Beginners Gardening

ANCHOR: And if flowers and herbs suddenly manifest in your neighborhood overnight would you be pleased or annoyed. These days we are often greeted with some ghastly new graffiti, but flowers? Lets see the effect: STORY: Guerrilla gardener Richard Reynolds began what he terms guerilla gardening four years ago. That was when he found himself with nowhere at all to garden. And digging up someone else’s land is criminal damage. [Richard Reynolds, Guerrilla gardener]: ”Where there’s land that’s …

Olympics 2012, and it has become just another piece of land to be flattened, community dispersed and its history erased… to be replaced by a concrete path. But campaigners are determined to persuade the authorities that the destruction of this special place would be an unnecessary and tragic loss, and their retention within the Olympic 2012 site would be a tremendous and imaginative asset. First shown on BBC1′s InsideOut on 30 Oct 2006. … allotments london olympics 2012 community …

A short report by Richard Reynolds of the guerrilla garden of sunflowers planted opposite the Houses of Parliament in London England.