Go Guerilla Gardening And Plant Sunflowers — londonist.com

Contribute a little future colour to your neighbourhood by planting sunflower seeds on International Sunflower Guerilla Gardening Day, on 1 May. Guerilla Gardening is when plants are cultivated on land the gardener doesn’t own, like a roundabout or abandoned site. Some guerilla gardeners have ripped up pavements to reclaim the space, but that’s not something we’d advocate (apart from the legal issues, when TfL or the council inevitably replaces the paving slabs, what will happen to your sunflowers?). Probably the most famous guerilla gardening location in London is around Elephant and Castle, where Richard Reynolds and volunteers have created several gardens — including a huge ‘lavender field‘ in a traffic island on Westminster Bridge Road.

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