Harringay, Haringey - So Good they Spelt it Twice!
Best wishes for the Group
Alison - hope your group takes off. I was wondering if it could also be a place for plant swaps. I offered a lovely lithrum on the site last year - originally bought from the RHS Show - which had got so big I had to split it. There were no takers. I also had a bunch of cotoneaster horizontalis seedlings which I ended up planting along the side of a near neighbour's garden (with his permision) to create some more street-green.
I've always been tempted by a greening the streets campaign - like more hedges/plants in front gardens - but I fear I'd be on a loser there.
I've always been tempted by a greening the streets campaign - like more hedges/plants in front gardens - but I fear I'd be on a loser there.
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Permalink Reply by Alison P on
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Thanks Hugh. I did have plant swaps/freebies in mind.
I've always got a few plants around that I'd love to give away - I'm not so great at weeding, especially when the weed is from a plant I'm fond of.
So anyone out there with some spare plants, why not see if there are any takers here. Anyone want a euphorbia for instance? -
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Permalink Reply by Helen1 on
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Not necessarily! A few years ago Hewitt Road (I think it was Hewitt Road?) residents put their heads together and managed to get a lot of new trees planted along the road. So there may be more interest than you think...
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Permalink Reply by Liz on
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South Harringay school gardening club have plans to 'green' the passage near their school. Perhaps there might be more interest in guerilla gardening than you think!
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Permalink Reply by Hugh on
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Did you see the video on this site about seed bombs?
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Permalink Reply by matt on
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Council bods keep chainsawing our trees down in Falkland Rd. That's guerilla warfare. Sometimes they bother to plant another but then someone drives over it!
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Permalink Reply by Birdy_Too on
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It's not just the council, when the council put new trees up and down the Ladder a few years back some anti-socialites would snap them leaving small stumps.
I also left potted plants at the front of our house, they were stolen within 48 hours. Need to put bigger ones out there which would be difficult to nick. -
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Permalink Reply by Keir on
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Anyone with an interest in 'greening the streets' should check out www.guerillagardening.org - go to the community page and look at the London board. There's a planter near Manor House tube station that I'm scoping out at the moment for when I've a bit more free time. Anyone else know of any unused ground that could do with a make-over?
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Thanks Keir, that's a great site. I was wondering whether it would be worth your starting a forum post called Guerilla Gardening. It might attract more attention than a message on a "Best Wishes....." post. (NB If you start a post in a group, because of a to-be-resolved oddity in Ning's set up, new group posts don't show up on the latest activity panel, but replies do. The solution is to add a short PS as a reply to any new group post)
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