We’ve been robbed! The hottest day of the year so far and stupidly I decided that planting would be a good idea - I'm not thinking clearly at the moment obviously. It gave me the opportunity to try out my new trolley, and I am very happy with it. Luckily my trip to the garden is downhill all the way so lugging the water was not too bad.

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Hottest day of the year

An Unusual Find We worked really hard today, So was fired up to tackle the heap of dumped waste in the middle of Meanwhile 2. We also had two extra helpers - Jason from Rubbish Walks and Ro a new Guerrilla Gardener. This is a sample of what we faced, a complete jumble of plastic, brick, wood, weed supressing membrain and even christmas decorations.

A grey afternoon, the sun never did arrive to drive the misty cold away, but we were busy and kept ourselves warm with work, we know how to have fun. #ipswich #suffolk #guerrillagarden #popupgarden #meanwhilegarden #spring

A tiny bird made us happy! Today we worked without coats for the first time this year and the sun shone on us as we worked. There was a dispiriting amount of garbage to pick up, but once that was done it was done and we could move onto more enjoyable things. I took the time to walk around the site to find something beautiful, and I was not disappointed.

Gardening with the sunshine on your back after a long wet winter, what could be better?
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Learning a new skill Looks like there was a pizza party on Meanwhile 1 this week, lots of boxes for us to deal with. But once we had dealt with the rubbish we continued with our buddliea pruning. We bundled the prunings we hadn't dealt with last week - and this is where we learned a new skill. I had been shown how to tie a parcel knot, which the more you pull it the tighter it pulls and then it does not slip open - perfect for bundles of clippings.

The work in the garden continues. #garden #meanwhilegarden #ipswich #suffolk #uk #guerrillagarden

Armed and dangerous Today we arrived, sharp tools to the ready, with a mission. It is February, it is time to prune buddleias. These are all self-sown and have never been pruned, so they were very overgrown. These are the two we started with, we tidied them up last summer so that they formed an arch, so with saws, loppers and secateurs we got started.

February sunshine and a garden to look after - what could be better?
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An extra pair of hands makes all the difference Yesterday Storm Chandra hurled herself across the country and it rained all day. The eastern part of the country suffered less than the west; today was bright and sunny and cold. Ja from Rubbish Walks was helping us again. First we clear the ground of dead organic material. It does not look too bad but pull away the curtain and the horror is revealed…

A very cold morning but picking up rubbish warms you up nicely.
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Long narrow landscape format sketchbook page. Background coloured in pink and salmon pink with blotches of dark raspberry colour. These blotches have been treated as though they were the centres of flowers inasmuch as they have yellow dots in the centre and magenta petals drawn around them.

The last day of 2025 we spent the morning in the #meanwhilegarden.
'There can be no other occupation like gardening in which, if you were to creep behind someone at their work, you would find them smiling'
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2026 – Things can only get better? Only seven days into the new year and WW3 looks like it is on the horizon. Bleak thoughts to go with the bleak weather we have had in the UK this past few days. We have had heavy frosts and some sn…

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An image of a clump of dark pink cyclamen flowers. Three variegated leaves below. All growing in a patch of overgrown undergrowth

Quietly flowering in our #MeanwhileGarden they gave me great pleasure #flowersonfriday

The last day of 2025 A very cold day but bright and sunny and what better way to see the year out than by making plans for the spring. Someone might be worried as we found a set of keys on Meanwhile 1 but we placed them in a prominent place and hope they will be found. Onto Meanwhile 2, we decided what area we would tackle and started by cutting back the dead stalks and foliage - due to the work we did last week we were able to pack it straight into the teepee.

On the last day of the year I was happy to be in our #meanwhilegarden but was thinking about the coming year. 2026 does not really fill my heart with hope - dread more like.

Now we are getting somewhere Four of us working in the garden - two painting and two creating a flower bed. The weather was lovely but there was a storm forecast for the next day. How lovely does the name look? We are so happy with it. The paint was mostly recycled which pleased us. At the other side of the garden a flower bed was emerging - we even wrestled some bulbs into the ground.

So happy with the way our garden is improving #ipswich #suffolk #uk
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A rectangular piece of paper with the word STENCIL outlined in large letters. The background is filled with blended yellow, orange, and green watercolour splashes.

Today the charity shop yielded the treasure of a set of stencils. I tried them out here and I think they might be useful in the Meanwhile Garden. One pound well spent


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