Large dirt lot across from a school.
This is a great little piece of desert. Watch out for hords of Muggles from the school kiddies M-F 7:30 to 9:30 a.m. and 2:00-4:15 p.m., except summers. Otherwise, things are very quiet. It's is illegal to mess with the Joshua Trees (and they hurt), so you won't need to touch them.
[She has planted . . . in the holes where the wood was rotten. It grows thick, it bulges . . . Now the stump sinks downward . . . with a cargo of rain . . .]