tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15770458491569152272024-03-19T08:00:13.076+00:00La Guérillèreguerrilla gardening in new cross and camberwellLakehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08668365228927564661noreply@blogger.comBlogger63125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1577045849156915227.post-80472265890375819572017-08-08T15:04:00.003+01:002017-12-27T12:02:40.701+00:00Southwark 1 Lewisham 0<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Gardened today with visiting celebrity Tofiq Pasha and Naheed his partner - and given a. the uncertain status of plants in the NX pits and b. that I haven't been back to Dog Kennel Hill for over a year, I decided on the latter as our locale. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">We planted at least 5 Verbena Bonariensis, 2 geum, 1 primrose, 1 strawberry, 1 hardy geranium, 1 Agave (and its offshoots) and 1 Alchemilla in a section almost as if it was prepared for us - albeit with some rock hard ground (suppliers: my garden and my parents' garden). It was really interesting to hear Pasha's stories about other compost conditions and his concern at my weeding and clearing! We also scattered a pack of bee-friendly wild flower seeds (thank you Liz!). After warning these troops for the day that it was likely to be a mess, actually the whole strip was really not bad! The star plants are currently: Iris, Rosemary, Acanthus, Artichoke [thank you Giovanni], Euphorbia, Fennel, Leucanthemum, Echinops, Vinca - and eventually after some strategic weeding around Hollyhock seedlings I found 3 surviving Red Hot Pokers. I'm not sure what the weeds are [tall dandeliony things, tall probably pink flowering things]: they are ok - good for pollinators, not matting and easy to pull out where they are swamping more desirable plants. But the bad ones pretty much were not there [infernal grass, huge thistles, sticky sweethearts]! </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Essentially for the first time in ages - at least a year, more than that probably, someone has come and 'tidied up'. This person or persons has temporarily cleared the pits of litter - not much there since I've done them twice in the last 2 weeks. All well and fine (for about a week). They have also sheared back the larger shrubs. Not hugely sympathetic, but ok. What is really tragic and upsetting is that they have pulled up a lot of plants, clearly thinking that they were 'weeds'. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">The missing plants include, at least: 2 x strawberries, 2 x Verbena Bonariensis, all the teasels, 1 Acanthus, 1 geum, 1 large hardy geranium, 1 x fennel, Crocosmia, self-seeded wild carrots, leucanthemum daisies. These are all bee-friendly (Obviously).</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">They have left large bare spaces around the 'weeded' remaining plants. This means that the soil will dry out much more quickly, and more importantly that the folk who drop litter here will just fill it all up with rubbish (yes, bitter voice of experience here I know). With a range of flowering plants there is a chance that people might just think 'oh, that's looks nice'. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">The big shrubs in the central beds have been wildly cut back. Ok. And the Bay and Fig are still there. But now they have no protection and are vulnerable to the plant vandalism and general fighting/rolling around on the plants that can happen in this neck of the woods. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Is it worth it, Lewisham, or were you planning on actually planting something nectar and pollen-rich? Frankly I'd like to see you donate some decent plants, as well as better instruct your team. </span><br />
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<br />Lakehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08668365228927564661noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1577045849156915227.post-86881846356865903842017-07-28T12:28:00.002+01:002017-07-28T16:09:50.943+01:00Cross Talk<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace; font-size: large;">Went back to the pits today and planted a blooming Rudbeckia (from R who also supplied the other boisterous patches of it) another Verbena and another teasel, all in the pit near Mughead coffee. Also, of course, did a massive tidy up - this time all the way around every pit. Reyna is becoming Nene and seems to have slightly expanded the frontage. So maybe they care? Neither on twitter yet.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace; font-size: large;">Anyway the best part was a long conversation with a local woman who told me that she and local school children planted all the roadside Plane Trees from Queen's Road to Deptford in 1964 to combat smog! We also had a chat about the infernal littering. She said that in her day the street cleaner would say 'I know your mother' to offenders and it would be an effective deterrent, but these days it would be insulting at best.