Our Big Guerrilla Gardening Challenge
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*Above picture is of our Townhead site*
Whats on this Page.....
- Who Are We?
- Guerrilla Gardening Reads
- What is the Ten Thousand Bulb Challenge?
- Bag Yourself Some Bulbs
- What Kind of Bulbs do We Need?
- Watch us on TV
- Ten Things You Can Do To Show Your Support
- Links
- How Long Do We Have To Meet Our Target?
- What Your Cash Donations Can Buy
- Get The Right Tools
- Learn More About Guerrilla Gardening
- Our Latest News
- Guerrilla Gardening Blogs
- Guerrilla Gardening Videos
- Guerrilla Gardening Tweets
- Enjoy A Challenge?
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- Your Thoughts on The Ten Thousand Bulb Challenge
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Who Are We?
We are a small troop of guerrilla gardeners based in Glasgow, Scotland. We've been working on neglected patches of land around central Glasgow since August of last year. All our work is funded out of our own pockets and occasional donations from supportive members of the public.In an effort to attract more help and get our city looking fabulous we've launched the Ten Thousand Bulb Challenge.
* Picture on the right is of our Wilson Street site. All bulbs pictured were planted by us*
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*Every purchase made via this page will mean a donation to the bulb challenge at no extra cost to you.*
What is the Ten Thousand Bulb Challenge?
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 (pictured) 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 aim to obtain and plant a whopping ten thousand bulbs and will be frenziedly panhandling for the next few months to supplement our own contributions. If you'd like to help out you can either use the paypal button on our blog 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.
If you have a business or website you'd like to promote we'll be happy to write a short post highlighting your donation on our blog and add a link to our sidebar in return. We do get the occasional bit of press interest and our blog 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.
In the event we exceed our target any excess will be put towards our gardening activities. We've a lot of land to cover and the 10,000 bulb project is only the tip of the iceberg.
Bag Yourself Some Bulbs
eBay can be really great source of bargains for gardeners. I've bought plants, bulbs and seeds at a fraction of the price charged by the big garden centres. The vast majority of sellers on eBay are great but before you buy make sure you check their history and feel free to ask any questions you might have - a reputable seller won't mind this at all and as many of them are keen gardeners you might even pick up a tip or two.
*Any purchase made via this site will mean a donation to the Ten Thousand Bulb Challenge at no additional cost to you.*
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What Kind of Bulbs do We Need?
Daffodils-TARGET EXCEEDEDTulips- TAGET MET
Snakeshead Fritillaries TARGET MET
Snowdrops TARGET MET
Mixed Crocuses TARGET EXCEEDED
500 English Bluebells (native only please)
Grape Hyacinths -TARGET MET
Winter Aconites- TARGET MET
Alluims -TARGET EXCEEDED
900 Native Wood Anenone
We've selected the above for their ability to naturalise, visual impact and beneficial effect on 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 in 2059.
We'll be planting our first donated bulbs up at Townhead on 29th August at 11:30am if anyone fancies joining us with a bag or two of bulbs from the above list.
*Picture of our Wilson Street site*
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Helping is as easy as falling off a log. Take any one of the steps outlined below and you've made a valuable and gratefully received contribution. Both our Townhead and Wilson Street sites ooze potential, a little bit of effort and it'll be realised. If everyone who lands on this page does just one of the things listed below, there's every chance we'll meet our target.
Ten Things You Can Do To Show Your Support
1. Bookmark this page and return often for updates. We earn a small royalty for visits to this site. If you're reading this you're already helping.2. Buy via this site. Everytime you enter the eBay or Amazon sites via our page and make a purchase we will get a percentage at no extra cost to you.
3. Join Squidoo via this page and we'll earn a bonus royalty.
4. Send us your bulbs. Contact clairwil123AThotmailDOTcom for details of where to post your donated bulbs.
5. Link to us from your lens, blog or website.
6. Donate cash via paypal to the above email address.
7. Tweet this page.
8. Tell everyone you know about us and encourage them to help out by undertaking at least one action from this list.
9. Come along to our big bulb planting events in August 2009 (details to be announced nearer the time)
10. If you like this page, give it a good rating to boost it's Squidoo page rank and help us attract more traffic.
*Above picture is of our site on Wilson Street, Glasgow, once again it's all our own plants (except the butterfly bush)*
Links
- The Glasgow Guerrilla Gardeners
- Find out more about what we're up to and how you can help.
- Guerrilla Gardening
- Join the international guerrilla gardening community.
- Scotland on Sunday
- Article on us and other guerrilla gardeners operating in Scotland.
- Sunday Mail Article
- Newspaper article on our gardening activities around Glasgow.
- The Herald
- Brief mention of our bulb project in the arts column.
- Britblog Round Up
- Our project makes the Britblog Round Up.
- Scottish Round Up
- The Ten Thousand Bulb Challenge makes the Scottish Round Up.
- Evening Times
- Evening Times article on The Ten Thousand Bulb Challenge and our activities.
- The Sunday Herald
- Herald article about our activitities.
- Scotsman
- Scotsman article on our activities.
(The End of The Ten Thousand Bulb Challenge is December 31, 2009)
What Your Cash Donations Can Buy
10p buys a single bulb£1 buys ten bulbs
£10 buys one hundred bulbs
£100 buys one thousand bulbs
£955 buys the full ten thousand
Get The Right Tools
Whilst it is advisable to go for the best quality tools you can afford there is no need to spend a fortune. eBay is a great source of good quality new and second tools often at a fraction of the price available in the shops. For guerrilla gardening all you need to get started is a pair of gardening gloves and a trowel -you're likely to find you'll want to add to this as time goes by but I find these are what I use most often.
*Any purchase made via this site will earn us a small royalty to help towards our appeal at no extra cost to you.*
Fetching new data from eBay now... please stand byLearn More About Guerrilla Gardening
Guerrilla gardening is political gardening, a form of direct action, primarily practiced by environmentalists. It is related to land rights, land reform, and permaculture. Activists take over ("squat") an abandoned piece of land which they do not own to grow crops or plants. Guerrilla gardeners believe in re-considering land ownership in order to reclaim land from perceived neglect or misuse and assign a new purpose to it.
Some guerrilla gardeners carry out their actions at night, in relative secrecy, to sow and tend a new vegetable patch or flower garden. Others work more openly, seeking to engage with members of the local community, as illustrated in the examples that follow. It has grown into a form of proactive activism or pro-activism.
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Your Thoughts on The Ten Thousand Bulb Challenge
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- Peterdaniel Peterdaniel Jan 6, 2010 @ 9:10 pm
- I am really confused about using the proper fertilizers for gurrila Gardening and then i got this very good tip regarding Fertilizer - like You may want to add some fertilizer when planting your garden; be sure not to use any chemicals you would not want to get in the local water system in the http://tictacdo.com/ttd/Start-Guerilla-Gardening and some more very fruitful tips,really worthy
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- susannaduffy susannaduffy Dec 31, 2009 @ 7:53 pm
- What a wonderful challenge! Best of luck with your Ten Thousand Bulbs, Glasgow will be blooming indeed. Blessed in an Angel's Last Tango (squidoo.com/angel-last-tango)
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- mysticmama mysticmama Jul 26, 2009 @ 1:54 pm
- Ver cool & Good Luck!
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- Clairwil Clairwil Jul 24, 2009 @ 11:57 am
- Thanks again everyone. Assuming we meet our target I should have some impressive snaps to add to this page come the spring
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- tdove tdove Jul 23, 2009 @ 2:45 pm
- What a great idea. Keep it going! Thanks for checking out my foot tattoo lens!
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