site attracts a good amount of traffic so it’s an excellent way to advertise cheaply whilst helping us out. We are also quite happy for you to publicise your donation and may be open to participating in any susequent publicity as long as we’re not asked to tell fibs, dance, dress up or sing.

Our bulb wishlist is below and we’ll keep you updated over the next few months as to how we’re getting on meeting our target and of course let you see the results once the bulbs bloom next year.

1000 Mixed Daffodils

1000 Mixed Tulips

1000 Snakeshead Fritillaries

1000 Snowdrops

1000 Mixed Crocuses

1000 Bluebells (native only please)

1000 Grape Hyacinths

1000 Winter Aconites

1000 Mixed Alluims

1000 Wood Anemome

We’ve selected the above for their ability to naturalise, visual impact and beneficial affect to wildlife apart from tulips who’re there to look nice and little else.  Successfully naturalised daffodil fields have been known to last for up to fifty years which means if we meet our target our  sites  will be in bloom for years to come.

We’ll be planting our first donated bulbs up at Townhead on 29th August at 12:30pm if anyone fancies joining us with a bag of bulbs from the above list.