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace; font-size: large;">Ok, no shots were fired in this guerrilla exercise. However my partner in grime, W, did say 'If I tackle you suddenly its because I've just seen something you haven't.' There was a hairy moment when some young teenage boys were running around the pits - and therefore us - attacking each other with a block of wood and a belt. Luckily an adult man efficiently intervened and we managed to continue. Not without interruption. A couple of women stood strangely close to me as I was weeding out the stinging nettles and asked me for groundsel for their rabbit. I pulled some up and turned back to the pit. Eventually they stopped staring and went on their way.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace; font-size: large;">We added some mixed pots of crocosmia, iris foetidissima, california poppies and probably some random ok weeds. I also dug up the now quite large but suffering hardy geranium from underneath the mighty Acanthus and transplanted it in bits to the other side of the pit. Technically a tough plant, easy to transplant and propagate but NX is a random environment... Luckily it has been raining so they <i>should</i> make it...</span><br />
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<br />Lakehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08668365228927564661noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1577045849156915227.post-56271576785111848602016-07-04T20:43:00.000+01:002016-07-05T22:23:01.157+01:00Cross Country<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace; font-size: large;">Finally I've been back to the pits of New Cross - aided and abetted by Rosie, guerrilla gardener of the highest order. Actually we started at 'her' patch - the triangle of scrub land near the Sainsburys carpark now covered in wild flowers, chicory, lavender and hardy geraniums (pics to follow). I had pooh-poohed that patch as a lost cause of desolation a couple of years ago, but she has persisted, combatting Sainsburys' habit of mowing over the 'weeds' and got them to stop that nonsense. Apparently they even conceded to plant a tree in the middle of it, which is ok. Anyway she cleared away some of the poppies that had gone over and I brought down some more iris foetidissima and a pink hardy geranium. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">Above: the biggest pit. The Acanthus has come into its own and is now swamping a hardy geranium which really should be moved. As a temporary measure I cut back a few leaves on the Acanthus. The Jack Daniels was underneath it, along with a load of other trash. Several blokes eyed that bottle and didnt dare pick it up. Yet. On the other side I just pulled out a few dead sunflowers and transplanted some of the zillion teasels. </span><br />
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<br />Lakehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08668365228927564661noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1577045849156915227.post-61771335291757762422015-09-20T14:23:00.002+01:002015-09-20T14:29:04.216+01:00Guerrilla Transplant<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">I've moved. No longer in walking distance of Dog Kennel Hill - but I'm still on a bus route and cant bear for it all to go to rack and ruin. Like the last 2 or 3 years we've had a plant-friendly lush spring followed by a month or more of no rain with hot sun. On the plus side the Acanthus is now established enough to flower - and the artichoke I planted last year also flowered. Once again, the tough plants have still fried on this very dry strip of land. So, I made use of a garden mag offer for 25 free lavender plants for the cost of postage and got zillions of little ones - gamely potted on by my mum. Hopefully they will bed in and do better with <a href="http://www.naomiklein.org/main" target="_blank">climate change</a>. In July, aided and abetted by troops old and new, I went to assess the damage and we cut down the dead and dug up the grass (which is the main suffocating weed now - even drowning out the michaelmas daisies). We planted lavenders and a pink yarrow along with a couple more Agave. Sadly no pics but lots of thankyous from drivers passing by (including a friend from Kent who I had told about our endeavours and who randomly drove by just as we were all hard at work).</span><br />
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But in the short-term I have taken it into my own hands and risked planting a Fig tree and a Bay in the middle of the raised beds near the Launderette and Reyna Restaurant. They are bang in the middle of the beds so hopefully will be less obvious for the vandals who have yanked stuff out before. Actually my lovely fellow conspirator Wood put those two in, while I added another red hot poker, more mint, and did the usual litter clean up. We also put in two sarcococca (winter box) in the more shaded bed (where my friend Rosie has recently put in some more Hollyhocks). We got water for the trees from the fine folk at the <a href="http://thelpbar.co.uk/" target="_blank">LP Bar</a>. Bay trees are slow but solid growing evergreens that can make a 7ft tree if left alone. Figs can get enormous but there will be some root restriction in that raised bed (which will be good for fruit production).</div>
