I'm a keen fan of Guerrilla Gardening and the effort these volunteer gardeners put into re-scaping their urban environments. So, when I stumbled upon this blog, Guerrila Gardening.org I was excited to see that someone was now doing this more than an ad hoc feel-good affair.

These guys are true guerrilla's: working under the cover of darkness, being supplied by supporters and groupies and spending weekends trying to create fund raising ideas to keep the cause moving.

Sporting secret identities as agents would in the cult TV series "Get Smart" these revolutionaries hail from the UK. This doesn't stop them from Guerrilla-ttacking [that's my word - I made it up but you can use it] other places in the world. Steve (007) - [I'm sure I've seen that number being used before somewhere] and Mike (054) even performed a little makeover on a recent trip to Libya.

So, if you haven't checked out this green terrorists before now head on over and support their cause...

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I just read a great post over at Whimspiration titled Guerilla Gardening - 12 Steps to Addiction.

It gives some great tips to help beginner guerilla's transform their community wastelands. I love the idea of Guerilla Gardening as it empowers people to do something other than just rant and rave to local authorities. And in most cases it doesn't take an enormous effort to beautify a run-down area.

Great post Whimspiration!

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O
ver the past couple of months, I've been reading posts on the newly coined phrase "Guerrila Gardening." Guerilla gardening is the act of transforming a public piece of land that is currenlty an eye-sore into something that is beautiful and enjoyable to view. I'm not exactly sure who who started the term, and if someone can advise me then I shall annotate accordingly, but it inspired me to not only look for areas where I could perform such an action but also to acknowledge those who have already been doing it.

This park is now called the Rod Smith Park, not in recognition of some famous guy but named in order to acknowledge the efforts of this park's next door neighbour. I don't know all the details but I do know that this land was once a desolate public open space attached to a current shire facility. Rod Smith, whose house adjoins this land, set about cleaning it up and created a beautiful park which is now enjoyed by many people and has also been the stage for several garden weddings.

The Busselton Shire even acknowledge Rod's contribution by erecting this sign;

which reads;

Busselton Shire Council acknowledge that this park is maintained mainly by the local residents for the enjoyment of the public.

The land backs onto some wetlands in a subdivision that doesn't get much exposure and would never have been ear-marked for public funding. Yet this small community wanted more than a wasteland on their doorstep and rather than petition and fight the local government, which would have fallen on deaf ears, they used their time and resources to produce something more incredible.

To give you an idea what the land once looked like I have included this picture of what lies behind the park and to the left. Maybe this will become someone's project in the future.

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