Hi there! I live near a walking/biking path in central florida that is overrun with Florida Beggar ticks. I want to be able to walk my dog there without him taking home so many hitchhikers, but I know these are a native plant that provide nectar. The area is brackish marshland. Any recommendations for nectar producing plants I could source seeds for to try to overrun that beggar tick? Or in general- any recommendations for sourcing seed bombs native to florida?

I’ve been trying to get native seed mixes, but with little luck. I live in an area pretty bare or plants, collecting seeds from nearby is not an option. My friend gave me this mix and I’ve been trying to look up each one. However, if anyone notices any invasive ones in there then that would save me a lot of research for nought. I’ve notice some are not native but are also not invasive. Any help is appreciated.

Do you all just plant wildflowers, or do you plant food items as well? I’ve seen mostly flowers and trees so just curious.

UPDATE: I gathered up courage to tell my dad and he said to tell em to "go fly a kite" if they ask me what I'm doing next time, he thinks it's dumb that they care that much and is gonna talk with the car guy (he knows my dad) just to let him know that I meant no harm and that I should be able to continue to help out the park.

Thanks everyone for the advice!!

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There's a park within walking distance from my house that was recently restored. Some people donated to add paths, signs, and frisbee golf. It's a nice little park and I'm really happy that someone cared enough to start taking care of it again.

I noticed it has a lot of invasives so I started tearing some out every time I went and adding a few native bush live stakes and native flowers from my garden in their place. I usually go at a time when I know it'll be empty so I can pull shit without questions. I usually don't bring any large shovels, just a hand trowel and some shears, and keep the live stakes and flowers in my sweatshirt pocket/backpack. The land is pretty moist right now and a small bush, roots and all, can be pulled out by hand with a patient tug.

The park is bordered by a junk car dump which is separated from the park by a small stream and I usually do my pulling/planting in the back of the park near the dump because it's away from the houses nearby. Back there the park is also wooded and has excellent soil for wetland species and I have had success with starting elderberry, silky dogwood, and pussy willow stakes back there and it's extremely rewarding to watch them grow.

Well today I felt brave and I took a big shovel with me to take care of some bigger honeysuckles. While I started on my first one with the shovel (had pulled out about 15 smaller ones with my hands already), a guy came up to me through the car dump on the other side of the stream to ask me what I was doing and if the township knew I was doing this. Of course they don't, bc I never ask permission to tear out shit that shouldn't be here. I think he's the owner of the car dump that is across from the park because he stayed on that edge of the property while talking to me.

Conversation as follows:

I see him walking towards me from the car dump, I'm aggressively tearing out a big honeysuckle, I say "hello!" And wave.

"Hi... What are you doing? Are you planting trees?"

"I'm tearing out a few of these invasive bushes, they're really bad for the woods."

"You do know the township owns this right?"

"Yeah I do"

"Does the township know you're doing that?"

"No, is that okay?"

"What kind of bush is that?"

"Japanese honeysuckle, it's bad for the woods, and its growing too close to the path."

"Okay, you can finish tearing out that one but just don't do anymore before I talk to the township."

"Okay"

I finished tearing out the honeysuckle and left, but didn't get to plant what I had brought with me 🙃 he stayed there and watched me from across the stream while I walked away. Im usually decent at talking to people about plants and making myself sound good but I was caught off guard because he walked THROUGH THE CAR DUMP to talk to me. Dude appeared out of nowhere, and of course he saw me right when I started on the big one.

He didn't ask for my name but it's a small town and he might've recognized me as the daughter of someone he knows. I'll be embarrassed if this gets back to my parents (Im 24 but living with my parents while I look for a place to buy) and I'm worried I'll have to drag them into this if someone tells them.

Have y'all been confronted? Do people usually follow through with what they say? I know someone pulling out bushes in the park is freaking weird to the common person, and he was probably just confused. Maybe I should've asked the township first? I wasn't planning on someone appearing out of thin air from the fucking car dump next to me. I would've been more cautious.

