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Yes! Even More Plant Donations - Huge Plants!!!

I received an email from a new friend in Wrigley asking if I would take some plants as donations.  I ask her to send me a few photos so I could see what type of plants they were. I could not believe it when I looked at the pictures! As you can see these plants are incredible!!

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This is a fantastic, very large Agave Americana Medio picta with over 30 pups. Half a dozen of the pups are ready to into 1 gallon pots or larger right away.

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This very nice, 5+ foot tall, Euphorbia will be brought to SoCal headquarters and rooted up in a pot to get it ready to go into a guerrilla garden in the fall.

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This cactus is well over 6 feet and we’re going to move to the new PCH garden and hope it holds up over the summer.

 

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This is one of two huge furcraea selloa donated to SCGG that will be moved into the new PCH garden right away.

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This is the other selloa - big enough now but future monster!! Believe it or not these plants can grown to over 15 feet tall!!! I bought a furcraea just like these (but smaller) at H&H and planted in a guerrilla garden and the city of LA took it out.  Funny, but once again a plant gets removed from a guerrilla garden by a city or pilferer and we get donations of more of the same plant. And usually, as in this case, the plants are bigger and better then the ones removed. To weird!! But in a very good way!!

MORE DONATIONS! OVER 1000 PLANTS THIS YEAR!!

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Here are some of the over 30 large Aloe Vera plants donated by Alan from Long Beach. He read about us in the 6-8-09 OC Weekly and didn’t want these beautiful aloes any more so he contacted us to pick them up. Thanks Alan!! On the way over to Alan house I found another site in Long Beach not far from his house that we will be working this fall. I’ll be posting a date and time much a later this year, after the heat of summer is gone.

Harvest Time!

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I went early to work today and “cleaned and gleaned” the Loynes garden. These are some of the 30+ plants I harvested. We’ll clean and pot them up for planting later this fall. This group will be added to the many dozens of plants we’ve already gleaned from guerrilla gardens this spring. And we’ll soon remove and pot up even more plants making for hundreds of gleaned plants for this fall guerilla gardening season. I can’t wait for the fall!!

New Long Beach site on Naples Island

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I introduced myself to Marilyn Bittle from the Naples Island
Garden Club at their fundraiser Saturday. I told her I was
going to put a garden in at this spot and asked if her club
might be interested in coming out and working with me to do
the planting. At first she thought I was looking for help
raising money or donations. I said I’m just looking for help in
digging holes and planting plants. I thought about doing this
project solo but I would like to get the neighborhood
involved. This is another action in my efforts toward a new
paradigm - I’ll blog more on that later!  This is going to be a
big garden and it’s a great location, right at the entrance to
the island as you come over the second street bridge.
Marilyn already knows, my friend, Ramon from the city so
between the two of us we hopefully should be able to get
Long Beach to handle the watering system. I’m hoping to
get a drip system installed and use this location as example
as to how little water is needed to maintain a beautiful
drought tolerant garden. Long Beach has been out head of
most California cities on water conservation so I’d love to
meter the water usage and post a sign (I hate signage - but
this would serve the better good!) telling how little water
was used for a given time - say a month or better yet for a
whole year. I think it will only need watering once or twice a
month from June through mid October. We are just in the
planning stages now but I hope to move forward on this
project pretty fast.
As always you can email us using the “contact us” page if
you want to get involved in this project, have a spot you
need help with, or if you want to help out with any other
SoCal Guerrilla Gardening project.

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Two new spots for guerrilla gardening - with permits?

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After loosing two guerrilla gardens to the city of Los Angeles this spring I’ve decided to get permits for these two new spots. OK, so it’s not very guerrilla but twice the city has removed gardens and then came in and put in a watering system. If we work with through the cites adopt a spot and adopt a median programs I think we can put in great gardens and get the city to supply the means for a drip watering system. So here are two new spots in LA. the top one is on Santa Monica east of Bundy, where Ohio runs into Santa Monica Blvd. The other spot for a new guerrilla garden is nice big spot at 8th and Valencia Blvd. I’m applying for adopt a spot permits for both these site and trying to get water to the sites before we start the gardening. If we get the water turned on we will get going as soon as I get the paper work (wow! that sounds really weird) If there’s not going to be water we will probably wait until the fall to put these gardens in. Both these spots are large and I can’t wait to get planting what are going to be unbelievable gardens.

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Guerrilla Garden at 101 and Normandie pulled out by Los Angeles

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All that is left of the guerrilla garden we put in a few months ago at the Normandie off ramp of the 101 is the agave perryi at the tip of the spot. The city pulled everything else out and put in a rock garden with a few plants. I going to wait a while and then go back in and fill the bare areas in with some nice agaves.

SoCal Guerrilla Gardening on ABC tonight

SoCal Guerrilla Gardening is going to be on ABC network news to night at 6:30pm. The video is going to be towards the end of the show about 6:50pm. They came out to SoCal headquarters and a dig in Hollywood back in August of last year.

New Guerrilla Gardens in Wrigley, Long Beach

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Some of the plants we used in the new guerrilla garden planted today in the Wrigley area of Long Beach. Thanks to everyone that came out and helped plant a couple of great gardens.
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Adriana is one of the newest guerrilla gardener from Wrigley. She and her husband Hector helped to organize the dig in their neighborhood.

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Blanca and Ruben from SCR came down and helped out with the plantings. Kelly came from Santa Ana and Nick also came out to their first guerrilla gardening dig.

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The spots were mostly clean with very few weeds so the planting went pretty fast leaving plenty of time to get to know new friends.  
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New spot in Long Beach

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Here’s a new spot in Long Beach I found while scouting another location. I’ve scouted out quite a few locations in this area of Long Beach. We won’t get to most of them until next fall as it’s getting near the end of the guerrilla gardening season for SoCal and this spot does not have any water. Fortunately a few spots I’ve found in this part of town have sprinklers and if we can get the city to fix and turn them on we can get to them soon. We’re counting on you Ramon!

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