Brenda Dyck went rogue for the first time about 40 years ago.

She remembers how she grabbed her gardening tools, marched into a grassy field beyond her rental home, dug a small hole in the ground and planted her first apple tree.

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Laura Taylor, an urban planning professor at York University in Toronto, says the term was coined in the 1970s in Brooklyn, N.Y.

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Some zoning bylaws, which regulate how a property can be developed, used and maintained, may get rogue gardeners in trouble with the law.

Dyck agrees guerrilla gardening is difficult to track.

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She says several gentle rebels who don香蕉视频直播檛 own land and can香蕉视频直播檛 afford groceries but have an itch for gardeninghave asked her for her seeds.

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Dyck says she has never got into trouble.

The closest she got was when she went rogue that first time. After the apple tree expanded into a full-blown garden, some growing pots that Dyck had made out of old, broken household items including a vintage radio caught her landlord香蕉视频直播檚 attention.

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Neighbours who watched her garden grow over the years also appreciated the seeds and fruits she gave out.

Megan Lewchuk, a horticulture technician in Alberta, says she learned about guerrilla gardening last year from a colleague who plants in areas owned by the City of Edmonton.

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Eric Boyd, a Toronto-based semi-retired investor, says he guerrilla gardens to beautify places around his city with like-minded people.

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