Lethbridge Guerilla Gardening Community Projects

Thinking and Dreaming of Spring and the New Boulevarden

2011-02-18T12:26:00.004-07:00

For inspiration I am reading Avant Gardeners: 50 visionaries of the Contemporary Landscape by Tim Richardson. I bought this book when I was in Montreal last fall. It reminded me why I wanted the Boulevarden - the purpose of Guerilla Gardening. There is a review of the book here

I am also reading the ThinkinGardens blog whose manifesto is: The thinkinGardens group is exploring a new way of thinking about, and discussing, gardens. This manifesto sets out the agenda for change, and asks the reader to contribute to this debate.

Is it fate? Begun June 9th - Finished September 25th

2009-06-09T13:34:00.010-06:00

Well...I'mmmmmmmmmm baaaaack! I have been having a weird time - I have been sick much of spring and so behind in my gardening. When I am behind in my gardening I can not enjoy sitting on my deck, so I have been stuck inside pouting.

I am behind...
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The above beginning of a post was started like umm three...ug no four months ago...something else I did not finish this summer. I have no idea why I titled the blog 'is it fate?'...but it seemed like a shouldn't change it as it might have been fated so.

Last weekend I did a performance related to my current gardening state...the pictures on above and below.

I'll be back next summer - then we can take over the world on guerilla garden at a time - get arrested for planting carrots and share conversation over a bed of Thyme.

Cheers,
Loralee

If you would like to see more photos of the performance and process you can HERE

Sweet Sheds

2008-10-28T10:40:00.001-06:00

Showy sheds: These garden hideaways are packed with creativity

by Lori Mendoza, special to The Oregonian
Wednesday June 18, 2008, 2:12 PM

Barry Steel

Garden sheds used to be dank, dusty outbuildings designed solely to store lawn mowers, hoses, tools and pots. No longer. Today's garden shed is still big on storage, but it also has lots of style.

We've seen many great sheds as we've toured area gardens -- and we've shown many of them on the pages of HGNW. In fact, there were so many, we decided that creating unique sheds had become something of a Northwest pastime.

Clearly it was time to do some serious reporting and find out what other gems were out there. Turns out that wasn't necessary; with a small notice in a single HGNW issue -- headlined, "Show us your sheds" -- we got more material than we could use.

With 87 examples to choose from, we had a hard time culling our selections to the 10 that represented the various styles. In fact, we couldn't, so we decided to feature 12.

But at the end of the story, keep on scrolling and you'll find photos of more sheds we love.

Steven Nehl / The Oregonian

All-weather delight
Pat Eckerdt, Salem

This cobblestone and cedar-shake shed, built by Dene Byers, then a 75-year-old retired mason, is the work center for Eckerdt's two-acre garden. But it's the interior touches -- pots transformed into light fixtures and a mosaic design on the floor -- that make it stand out.

With heat from a wood stove and daylight from six skylights, Eckerdt can make the most of cool and warm days. Door handles made from a garden fork and a cement trowel keep the focus where Eckerdt wants it: on the garden.

Simple but elegant
Bob and Peggy Hanson,
Dundee

Bob and Peggy Hanson

The Hansons started with a simple plan: a place to store tools and pot some plants. Then a stained-glass window picked up at a garage sale years earlier caused the plan to take an elegant turn.

Bob drew inspiration from the classic state-park structures and started with a stone-covered foundation. The 'Cecile Brunner' climbing rose reminds Peggy of her grandmother's rose garden.

"It is a wonderful place to have an early-morning cup of coffee or to putter on a rainy day," Peggy says. Oh, and it does store tools.

Portable, too
Barry and Joni Steel,
Manzanita

Barry Steel

The Steels learned a lesson when they sold their Portland home and the buyers insisted on keeping the greenhouse. This time, Barry built the shed/greenhouse in 4-foot modules so that it can be dismantled and moved.

Joni's cactus collection "thrives in its new home -- in our very non-desertlike climate," says Barry. He used windows they already had, glass panels from a local recycling center, and a discarded Dutch door and oak arched windows from friends.

It's not a yurt; it's not a spa
Patricia Kilgore,
Hillsboro