I ditched my turf grass for natives over the fall, and I over ordered on a bunch of seeds, but I went way overboard on the black-eyed Susan’s. I spread a bunch in the yard in the fall and I have a bunch stratifying in my fridge, but I still have over half a pound and I don’t want it to just go bad.

Large grass field that nobody uses. In Northern Minnesota. Would love to plant milkweed for the Monarchs but the city mows it twice a year. Thoughts?

Hi folks, I’ve got an empty lot that is prime for some serious seed bombing (I’m thinking Californian poppies and paper daisies for the incoming winter, I know…. Not native, but this will be mown multiple times a year within a few years be a 30 storey apartment building)…

The fence cannot be climbed (it’s 12 ft cyclone wire with nothing more than upright posts), and it’s locked with hardened steel padlocks (people were parking in it, so they’ve locked it down).

What can I use to do a good spray of many small seeds in there?

And do I do a mash up of meadow mix, bird seed, meadow flowers and similar… we are in a drought (Perth West Australia) or do even just aim for wheat/barley (which I have ready access to). Lupins? Something for the bees?

I want to start adding plants to neighborhoods or wherever I can, but I’m not sure where to purchase native plant seeds online for a cheap price.

Any good sites so I can help the environment?

Gregor's final resting place is one of the many abandoned graves in our local cemetery. Signs tell me he didn't have a visitor in many, many years. There were only invasive weeds and grass on his grave, and a dead remnants of a rose bush under the trellis. Time for a makeover, Gregor!

Today I examined, weeded, tilled and added a temporary mulch - there was a cut down spruce tree nearby (score!) The seedlings are germinating on my window sill. Since it is a semi shady area, I am thinking climbing rose and ferns for starters. The ferns may be tricky, I have never cultivated them, but other graves have them and they seem to be thriving.

For the background activity you may check my previous post.

The bus stop by my place is totally uncovered and we get hella sun. Does anyone know best practice around right of way so that the tree I plant has the best chance of staying planted? The stop is infront of a large office building and there’s a sign for that building I think I have to worry about as well. Wish I can send a pic but would rather not!!

Hi all, I need some local advice.

There is a patch of grass near my home where the post box is for our street. Over the winter most of the grass died off, a snowplow took off the rest, and it’s underneath some trees so not much sun - and it’s now a patchy bit of dirt. It does not belong to any property, but the local government trims the grass when it gets long.

Because it’s now patchy dirt, I want to get in there before it gets re-seeded with grass, and spread some local native ground-covering plant that won’t get destroyed by the semi-regular grass cutting. But I’m an immigrant, and I am still learning about what’s actually native where I live and what isn’t, and I don’t want to fuck this up.

I live in southern Quebec; what grass-replacement native plant could I use? And would I be able to buy the seeds somewhere, or do I need to go out there and find the plant and harvest some seeds?

Alternatively, I did save a bunch of native wildflower seeds from my garden last year; I could technically go in there and plant those, but with both the mowing and the shade, I don’t think they will thrive, and I feel they will get removed.

Is there any way to counteract, or at least lessen the effects of weed killer? The gardening company for my block of flats just sprayed some over the green bushy plants that grow in between the cracks of the concrete pavement (which I quite like). Is there anything I can do for these little guys? Would water maybe water down the solution and make it less effective?

We recently did our first guerrilla gardening project by planting on a planter right in front of our ground-floor flat windows, this planter was dully abandoned by the building management. I've been reading about weed killers and how they are indiscriminate and can be damaging for the soil/nearby plants, and now I'm also worried for our planter, as the liquid was sprayed at the bottom of it.

I'm new to this so any help is very appreciated!

Most days I walk the stroller on our local cemetery. It's a huge one, there are people buried there who died up to 100 years ago. This is Europe, so many of the old graves don't have the top slab on, they are only covered with dirt with intention to grow flowers on top. A granite raised bed, if you please. The thing is, while many of the graves are attended to, there are many, many that have not been visited in years. How do I know: if you are not familiar with the practice - in many European countries, All Hallows day and the day after is a grave visiting holiday. It's a major thing in our country and people migrate from far and wide to visit the graves of their loved ones, since it is also a common practice to want to be buried in ones home town, even when living elsewhere. The graves visited have glass candle holders on them, fake flowers, wreaths, the "open" graves are tilled and weeded, the signs maintained. The abandoned graves don't have anything. The city maintains the land around the graves but not the graves themselves - i.e. if a headstone falls down they won't pick it up, they won't remove old decorations or maintain the graves in any way.

