#guerrillagardening — Public Fediverse posts

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#ipswich #suffolk #uk #guerrillagardening #conversation #community #meanwhilelease

https://heroic-popupgarden402c15997b.wordpress.com/2026/09/30/not-much-gardening-today/

Heartbroken at what has been done. #ipswich #suffolk #biodiversity #wildlife #guerrillagardening

https://heroic-popupgarden402c15997b.wordpress.com/2026/09/17/this-is-what-vandalism-looks-like/

Gathered seeds for a dasterdly plan.
Up the road from us is a roadside memorial for some kid who killed himself drunk driving. Whoever put up this memorial recently brought out landscapers to make it over. Looks ok, but it's all landscape plants that are not doing well with neglect. My plan is, once the rains come, to scatter these native California poppy, aster & columbine seeds. All have lovely flowers and can actually handle the dry season.
#NativePlants
#Gardening
#GuerrillaGardening

So I went rogue.

With an electric chain saw.

I spent Saturday & Sunday attacking two evergreens, and to a lesser extent a few hardwoods at the back of the property.

This is an area behind a 24 unit apartment building that I kinda liked a lot but which maintenance cared nothing for, used as a place to pile branches and stuff and had unnecessarily weed-whacked in late spring.

I wound up taking most of the branches off of the two evergreens to let light in and give them nice shape and definition (they used to drape almost to the ground and the trunks were probably 20° less vertical). Since I didn't want evergreen stuff in the compost, I wound up filling the bottom third of the dumpster with compressed branches.

Treated the area under the evergreens with gypsum and put down a 1/2" layer of good aged compost, spreading thinner compost through the back.

Moved the compost pile into/onto a couple grow bins that had been abandoned back there years ago after cleaning them out.

Seeded the whole area with Outsider Pride Mini Clover - a low growing clover with white flowers.

Spending the days since watering and just sitting out back listening to #npr and watching stuff sprout.

Finally yesterday, one of the maintenance guys showed up. Said he'll let everyone know not to dump branches and stuff, and to leave the back alone and not worry about it -- to not mess with the back area unless necessary.

And he's buying me more clover seed.

I now have free reign to garden and landscape the back of the property. Maintenance Mike says it was never nice before, never had been landscaped intentionally... the building was built in 1976.

I was seriously expecting stern angry letters from the property management company for what I'd done.

But it went over beautifully and I now have a little park and lawn area to obsess over and permission to do whatever planting and landscaping I want.

#grarden #landscaping #trees #guerrillagardening #madisonwi #nomow

#guerrillagardening #guerrillagardeners #vegetables #flowers

RE: https://dice.camp/@Da_Gut/116873836812571724

So I finished listening to this one today, and it talks about dragonflies and damselflies in rainwater runoff catch basins. You know those pits that you see where runoff is caught from parking lots. If those have a nice variety of aquatic plants growing in them, then they are important dragonfly habitat, even if the water quality is low. There might be seed bomb potential there.
#Nature #SolarPunkSunday #GuerrillaGardening #DragonFlies #UrbanNature

📺 FREE Water was ILLEGAL…He Changed That…

🗒 "We tour the neighborhood of Dunbar Springs, where Brad has been transforming the hot asphalt streets into a native food oasis over the last 30 years."
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lQ-jdUGCxcc&t=350

#Tucson #arizona #desert #permaculture #gardening #solarpunk #GuerrillaGardening

Thank you to those people who helped distribute the sand from a heap into paths.
#mutualaid #anarchist #ipswich #suffolk #uk #guerrillagardening #wildcarrot

https://heroic-popupgarden402c15997b.wordpress.com/2026/07/01/sand-elves/

Too hot to do much except take a couple of photos and stand around talking about the #climatecrisis
#ipswich #suffolk #meanwhilegarden #popupgarden #guerrillagardening

https://heroic-popupgarden402c15997b.wordpress.com/2026/06/25/brutal-heat/