Guerrilla Gardening Comes To Chester

A group of Chester res­i­dents, hav­ing noticed that there is neglect­ed and orphaned land all over the city, decid­ed to form a guer­ril­la gar­den­ing troop. The term ‘guer­ril­la gar­den­ing’ is used loose­ly to describe dif­fer­ent forms of rad­i­cal gar­den­ing. Some­times this is gar­den­ing with polit­i­cal aims — per­haps high­light­ing land use issues — or some­times it is about grow­ing food.

A group of Chester res­i­dents, hav­ing noticed that there is neglect­ed and orphaned land all over the city, decid­ed to form a guer­ril­la gar­den­ing troop. The term ‘guer­ril­la gar­den­ing’ is used loose­ly to describe dif­fer­ent forms of rad­i­cal gar­den­ing. Some­times this is gar­den­ing with polit­i­cal aims — per­haps high­light­ing land use issues — or some­times it is about grow­ing food.

The troop of Guer­ril­la Gar­den­ers have been out and about in Chester. Their first project inv­oled trans­form­ing three lit­ter strewn planters on Christle­ton Road, one of the main gate­ways to the city. Lit­ter and weeds were removed and replaced with win­ter pan­sies, daf­fodils, for­get-me-nots and hon­ey­suck­le.

The troop wants to reclaim land from per­ceived neglect and mis­use. Armed with trow­els, bulbs and vision, their idea is to gar­den every­where, any­where.

One Guer­ril­la Gar­den­er stat­ed:

’ I was fed up of see­ing these planters filled with rub­bish and weeds every time I walked into the City Cen­tre. I want­ed to reclaim this resource for us all to enjoy’

The Guer­ril­la Gar­den­ers want to make Chester a more appeal­ing place to live, beau­ti­fy­ing the neigh­bour­hood and giv­ing it back to the com­mu­ni­ty.

To get involved or donate plants/saplings/ shrubs

con­tact chesterguerrillagardeners@hotmail.co.uk