Four years on, surrounded by my first guerrilla garden at Perronet House, London © James Emmet
A badly turfed roundabout in London’s Elephant & Castle district provides an opportunity for guerrilla gardening
Sunflowers (the Russian Giant cultivar) bloom triumphantly in neglected rose beds opposite the Houses of Parliament
Liz Christy enjoying her first guerrilla garden, on the corner of Bowery and Houston streets, New York, in the late 1970s © Donald Loggins
The Clinton Community Garden in New York’s Hell’s Kitchen was a heavenly setting for Independence Day celebrations in 2001 © Dallas Francis
London’s guerrilla gardeners have transformed this traffic island in Westminster Bridge Road into an illicit landmark of tulips flowering among lavender
Helen 1106 sheltered a tender young groundsel that had chosen a perilous pavement in Whitechapel, east London, to be its home © Helen Nodding
Maria 888’s cannabis flourishes in a civic planter in Tübingen, Germany © Hans Hanfstengle
Luc 158’s award-winning guerrilla garden on the pavement of Sherbrooke East, Montreal
The Toronto Public Space Committee planted French marigold in Nassau Street
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
Los Angeles guerrilla gardeners © Scott Bunnell
Rosie 1485 and guerrillas, Vauxhall, London
The guerrilla gardening youth of Perronet House, London
Julia 013, Berlin
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Brussels guerrilla gardeners Andrea 3534 and Milanese guerrillas © Daniele Del Castillo
Margaret 2878 and churchyard guerrillas, Torre, Devon
Ced 144, Huby, Yorkshire © Cedric Frost