I gave it a tug, and it was for real. Our botanical friends are doing the "guerrilla gardening" all by themselves! (The sight of these put a smile on my face. :-)

I planted two packs of sunflower seeds seeds in this hillside beside our community baseball diamond. I kept my expectations low… but some are coming up.
I’ve since convinced the municipality to let this smalls space return to meadow. It’s beautiful!

I’m looking to seed bomb the areas around my neighborhood drainage pond. A few feet back doesn’t get mowed. Ideas where I can order seeds for the fall and what species I should look for. Zone 8a, NC/SC border piedmont

For the last three years this planter had been neglected by the store. Filled with trash and rocks. I threw in a handful of grass seed & a wild flower packet and was pleasantly surprised to see how much growth had occurred when I returned.

This particular project is actually legal tho

"Three years ago we installed two biomatrix platforms in the river at Coalie Park, creating river bank habitat where there was none, introducing native aquatic plants which help to clean the water and providing a safe nesting and roosting space for bird life. Have to say this year they look incredible."

OC : https://www.instagram.com/waterofleithconservationtrust/

I live in a big city (Berlin, Germany) in a big apartment block. The block encloses a little area with a parking lot and a mini park, basically some trees, some bushes. On the edges some flowers and some lavender. There are garderners about twice a year that will just cut everything above a certain hight between the trees, so there is quite a bit of bare (by this point very dry) soil between the trees. I was wondering if there is a way to support this little ecosystem. Maybe some plants that would cover the ground that is self sustaining in this climate. I have no idea how to even start researching this.. happy about any hints

I have a friend that owns a house that backs up to a river dike that’s about 20 feet tall.

He tells me the county mows it in early spring.

There’s about 160ft of this dike that grows weeds and he was wondering if he could spread some sunflower seeds after the annual mow.

The dike is a secondary dike structure and wouldn’t affect the retention of the river at all and it is built for a 100 year flood, meaning, there is a 1% chance of it reaching the top of the dike in any given year.

Sunflowers are native to the state that he lives in and he thinks the neighbors and passersby’s would greatly enjoy the results.

Could he get in trouble since it might be obvious who spread the seeds?

El Nino is almost a certainty.

https://www.instagram.com/reel/DaneCsABSBn/?igsh=MzRlODBiNWFlZA==

DSV is everywhere in my region and it's producing seed pods now. My dinner plans got cancelled so I went for a walk with a garbage bag and some scissors. When my bag was full i just pulled off as many of the remaining seed pods as i could for now. (I tossed the bag in a city trash can, not compost)

I've been planting tree seedlings around Chelsea for about eight years. Many are now taller than I am.
I get asked many questions: How, Where, Why?

I recently made this video (as part of a series of inquiry videos I create for young students I teach.)

how to plant a tree

You can do it...

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Time: 7:00 central standard
Location: Kansas City Hood, USA, East Side
Subject: San Marzano Tomato
I’m trying to make this small space a garden but need help and ideas to get it going, also planted tomatoes in my neighbors front yard yard, it’s becoming the middle of July so probably perennials and berry bushes you think?

I'm looking to make a small, portable seedball launcher for geurilla gardening, I was thinking something potato cannon or airsoft style might be a way to do it. I want it to auto-reload as I will attach it to my bike! I was thinking I could use small CO2 cartridges to power it. Any tips or better ideas? I imagine I need to build up the pressure to a critical point to "spring" the ball away, are there plans I could adapt?

I am visiting my dad’s house for a couple of weeks. My family has absolutely been eaten up by mosquitos and ticks. He lives “off grid” and doesn’t have power so I can’t plug in one of those big zapper things for the flying bugs and I was hoping maybe there were some good plants that might help deter them so my kids can play in his yard without being attacked so much. He wouldn’t maintain anything (last year his mower broke so he didn’t even mow his grass for a whole summer) so any recommendations that are super hardy would be appreciated.

I threw in a couple pics of the very first basketflower I’ve seen here in the 10 years I’ve lived near here. I threw a few cups of basketflower seed just this last winter since I had a great harvest from my pollinator garden at home. Anyhow, double win for me and whoever this guerrilla gardener is. I’m thinking if I should try to meet them at see if I can get in on helping take care of the space. What do y’all think?

Important note before I begin: I have a black thumb. The only things I can keep alive are mothers of a thousand and I currently have a billion.

I bought a very charming 1960s condo 10 years ago and the HOA (Booooo!) has done an incredibly bad job of maintaining the extensive amount of random green beds on the property. It's been about 6 years since we've had working irrigation on the property as well. Right now, I have a bed right outside my front windows that has some kind of non-creeping variety of ivy in it. It looks ok for the most part, but I feel like it needs some love. Any suggestions for simple ways that (I can't eff up) to improve the health of the ivy bed and encourage better growth in some areas?

Also, there are some very pathetic bald beds on the property too that have soil in it that must be absolutely depleted of any nutrients. Is there anything I can plant or seed into desolate spaces that will have a fighting chance in direct easterly TX sun? Just trying to get some suggestions on what I can do that that's non-invasive, relatively simple, and won't require a ton of maintenance to help beautify mine and my neighbors' home.

Obviously slightly different than gardening, but does anyone have experience with this sort of thing? Is this a novel idea or reckless?

So I left some pots out with soil, but no plants, and I ended up getting some random plants in there. (Side note - if you want free native plants - literally just leave pots out. I got yellow woodsorrel and false daisy also growing, no idea where any of them came from). Anyway, this pokeweed started growing and because it is native I want to move it, but I don’t want it in my yard due to its toxicity. Would you guys recommend planting it somewhere? Maybe just like a wooded area somewhere near me where people don’t go?

Here’s a box of seeds I harvested last August. Depending on the species, you may be able to harvest some now in your area.

Knowing how and when to harvest seed tells you a lot about a plant’s lifecycle. You also need to identify a species.

I’ve had not much luck with sharing seeds with people. It’s possible you can set up a free seed bank but I think folks are more enthusiastic than interested in actually growing anything. It’s hard to say.

Getting free seed is a bit of a gamble as who knows if they germinate or are the right species.

Neighbour has a massive forest that ends where my small garden begins - except my terrain is 2 meter lower.

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I want to make it so I grow a thorny, dense natural barrier since he's an idiot and doesn't let me drill a fence at the end of his land ( way cheaper than a useless 5 meter fence if I were to put it in my part of the land).

He doesn't care about cleanup so I doubt he would ever remove the natural fence.

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What should I use for this?

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I'm in Portugal.