" ON GUERILLA GARDENING "

Richard Reynolds has written this revolutionary tome about Guerrilla Gardening. An activity that he took up four years ago in an attempt to fight the miserable public flowerbeds around his neighbourhood.

" An area notorious for its labyrinth of pedestrian underpasses, garish pink shopping centre and traffic volumes to rival Britain's busiest motorways. It is the kind of environment that drives people to crime. My crime was gardening on public land without permission and battling what ever was in the way."

An upbeat and inspirational book which really shows that gardening does not have to be confined to ones own personal garden and that the streets of Britain is where it’s at. Guerrilla gardening shows a true community spirit, rather than reacting in a hopeless way to the depressing litter strewn public flowerbeds, roadsides, verges, roundabouts Guerrillas take positive action and just gets on with the job in hand.

This book gives a detailed history of the Guerrilla gardening movement that started in New York in the 1970’s.  Giving many wonderful examples, stories and pictures that illustrate the lengths that people of all ages and walks of life go to for beauty. It also highlights the endless possibilities for Guerrilla gardening, the more you look

“the more potential locations will become apparent. Train your eye and you will see the landscape in a totally new and exciting way. “

The second half of the book is a manual, giving advice for first timers or for those who need help with recruiting others and general organisation of digs. Not to mention useful tips on the plants themselves and advice for choosing suitable plants for specific locations. Plants that give maximum impact to the context in which it sits whether it's helianthus annus seeds (sunflowers) or Solanum tuberosum (potatoes) !

For more information about guerrilla gardening,

joining the community and for reading

Richard's entertaining up to date blogs go to:

www.guerrillagardening.org

£14.99

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A Wild flower meadow sown illicitly by Brita 1198 and

friends - blooms on the traffic island by a

west London dual carriageway.