Or if you're too lazy, I'll briefly explain it: guerrilla gardening is cultivating neglected land that does not belong to you, basically making small parts of the city beautiful. It started in London with a man named Richard Reynolds (who spoke to our class today). He planted flowers and other plants on public land in the middle of the night and continues to care of it. He planted seeds with his own money, on his own time. The movement has grown from there, all local people who want to make and keep their residence beautiful.
It's attracted some media attention:
like this article in the NY Times
And I think it's a lovely idea. That's all I'm going to say for now, but I think the Philly area could use something like this. So, just keep that in mind when I head back to the States.
A guerrilla lavender garden found in the London borough of Lamberth.
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