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He had acres of farmland and patches of snapdragons.īut no canopy of shade yet, after six months. Their childhoods are so different from his.
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He stands in his garden and gazes at the point just above the second story windows of the apartment complex next door, from where his impoverished neighbors’ children will be able to bask in the foliage close enough and full enough, perhaps, to touch. He does envision the canopy of shade that will envelop this little cottage in five years, when his Cunningham King Palms have matured beyond the roof line and the canna lilies have shot up to provide a backdrop for the rose bushes that are acclimating nicely.
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He’s always moved on, from the massive rural Maryland estate that fed his love for gardening to the cities of the mid-Atlantic where he was free to be gay, to San Diego, where he has struggled with bipolar disorder and in the last six months exhausted his life savings to resuscitate a house once without hope. Since when do butterflies land in City Heights?īut Luigi doesn’t plan on staying forever. New owners wouldn’t likely ask him to leave. He said a change in ownership shouldn’t endanger Luigi’s ability to live there. “You can say that in your story if you want,” Perry said. I asked if the months of day-and-night labor Luigi had put into beautifying the house and its garden might have made it more desirable on the market and encouraged him to try again. He last tried to sell it about two years ago, to no avail. When I reached him by phone, Tom Perry, the owner of the City Heights property where Luigi Cannoni has spent the last six months restoring a trashed and rotting cottage into a botanical oasis in one of the city’s poorest neighborhoods, confirmed that he put the property up for sale six weeks ago.
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