They are places of community activity and solace in an urban landscape of concrete and cars.
Now the people - often volunteers - who look after the city's greenspaces are building closer links to better protect these human and wildlife havens.
The move comes amid pressures on resources for many small organisations that manage and safeguard community woods, meadows and gardens.
Watch: RSPB greenspace officer Paul Gunn hosted the recent networking event.
Richard Bolton, a woodlands officer employed to manage the hugely successful Castlemilk Woods, said funding was still not secured to plan this year's events.
While confident money would be forthcoming he told a networking event at Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum that the situation was far from ideal.
"We still don't know what our programme of events is going to be this year because we are still waiting on confirmation of our funding," he said.
The event was hosted by the conservation group RSPB Scotland which has been working with a number of partner organisations across the city in recent years.
Paul Gunn, community greenspace officer, said greenspaces were vital to the health and wellbeing of the city.
"Greenspaces are important for a whole range of reasons; from a biodiversity point of view and from a public health point of view - getting people outside, and enjoying nature from a mental health aspect.
"But from our perspective, these small pockets of greenspace are biodiversity hotspots in a huge urban environment.
"So the more we can do to improve them, the better."
The Kelvingrove workshop brainstormed ways that community and conservation groups can work closer together.
Guest speakers shared their experiences of community activity and success.
Emily Cutts from North Kelvin Meadow & the Childrens Wood, told how the North Kelvinside campaign had overcome "fatalism" within some quarters that development was inevitable.
Just before Christmas, the campaign heard it had been successful in warding off plans to build 90 homes on the open land off Clouston Street, she told the meeting.
Other speakers included Scott Shanks from Buglife & Sarah-Jayne Forster, from RSPB Scotland, who outlined work to protect the city's declining population of house sparrows.
