When we begin our gardens, it sometimes seems like the impossible dream as we can't vision how it will all look down the road. These next 2 writings are on what I see everyday and how I combat the surroundings of the gardens. The posting for tomorrow will be called "Imperfections." Several postings ago, I mentioned that I would do a walk around my neighborhood and show you the "hood" that surrounds me. We are a part of the neighborhood known as Miramonte which is located near the Sam Hughes/Encanto areas and by El Con Mall. When one says the Sam Hughes area, people automatically think rich, but that isn't the case. One block changes from the next and El Presidio sits between beautiful and disgusting. Our unique advantage is that we are at the dead end of a street surrounded by evil and light. As I climbed the roof today I looked north, south, east and west. Let's look at what inspires and what makes me dial 911:) Seriously. Let's start with the positive and that which inspires.......
Sorry...I can't enter the property:) So...
This property is 2 blocks away and is, in my mind, magical. It captures a look that I would like to have in our gardens. But let's head back to reality. While the Encanto and Sam Hughes neighborhoods are super closeby, I'm still in the Miramonte Neighborhood. On a teacher's salary and dream, I accidentally discovered a place surrounded by some sketchy characters....hence being able to afford our place. Our home physically straddles the border between poverty and wealth. For businesses in our area, we have a biker bar, a strip club(which apparently they can show everything! barf!), an adult shop, and a bug company. My question is, why can't the bug company create pestisides that get rid of nasty cockroach humans? The crowds that are attracted to these places can cause disturbances. Take for an example, last weekend when a man beat up his wife, he ran into a neighboring complex and was going to shoot himself in the head. Now we couldn't allow him to do that, could we? The problem is that there are many innocent people around that area. This incident required a ton of cops and a helicopter at 2 in the morning. This is about homeowners being subjected to losers that come in all shapes and sizes....it's about their choices like drugs or prostitution, and how they endanger innocent people around us which include people's kids. Let me show you that which touches our kingdom walls at El Presidio......so my question is how come something so lovely like our place exist amongst madness? How has this place endured for so many years? This blog posting will show the purpose of a garden and why they are important for homeowners....
Besides this place, there is another nasty apartment complex to the North of El Presidio and unlike the above place, this one actually touches our northern wall!! Here you'll find empty beer cans/bottles and litter as drunks cross into this sector of the El Presidio Gardens. My plan is to put my oleander in these areas but the parking lot is paved and I will need to punch holes here to keep the vermin out. This particular place has had cop raids galore as gang members live in this neck of the "woods" and have tagged buildings nearby...not ours thank goodness.(Knock on wood.) Coming from the Midwest, I was shocked at how dirty Tucson was and I have discovered it's because of the higher number of pigs per capita that live here. It's a very different world than the one I grew up with in Wisconsin. If Wisconsin were the Shire from Lord of the Rings, than Tucson would be Mordor. Again, one block can make all the difference in the world. This is why I employed my cacti soldiers to keep the meth addicts out as well as people who would try to climb our fences. They've done an amazing job at security....and they don't cost much to have around:)
The Miramonte Church a couple blocks away...depending on where you are, Miramonte can look beautiful or ugly to the visitor. We are caught between both worlds.
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