A group of renegade City of Bayswater green thumbs could see their radical work become legal when the council considers officially allowing people to plant food gardens in local parks.

The biggest example of Bayswater's guerrilla gardening movement is on Rose Avenue, where resident Greg Smith galvanised a handful of neighbours in 2004 to plant out a barren patch of ground.

The garden has transformed the area. Credit:Google

Fast forward 14 years and the result is a thriving patch of greenery including garlic, parsley, capsicums, orange, lemon and quince trees, a bay leaf tree and London plane trees.

It's directly opposite the train station but is discreetly placed behind a tiny patch of bush, with the result that the hundreds passing by from the station each day likely have no idea it's there.