Edinburgh guerrilla gardeners celebrate six months

A group of guerrilla gardeners based in Midlothian are toasting six months of existence and can already point to the success of a number of different projects.

The Scotsman reports that the Edinburgh Community Gardening Activists´ latest project is a neglected patch of soil in Prestonpans which they have transformed into a thriving garden.

The group first came together to work on a piece of land known as ´The Banana´ because of its crescent shape, situated on Marchmont Crescent in Edinburgh´s old town.

Guerrilla gardener Lucy Ann Wiltshire told the newspaper: "You take a patch of land and transform it for the good of the community, for no other reward than making the place look nice.

"Some say that such work should be the responsibility of the owners but if it´s community land then we are the owners and we should look after it."

Earlier this month, the group experienced a setback when they were forced to vacate a piece of land they had turned into a garden by its owner Network Rail.

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