positive publicity

[Nisaba]

Hey, folks!

We want EVERYONE to know about and support guerilla gardening, don't we?

Today I got an email from a girl at Channel Nine who's researching guerilla gardening and seems to have a friendly and supportive take on it, asking me if I'd like to have a camera crew hanging around whilst I'm at work.

Now, my normal vanity screams YES YES YES at me, but for two things: without a car it is very hard for me to cart tools and multiple potted plants around so what I do is limited to seed-scattering and isn't very visually interesting, also I'm outside of Sydney proper and she's interested in the Sydney scene.

She's not interested in exchanging emails forever, she's interested in a filming opportunity as soon as possible. So if anyone's interested in some real gardening, even if you want to be anonymous maybe you could ask her to black out faces or something, be a good chance to get your own points of view and your own values across to the wider public and maybe get some more action happening.

The address she emailed me from today was Cbugelly@nine.com.au - get onto her!

[Dirty Digger]

Never trust a TV person.

Could just end up being a story about vandals chucked in with their latest expose on vandal graffiti artists on Current Affair.

[tommo]

I just saw an ad for a show called Guerrilla Growing on Channel 10.  Which is why I'm here right now lol
It said something about how cops are after them.
I thought "don't tell me they made a show about busting Guerrilla weed Growers...."
I decided to Google it because I didn't think that could be it.

So yeah, basically I don't think it will be about vandals (as dirty digger suggested) if they do a show, this one seemed to be praising them.
Although it is channel 9 so I dunno.  Good luck anyway, I'm in Melbourne so sorry I can't help but best of luck.

[Dirty Digger]

The Ch 10 story may well be positive which in commercial TV land is all the more reason for another channel to put the boot in, kind of a speciality for 9.

Cynical I know, but I guess that's what you get from working in TV too long.

Lets hope for the best.

[blackcocky6980]

I agree with dirty digger -channel 9 is the tv station that is making australia look more and more like idiocracy!  i wouldn't trust them as far as I could throw a seed bomb, actually a lot less than that! keep GG underground and especially away from the likes of ch9...cheers

[Kiashu]

Alright, who was the vain, publicity-hungry bloody idiot who agreed to have the telly crew along with them?

Now the cops and councils will keep their eyes open for us. Drongo.

[jane citizen]

That show is how/why i googled and found this site.  worlds apart but i watched it anyways with my partner who thought the furniture and planter boxes were made really cheaply and would probably cost the council to clean up when it is wrecked, cynical but possibly true. 
Anyway most of us are not doing it like that thankfully.
I have guerilla gardened once about 8 years ago in NOrthcote, i was basically bored and had lots of calendula seedlings which had grown themselves as they do in yellow and orange so i took them down the street to the small childrens playground as i thought bright flowers would be Noice. 
I watered them once or twice but basically left them to themselves.
a year later there were none.  odd since calendula will sprout again from their seed.
i can only guess that i was incredibly unlucky or the council gardeners poison around the exotic bushes so as to avoid weeding labour.

[Yorkie]

I watched the program and was horrified. It was so different from the quiet, non-invasive stuff that I do. All I do is stick my spare seedlings somewhere on public land where they stand a chance. Oh, and I plant flowers round a council tree in front of my house.

The little plot the telly GGs did  turned out very nice, but it was way too clever and complicated for me/