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</span>Lakehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08668365228927564661noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1577045849156915227.post-88716477248392884712014-10-25T14:35:00.000+01:002014-10-26T08:16:10.086+00:00Southern Cross<div style="clear: both; text-align: left;">
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">So after several bags of rubbish removal, we tidied up the insanely congested iris rhizomes (I would still love to chop these up and redistribute them for an even vaster sea of iris...) and planted anew. Rosemary, Leucanthem (shasta daisy), Verbena Bonariensis and Japanese Anemone went in. I hope they stay... This was the spot where I planted wild carrots (<a href="http://guerillere.blogspot.co.uk/2014/06/cross-fire.html" target="_blank">which were doing great</a> until the Sunflowers drowned them out) and an Aquilegia (hopefully that seeded before equally losing out to the yellow forest). </span><span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">The new plants are all tough, invasive and nectar rich - ideal for this location.</span><span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; font-size: large;"> They are also perennial - so year round greenery and less labour intensive in terms of care (in theory).</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">an Acanthus, a Hollyhock, a Hardy Geranium (donated by @LewishamGardens) and some emerging shoots of an Arum Lily. The alchemilla and dogwood that @LewishamGardens also supplied did not survive the heat/sunflower domination, sigh. There were 2 other Acanthus planted that had re-emerged from previous over-zealous weeding but hopefully this one is sufficiently large not to be misrecognised.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">Happened to be walking past the beds next to the former Job Centre on Camberwell Green and snapped the progress of these totally untended plants. I havent touched them for at least a year, nice to see several spikes of Hollyhocks and the skeletal frame of a Teasel (which means it will have seeded). Its still an extended rubbish dump but at least these guys made it through - transplanted from Dog Kennel Hill.</span></div>
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<br />Lakehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08668365228927564661noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1577045849156915227.post-52362301859074554752014-08-10T18:16:00.003+01:002014-08-10T18:17:40.620+01:00Hot bed<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">When I was a child growing up in Sussex we spent all 'summer' hoping that at some point the temperatures would hit 70 degrees, ideally coinciding with a weeks holiday in Cornwall. It rarely did (apart from in 1976). This is the second year in a row my patch has fried due to No Rain. Yes, ironically I am writing this after the weather has broken and we have had quite a bit of rain for a day, off the back of Hurricane Bertha. But the point remains. No rain in June, hardly any in July. Deep fried guerrilla gardens... </span><span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">And so it was that like last summer I met up with a lovely young man for a GG interview, this time Jan van Duppen who is studying at the OU and in exchange - tho' he needed little encouragement - we went to Dog Kennel Hill and chopped down 3 bags of dried out Hollyhocks, Michaelmas daisies and most of it really.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">I did have 2 new shorter type Verbenas and 2 experimental Cleomes, a foxglove and a couple of Lychnis to go in, but to see any improvement we need more of the wet stuff. We left a few of the teasels standing for structure (and they may still have seeds in the flower heads, which birds like to eat). On the day we two blondes needed to be rescued by my partner armed with suncream and bottled water. It was filthy hot work. Jan seemed to attract a doubting Thomas who was apparently asking who we were, implying we had no authority to be doing such things, which was true. Sadly he didnt feel strongly enough to come closer to actually have a real conversation about it, which I would have enjoyed.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">I returned yesterday and cleared up 2 bags more and added in 2 more foxgloves, 1 more Lychnis and 2 Alchemilla. 3 people thanked me from their cars which was nice. Lots of the Ox-eye daisies are growing back, and the bedded-in fennel and irises have all coped very well, but otherwise it is pretty barren. Like last year I know it will green over in a lovely lush way within about a month (assuming more rain - difficult to assume!). If not this spot will be getting some Agave Americana and be renamed California.