Socal Guerrilla Gardening

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!!

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.

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

June 28th, 2009 | Tags: Guerrilla Gardening, plant donations, socal guerrilla gardening | Category: Curent projects, Donate plants for guerrilla gardening, New Guerrilla Garden in Long Beach, Uncategorized | Leave a comment

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.

June 13th, 2009 | Tags: Guerrilla Gardening, Los Angeles Guerrilla Gardening, socal guerrilla gardening | Category: Donate plants for guerrilla gardening, socal guerrilla gardening | Leave a comment

June 13th, 2009 | Tags: guerrilla gardening. LA guerrilla gardening. gleaning p, Los Angeles Guerrilla Gardening, socal guerrilla gardening | Category: Harvested plants, Uncategorized, socal guerrilla gardening | Leave a comment

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.

June 7th, 2009 | Category: Curent projects, New Guerrilla Garden in Long Beach, socal guerrilla gardening | Leave a comment

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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.

April 25th, 2009 | Tags: Guerrilla Gardening, socal guerrilla gardening | Category: Curent projects, New Guerrilla Garden in Long Beach | Comments (3)