Guerrilla gardeners take root
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Guerrilla gardener Scott stops to look over the garden he began planting 10 years ago in a median space in Long Beach. Though residents and city officials admire his work, he remains anonymous, weeding and cultivating on a regular basis in the early morning.
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A member of a burgeoning movement of green enthusiasts who plant without approval on land thats not theirs, Scott has transplanted succulents from his own home garden in a median strip in Long Beach.
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Scott has turned the patch of dirt along Loynes Drive into a colorful garden viewed daily by drivers along the busy Long Beach median.
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A succulent glows in the morning light on the median on Loynes Drive.
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The guerrilla garden on the median strip of Loynes Drive is reflected in the sunglasses of the mysterious keeper of the succulents and flowers, who identifies himself as Scott.
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Scott admires some of his plantings.
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