So there are many graves that have most likely not been visited in years, and many that maybe have visitors, but they live far away and don't visit every year and don't maintain the graves. You can see where this is going.

I want to till and plant the abandoned open graves. Most of the graves grow are in the shade of the trees but many are in full sun. The city provides free water on the cemetery so there's no issue with watering. I have already started my research, and I want to focus on plants that are going to look their best around All Hallows, so the visitors of other graves may admire them. I can go to cemetery almost daily for at least another year (my kids nap time), but my plan for later is perennials and mulching.

Maybe someone will take it as invasion of their privacy. I would be more offended by invasion grass and moss on the grave of a loved one. I have already ordered the seeds and I am loading up the stroller with hand tools. The tilling starts today. Wish me luck!

My balcony of my apartment is facing a kind of typical Amsterdam courtyard. One of the neighbours has a shed/storage of which the roof is covered by a metallic material. It is rusty and looks horrible.

I do not have access to the roof but I can easily throw something from balcony.

Is there a way to cover this with plants?

It is very common to cover those roofs with sedum but I am not sure if I can do it in guerrilla way.

I am hoping to get some advices.

I’m constantly finding invasive plants and wanting to rip them out and dispose of them, but I know for some plants this can actually increase their production and spread them further in the environment.

What are some invasive plants that can be removed (in zone 6, northwestern missouri) without spreading spores/seeds? And should I replant a native species in their place to prevent invasives from coming back?

I want to do what I can to get rid of invasives in my community, but I’m so scared to remove them in public places lest they return with a vengeance!

Appreciate any help.

I understand planting seeds or plants in unmaintained areas. Obviously you need some sort of access to the site, legal or not.

Are most areas of interest just fenced off? From the areas I think could need guerrilla gardening mostly need removal of invasive plants for anything to possibly work out.

So maybe there’s some explanation needed. Where are seed bombs going? How successful are they, really?

I had the idea to seed bomb my city, starting with this big grassy field that some developer never does anything about. It’s super lush though and covered with grasses and your average east coast USA invasives like dandelions etc. Would the seeds even be able to take root with competition like that? Or should I focus on seed bombing places that are less green?

spotted several callery pear trees in full cummy bloom in the lot behind the community garden. how would I go about quietly nuking said trees without dragging out a chainsaw in a residential zone?

Long story short: I have a few apple tree seedlings, but no yard to put them in. Looking for recommendations on places I can plant them where they won’t become a nuisance/won’t be insta-mowed by the city.

I speak for myself but i hope that you agree.

There are two definitions. One is the idea of being contrary to the laws and customs of society. We are chaotic and do not recognize ownership when we see neglect and take things into our own hands ignoring irrational boundaries to grow food or native plants. We reject the status quo and seek to find sustainability on our own terms. Guerrilla Gardening is Anti Social.

Guerrilla Gardening is not anti social. We are sociable and wanting the company of others. We want to share our passion for stewarding the land with our friends and neighbors. We want to raise awareness about the ecological disasters we're living through and build collective ownership of the land that we live on in an effort to turn those tides. We want to live in a literal garden of eden wrought by our own hands. Guerrilla Gardening is highly social and should be a tool to connect our communities where we are in the real world.

Hey y'all!!

I'm throwing an earth day party and want to do some guerilla gardening activities. I'm thinking just a bunch of seed and some shakers for folks to fill and take on their journeys.

However, I'm on a budget. What's the best and cheapest way to hook this up for my community? Like, is bird seed an option? Just want to brighten our spaces, feed our pollinators, and hopefully help people feel closer to mama earth.

Much love and appreciation!! 💚

Preferable only seeds I can throw