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;"><br /></span>Lakehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08668365228927564661noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1577045849156915227.post-5508793279689859082014-06-07T19:01:00.003+01:002014-06-07T22:58:50.345+01:00Cross Fire<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Today I met a woman previously encountered only as @LewishamGardens who - I really dont quite understand this - is involved with the Chelsea Flower Show, or maybe a Fringe event and consequently has access to a load of plants afterwards to be re-distributed to Good Causes. She offered me plants. I said yes. It was also another chance to thin out the Agave jungle from my parents garden, so she got 4 Agaves for her thought. Chauffeured by J, we also picked up someone who is connected to Cafe Crema in New Cross getting plants for the little oasis that now flourishes in the cafe's back garden. After the torrential rain turned to drizzle we set out. Picking up K from CC and her 9 yr old son we arrived at St Mungo's, got thru the gates, got out of the car only to have A yell "Hide the Child!" Wow, I thought, she is worse than me. That is out there child-phobia... However it transpired that St Mungo's is a hostel for homeless people and they have regs barring children from the premises</span><span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">[!].</span><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;"> Securing T in the car, K and I then basically crammed in as many plants as we could... Should of hired a van...</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">After redelivering K, T and plants to their place, we went off to New Cross where my accomplice Wood met me trowel in hand and there we planted, hoping that no more drunks randomly pull stuff out, nor no more unknowing volunteers 'weed' out my plants in the interest of the wonderful yet one-season-only sunflower... Ahem. It was also yet another day in which we should have been secretly filming the response. This time a woman came up and demanded plant advice - going home AND returning with her floppy Calla Lily. I did tell her that while I was admittedly a great gardener I had killed 3 Callas previously as they are fussy buggers and not at all like Arum Lillies despite the resemblance. She would not go. We decided she had to repot and I gave her a pot from the St Mungo's hoard. We then had to dissuade her from taking soil from the raised beds for the purpose!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">The Big Bed. Added in today: 1 x Cornus, 1 x Hardy Geranium, 2 x Alchemilla from St Mungo's, plus 1 x Arum Lily from my parents' bottomless pit of them. Previously I put in an Acanthus which is hanging on...</span><br />
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For all those interested in helping out or developing your own guerrilla team. This is the main patch I have been working on, now fully recovered from the summer's drought and beautifully green, if full of weeds. The pics are from October. It runs up Dog Kennel Hill adjacent to Sainsburys in East Dulwich. In the middle of a busy road with Night Bus traffic and getting full sunshine, it is a warm patch that can protect vulnerable plants in winter but also seriously dries out and the soil quality is pretty dire. Hence the plants that the council apparently once planted here mostly died and now they only properly manage about 4 long rectangles of land with seasonal bedding (the kind of stuff that is colourful year-round but is nectar-lite and utterly pointless if you are an insect or a bird). The stuff I plant must be tough, ideally self-seeding (e.g. California Poppies) or invasive (e.g. Euphorbia) in ordinary gardens and have flowers that contain pollen. I am much more weed tolerant here - unless it is smothering other plants I let them be (things like dandelions are full of pollen anyway). I haven't planted any veg because of the quality of the soil - it would need serious improvement (bags of compost dug in), and due to the time available I have to tend it. However Giovanni (from <a href="http://www.antennae.org.uk/" target="_blank">Antennae</a>) has given me a wonderful artichoke and I do want to try that in this patch (they always succumb to snails in my garden - but this dry patch is virtually mollusc free). </div>
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My ambition for Dog Kennel Hill is to plant the entire strip that the council neglect - about 3/5ths done! I have a whole load of plants waiting to get planted here so any help would be grand. I can supply a few extra pairs of gloves and waste bags, though I only have one trowel now (unless anyone wants to wield a spade...).</div>
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I've also started adding stuff in to the raised pits near the bus stops near Reyna restaurant in New Cross Road, so very near Goldsmiths, piggy-backing on the stupendous sunflower project run by New-Xing and Artmongers. This is necessary - I hate empty/neglected plant pits plus the <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2013/jul/30/buzzfeeds-bees-colony-collapse-disorder" target="_blank">bee crisis</a> continues unabated, but it is more vulnerable to theft and damage than DKH. Hence I'm thinking thistle type plants like Echinops and teasels.</div>
