Brilliant whether you like to garden or not - Rated 
The thing I loved about this book was that you don't need to be a keen gardener to love or be interested in what it's all about.
An interest in making our surroundings a better place is all you need. Which helps give the lover of urban landscapes by providing an in-road into making their environment a better place - and appreciating how that has been achieved by others.
It's as inspirational a book as the reader wants it to be.
Great fun! - Rated
This book is a great read and shows how anyone can become a guerrilla gardener, with lot of easy tips and ideas. The pictures are really lovely. Very inspiring!
On guerilla's AND gardening - Rated
Richard Reynolds has produced a delightful handbook for and about committed gardeners around the world who `fight filth with flowers' to transform `orphaned' public land into community space. It is a beautifully conceived book and it is no surprise it took two years to draw together the wonderfully humorous yet deadly serious stories of those around the world who have taken up the mantle of guerrilla gardening. The book derives tools for this trade from more easily recognisable guerrillas such as Che Guevara and Mao. Though not condoning any particular politics, Reynolds uses the examples of history to tease out what tools have been used and are open to those guerrilla gardeners fighting their own `little wars' against misused land around the world. The book is spiced up with stories of the many guerrilla gardeners he has encountered and are engaging, humorous, fascinating and inspiring. They are not big stories in themselves, but rather it is the collective efforts of the many that creates the dramatic effect, and ultimately political movement, that is now termed guerrilla gardening.
The book is more than just a documentation of what has already gone on, it is in itself a productive force that will no doubt alter the landscape by its publication. It is a book that will help to legitimate the democratisation of land at a much more local and individual scale than is true of most of the famous political `guerrillas' he draws insight from.
This is much more than a book about guerrilla gardening and will be of interest to geographers, political scientists, and students of planning and landscape. It is a treatise on the use and misuse of space that challenges the reader to think about how spaces are conceived, used, abused and also how the legal ownership and use of that land is not as fixed as it may appear. Gardening in this book is more than planting; it is a tool for the democratisation of space.
Inspiring.. - Rated
I love this book.. It is a great read, inspiring stories of Richards experiences, as well as the experiences of the many other Guerrilla Gardeners there are around the world. I have also found the tips very interesting, as although this is something that I have taken part in, the concept of doing it on my own has always been a bit daunting. Hopefully with the help of this book I shall be out on my own soon!
This book is a wonderful insight into what drives people to undertake Guerilla gardening, the history of the concept and what is possible.
A 'ground breaking' read - Rated
I'd buy this book for the cover alone - an iconic flower-and-towerblock print that takes me back to those non-fiction gems found, without dust jacket, at the town library 20 years ago.
If you do fancy reading the contents too, you'll see that this is also a fantastically enjoyable, highly readable, beautifully illustrated and surprisingly intelligent first outing, by someone I think we'll all be seeing a lot more of in the next few years.
Reynolds is a self-styled 'Guerrilla Gardener'. He digs, weeds and replants unloved public spaces in South London, at night. Anyone who has followed his short but intriguing media career will have noticed that he manages to do this surrounded by an unfeasibly glamourous 'posse' of young Londoners who, it appears, self-select based on good looks, edgy postcodes and highly fashionable ecological credentials. This is not one of those dreadlocked new agers digging up Parliament square and giving Winston a Mohican - more of a well spoken Jamie Oliver of the flowerbeds.
Given all that I'd seen in the newspapers I'd expected a lighthearted, very London (in the Banksy sense of the word) but ultimately feather-light stocking filler. Instead I was surprised to find a thoughtfully written and well referenced book that is one third horticulture, one third social history and one third urban geography. Throughout there are also tracts of effortlessly funny writing. I think it's a charming read and worth a place on any serious gardener's (or urban geographer's) bookshelf.
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