Mainstream Guerrilla Gardening

Mainstream Guerrilla Gardening

The idea of Guerrilla gardening is a wonderful and very positive form of direct action. Improving the dreary world the powers that be expect us to live in, by planting things, that will flourish in grey and unloved parts of (mostly) urban areas.

This is for the most part a very good activity and can bring communities together in a wholly creative and uniting way.

Whilst I fully support such activities; I am about conserving and propagating native species and mostly in the country side. Mostly I work alone, but I do get quite a bit of help, even if that just means that people save me the more unusual weeds from their gardens, so I can go and plant them in some hedge somewhere.

I believe that we have to all work together to make this planet into the Utopian paradise it was meant to be. I mean the choice is;

1. Don't try to be an idealist


2. Always aim for perfection

I know which one I'd choose.

How about you?

Year 10

7 Months without a camera

During the winter and shortly before daffodil season; my friend's puppy ate my camera-phone; and being as poor as a church mouse; it has taken me until now to get another. But I have a camera now and I'm back.

Despite my telecommunications problem; I have had an excellent tree planting season, followed by the best wild daffodil and other wild flower planting season ever. Many new species have been introduced and many new wild flowers tried here for the first time.

The Birch tree with me in the picture to the left is just one of countless examples of my astonishing success at getting trees to grow well above 1'000 feet (400m) above sea level, although some struggle to bear fruit, particularly Elder, Cherry and Apple.

So look forward to many more blogs like this one and please keep any puppies away from my brand new camera-phone.