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Future-wise, everytime I go past Peckham Fire Station on the 171 or 436 I look at the 5 or so concrete planters outside it that are empty! I'd love to plant stuff there - like some of the Hollyhocks that selfseed wildly on DKH. That would need some donated compost however, and probably someone with a car!</div>
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...a must-share video from this lovely man, Ron Finley, guerrilla gardening fruit and veg in South Central Los Angeles...: "gardening is my graffiti"Lakehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08668365228927564661noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1577045849156915227.post-79451696503731063972013-09-13T19:54:00.000+01:002013-09-13T19:54:21.412+01:00Wet Wet DrySeptember, and a rude autumnal awakening. Its raining a lot. I decided to plant a few more geraniums, euphorbia and michaelmas daisies in Stories Road as its technically ideal planting weather. Such is the strength of the tree in the pit that digging small holes for these new plants soon found dry soil. But its looking pretty good. Talked to by one mad woman complaining about hating Shakespeare and one elderly good burgher who said "well done". <br />
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<br />Lakehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08668365228927564661noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1577045849156915227.post-42014085073184659182013-08-11T20:15:00.000+01:002013-08-11T20:15:11.416+01:00Storied Road<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">
Stories Road doing pretty well given the heat and the tree dominating this pit. I added another clump of michaelmas daisies, an alchemilla and a hardy geranium.</div>
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and McNeil Road - revived by Nick with some unmissable plants and shorn by the council. This time they only dealt with the brambles and the stuff growing on the bridge. Shame really as brambles are very wildlife friendly...<br />
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<br />Lakehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08668365228927564661noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1577045849156915227.post-54323609934738455322013-08-10T18:10:00.000+01:002013-08-10T19:24:09.540+01:00Patch workedWell. The Dog Kennel Hill patch was fried in the 4 weeks of 30degrees and no rain. In spite of 2 mad dashes with buckets and assembled friends a lot of the plants really suffered. However in the last couple of weeks there has been regular rain so I risked planting some more stuff - the usual suspects, lychnis, alchemilla, leucanthemum. More excitingly, I met up with a very sweet young man doing an anthropology degree and interested in guerrilla gardening and together we planted in 4 Verbena Bonariensis next to the irises and chopped down all the browned stems of the hollyhocks, daisies and everything else singed and burnt. A lovely middle-aged Asian man simply said 'thank you' when he was waiting by the traffic lights.<br />
It looks a bit desecrated but give it a few weeks and this patch will rock again. <br />
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...and here is the petit pit in Camberwell Grove - the one place that was close enough to maintain through the heat. Plus the people from the Vineyard have helped out. Subsequently some vile person [a plague on them] pulled out one of the verbenas by the roots and just left it there. I've replaced it with small ones. </div>
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Lakehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08668365228927564661noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1577045849156915227.post-46872186246839008232013-07-31T12:32:00.001+01:002013-07-31T12:35:07.937+01:00New New CrossI passed through New Cross today and added in another Verbena Bonariensis [and was relieved to see the others were surviving thanks to the sudden rain we have at last had], and another Mexican Sunflower (Tithonia 'Torch') to the pit immediately opposite the Launderette.<br />
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Here's the Mexican peeping through in the first pit to which I contributed. It will emerge above the yellow ones in a few weeks... I also added a 3rd Leucanthemum daisy here - they should bed in as strong evergreen perennials...<br />
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And here's a nasturtium. Its not one of the most rampant types but should self-seed for next year. You can still see some of the rubbish in these pics but I ended up clearing about 20 cans and bottles... At some point I'll bring my teasel seedlings here - they have toothed edges on every surface and might possibly slightly help a bit with dissuading people from littering the pits.<br />
