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Brentwood Gardens boasts “patio style apartments,” but the patio is a 46-inch wide slab. Many residents have used small areas of land in front of their apartments for their small gardens. (Courtesy of Catherine Gleason)
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. Emma Rael-Lopez’s irises are in full bloom now, a bright riot of purple and yellow amid the ashen moonscape of gravel and rock spread across the property at the ironically named Brentwood Gardens Apartments.
“I’ve lived here for eight years, and when I first moved in, my neighbor planted those irises for me as a welcoming gift,” she said. “They bloom every year, but my neighbor died.”