Though the term “Guerilla Gardening” might mislead you to warfare and all, it’s nowhere related to Che Guevara’s legacy. No doubt it involves the green wagon of various insomniac armed planters seeking to exploit the dead of night to carry out their secret responsibility.
Just keep tossing and turning through a restless night and you might encounter their vandalizing spree of eco-plantings. Leaving indelible imprints of their city-renewals behind for others, they keep on paying tribute to Johnny Appleseed.
Whether public alleys or spaces or vacant lots, these gardeners won’t ever ask anyone for permission to transform them. Anyhow, such endeavors are in complete unison with nature and these beautify environs to an unassailable degree. So, none should have a problem with that. Torontoists don’t have any…
The green ritual dates back to 1973 when Liz Christy and her Green Guerrilla group in the Bowery Houston area of New York transformed a derelict private lot into a garden. Since then, various groups and individuals have been perpetuating the inheritance.
We’ve tried to capture some of their green works of art. Accordingly, we present the pictorial representation of some great Guerrilla Gardening exploits:
Brighton Guerilla Gardening:
West End Planting in Toronto:
Dundas West in Toronto:
Edina Tokodi’s art in Brooklyn, NY:
Sherbourne and Carlton FlyerPlanter Boxes
Kensington Market green graffiti:
Guerrilla Gardening Cans & Plants:
Anne Gross and Guerrilla Gardening:
London Sidewalk:
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