Guerrilla Gardening SWAT Team Strikes!

we don't give ourselves enough credit. here's another example of the high level of civic engagement and pitch-in spirit in buffalo. you go, gardeners!

One idea.. how about the "Welcome to Buffalo" singage visible to the right before the first overpass while heading north bound on the I-190 into Buffalo. Home of Olmsted park system is on this signage as well; let's just say the landscaping around this sign does not do this designation justice.

Well, once again I try to see a bigger picture.

I applaud the gardeners but I see a different focus.

Somehow I look at Canalside and I immediately want to know how the Waterfront Village and LaSalle Park can be connected.

Somehow I look at Canalside and I immediately want to know how the DL&W/Cobblestone districts can be connected.

Somehow I look at Canalside and I immediately think about Niagara Street as being the gateway entrance from the Peace Bridge to downtown.

Trees and plants from the Gardeners can set the stage for a master plan to connect these areas.

One last suggestion for BuffaloRising technology buffs: Replacing those high arch thruway lights is something everyone agrees as beneficial for the community but now recent cost studies have shown that LED lighting results in a net cost savings significant enough for cities to replace their urban lighting.

Technology buffs would be wise to use LED cost savings to replace their community lighting with lighting that will add value to their properties.

I love this movement, too. I do remember the illustrious Phantom Gardeners in the '80's who would go deep into the West Side (before it was chic) at 11pm and plant the heck out of a corner (in the dark). Out of curiousity, how "Guerrilla" can one be at 9am?

Still LOVE the idea of green anarchy.

The Japanese Gardens and the Garden Tours are in the Buffalo News. It seems a number of major national print media are doing stories on our city. Particularly the Japanese Gardens.

While I am greatful for the Garden Tours, the Guerilla Gardeners and the Japanese Garden...it does raise the question of the historical gardens once present at Humboldt or King's Park and at South Park where the Lake and Botanical Gardens are located.

It seems a lost opportunity to keep postponing the restoration of both Olmsted Parks...especially when we are getting so much recognition.

Color me "Enthusiastic" only after seeing what's left of these planting attempts when 3 or 4 years have passed. Most are dead by that time. Let's see some late-night watering and fertilizing 'raids', along with educating the beloved public with info about why trees and greenery are good & should not be trampled and destroyed.

I see the "Guerrilla" quality of this effort being helpful in places where Unions have halted the maintenance of our civic spaces. Volunteers ranging from the Botanical Gardens to The Boy Scouts of America have been kept from maintaining the front of the Rath Building downtown because of Union issues. I think this would be a terrific "Guerrilla" endeavor late on a Sunday evening...

How does one donate to this orginization given the fact they want to remain anonymous? I may have two beautiful Arborvitaes to donate if I can find a way to contact them. TY