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Four years on, surrounded by my first guerrilla garden at Perronet House, London © James Emmet

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A badly turfed roundabout in London’s Elephant & Castle district provides an opportunity for guerrilla gardening

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Sunflowers (the Russian Giant cultivar) bloom triumphantly in neglected rose beds opposite the Houses of Parliament

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Liz Christy enjoying her first guerrilla garden, on the corner of Bowery and Houston streets, New York, in the late 1970s © Donald Loggins

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The Clinton Community Garden in New York’s Hell’s Kitchen was a heavenly setting for Independence Day celebrations in 2001 © Dallas Francis

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London’s guerrilla gardeners have transformed this traffic island in Westminster Bridge Road into an illicit landmark of tulips flowering among lavender

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Helen 1106 sheltered a tender young groundsel that had chosen a perilous pavement in Whitechapel, east London, to be its home © Helen Nodding

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Maria 888’s cannabis flourishes in a civic planter in Tübingen, Germany © Hans Hanfstengle

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Luc 158’s award-winning guerrilla garden on the pavement of Sherbrooke East, Montreal

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The Toronto Public Space Committee planted French marigold in Nassau Street

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Purple 321 surveys the Garden of Eden, his incredible 15,000 square-foot creation from behind 184 Forsyth Street, New York City, in 1983. Two years later it was destroyed by the city authorities © Steven C. Wilson

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Los Angeles guerrilla gardeners © Scott Bunnell

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Rosie 1485 and guerrillas, Vauxhall, London

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The guerrilla gardening youth of Perronet House, London

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Julia 013, Berlin

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SoCalGuerrillaGardening.org

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Brussels guerrilla gardeners Andrea 3534 and Milanese guerrillas © Daniele Del Castillo

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Margaret 2878 and churchyard guerrillas, Torre, Devon

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Ced 144, Huby, Yorkshire © Cedric Frost