I would love to sort out the massively overgrown and congested irises in these beds. They are very easy to propagate [dig up; divide the rhizome into pieces about 4" long and replant, cutting down the dead foliage and trimming the green to 4" to allow all the energy to go into the rhizome for next year]. The existing clumps are so big they could be re-distributed through every bed in this strip of New Cross Rd.Lakehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08668365228927564661noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1577045849156915227.post-25386118958049902622013-07-14T21:21:00.002+01:002013-08-01T11:18:55.719+01:00Holy heliotrope!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<a href="http://artmongersaction.org/about/" target="_blank">Artmonger</a>, Patricio Forrester and <a href="http://newxing.wordpress.com/" target="_blank">New X-ing</a> have collaborated on a brilliant project to cheer up New Cross Road, SE14, and help the bees. '1000 Sunflowers for New Cross' has lived up to its name and planted sunflowers everywhere - in the neglected raised beds and in makeshift planters outside shops. These are Patricio's pics - witness the bee!<br />
I've added some Mexican Sunflowers (Tithonia) and a few perennials too - Crocosmia, Verbena Bonariensis, and Leucanthemum daisies. Huzzah! I've had my eye on these neglected pits for months...<br />
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Lakehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08668365228927564661noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1577045849156915227.post-44688725043186290982013-05-19T20:30:00.000+01:002013-05-23T10:41:08.462+01:00The Pits of Grove ParkHere are just a few of Helena's stupendous pits dotted around Grove Park:<br />
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for those that don't know the area, Grove Park is a long road with many trees in it. Helena has single-handedly spear-headed this community dig and about 14 of the pits are planted up and looking gorgeous.<br />
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<br />Lakehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08668365228927564661noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1577045849156915227.post-37921857252455320132013-05-05T15:08:00.000+01:002013-05-05T15:08:33.777+01:00spring forwardLots to report. Firstly it is actually behaving like spring and thus everything is growing beautifully. Minus the plant that was stolen from Mcneil Road... Tragically I think it might have been someone seeing us team dig that spot and realised there were some interesting plants going in not 'just' weeds... I wish a plague of vine weevils on them. They nicked the bigger of the Sarcococca Confusas that I planted in January. No more of them for easy to get at spots. Actually they have struggled in Dog Kennel Hill so maybe I'll just keep them all.<br />
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Dog Kennel Hill is entering its glory days... I've just added in more Alchemilla Mollis, Lychnis and Hardy Geraniums, and weeded out 3 bags of smothering stuff. I notice that one of the Irises I planted out last summer is coming into flower! And the bronze fennels in between them are surviving. Some yellow and white daisy things are in flower plus the odd bit of vinca, and of course the euphoria of the Euphorbia. There's a bit of a task ahead to sort out section 4 which has large clumps of Hollyhocks on the edges, which is not good: they need to keep the centre line. I've got a whole load of Japanese Anemones growing in pots: a few weeks and they'll find join this patch. More pink alas, but bee-friendly.<br />
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Stories Road treepit is also triumphant<br />
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Camberwell Green raised pits next to the former job centre is ok. That has the driest, dustiest soil. But maybe the mint was pulled up from there too? The game survivor is Golden Rod (Solidago) and I think some shasta daisies (Leucanthem) plus, and of course! the hollyhocks... I added in some Giant Russian sunflower seeds and some small friends of Borage.<br />
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Camberwell Grove petit pit is still going strong<br />
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<br />Lakehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08668365228927564661noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1577045849156915227.post-35867858116301474332013-04-19T08:28:00.000+01:002013-04-21T10:36:06.493+01:00Up the JunctionThere is now a budding guerrilla garden on the corner of Mcneil Road and Camberwell Grove. The Sarcococca I added in 3 months ago are surviving and the Chef and C have gamely started adding in lots of donated stuff - brunnera, crocosmia, day lillies and more. I've added in 3 clumps of hardy geranium (donated from Clive of <a href="http://alternative-planting.blogspot.co.uk/" target="_blank">Grove Park open exotic garden</a> fame) and cleared back some of the layering brambles to a. try and protect the young trees, b. give us more space to plant, and c. allow some space to get close to the fencing to plant nasturtium seeds. No need to totally clear the brambles because they are very wildlife friendly [flowers and fruit] - just a bit rampant when left to themselves. I really hope the nasturtiums grow as there's plenty of room for a great display.<br />
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