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Fablevision Studios’ video on Glasgow’s urban gardens highlights what can be done to render the unsightly eye-catching. All of the projects featured are designed to serve as stop-gap solutions until such time as the spaces they occupy are reallocated for some other function – be it housing or commercial development.
As the participants explain, there is plenty of interest and enthusiasm in the city, especially, but not exclusively, among intrepid gardeners and horticulturalists. Indeed, many schemes are receiving support from within their communities, from charities, housing associations, Glasgow City Council’s Greenspace Team and from the Scottish Parliament, through the Climate Challenge Fund, which is run under the auspices of Roseanna Cunningham MSP, Minister for Environment and Climate Change.
The three gardens featured, Shettleston Community Growing Project [SCGP], Greyfriars Garden Society and The Back Garden, show how rubble and rubbish-strewn derelict land can be turned into a valuable resource and community amenity. What’s more, these seemingly small-scale endeavours are also proving to be exemplars of good environmental practice, social enterprise and a major educational benefit to local schoolchildren.
Is there any blighted waste ground in your area which would make a perfect garden? Could your area benefit from a dear green place?