Deronis Cooper's garden at his Garfield Park home is so lush and beautiful, it literally stops traffic. But it also helps his mental health as a Chicago police officer.
Leah HopeDeronis Cooper's garden at his Garfield Park home is so lush and beautiful, it literally stops traffic. But it also helps his mental health as a Chicago police officer.The corner lot at Jackson and Christiana is lined with enormous elephant ears, banana leaf trees and prolific coleus. Sweet potato vines cascade out and down.
And duplicate he did. Over the last 16 years he has hand-watered thousands of plants in his yard. He calls himself "Grandma's Gardener," as he was by his grandmother's side, tending to her garden as a teen. "You can be having a bad day but you can go into a garden and look around at the beauty and the growoth," said Juline McClinton, Austin resident and member of the Austin Green Team. "It's just mind-soothing, it does something to you."
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