Subject: Move Over Miss Rumphius!

**"* G* <s*@thecreativegardener.com>**

Cheryl, 
I just read another "mini" version of this story in the latest issue of the
British Edition of Country Living magazine.
It is called "Guerilla Gardening" and the seed bombs are the weapons of war!
It did make me smile at the thought of mixing up and tossing cosmos seed
balls into a neighbor's ranky patch of whatever grows. 
Lots can be said about these random acts of gardening, including the
interesting comments on the NPR site, like to note about irresponsible
flower plantings (those bombs) rather than a more sustainable effect of
planting trees. I say get out the checkbook and shovel, buy the trees,
donate and dig. The potential lies in the concept of "Guerilla Gardening"
taken further as the concept (and actual doing) of re-purposing land into
healthy beautiful spaces,  whatever the method.  Like the note of a good
Samaritan gardener sneaking into an open lot and cleaning out ivy and
debris...
I do see potential....

Sue G.

Inspiring gardener's to create....
www.thecreativegardener.com 
Creative Gardener 
Gig Harbor, Washington 

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Message: 6
Date: Wed, 15 Apr 2009 17:01:24 -0700 (PDT)
From: Vermont Gardener <vermontgardener@yahoo.com>
Subject: [GWL] Move Over Miss Rumphius!
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Renegade gardening activists are pelting unsightly vacant lots with "seed
balls," National Public Radio reported today.

A technique that began in Japan cropped up in Brooklyn when folks walked
neighborhoods with bags of homemade wads of seeds and mulch rolled into
terra cotta clay balls that are tossed into abandoned sites in hope that the
seeds will sprout and grow on their own.

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=103129515

This has enormous creative potential, don't you think?

~Cheryl Dorschner
Vermont Gardener

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