La Mesa resident's love of whimsy and color shapes low-water landscape into an award-winning, old-fashioned charmer in Helix Water District
Just a block away from La Mesa’s downtown is a residential street lined with sweet vintage Craftsman and Spanish-style homes. Most have lawns in their front yards, but there are some unique gardens that show off the owners’ distinctive style. One of them belongs to Joy Andrea, a petite, retired phys ed teacher who spent her career at Sweetwater Union High School District. Andrea has lived on the street since the late 1960s, originally in an apartment.
Andrea planted roses, a New Zealand tea tree and a crepe myrtle. She also carved out a little area that holds a grouping of different sized rocks and boulders surrounding a fountain filled with green glass rocks, and over which a stone rabbit hovers. At the front, near the sidewalk, a tall rock pedestal holds a statue of the Virgin Mary. “I designed the rock sculpture that supports a beautiful statue of the Virgin Mary,” Andrea said. “She is surrounded by roses and is the focus of the garden.
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