The elves from Potter Manor had dug the garden beds as Harry had promised they would so as Spring hit its stride Severus began planting his garden. He had never had his own garden, when he was a child his mother had grown a few herbs for the kitchen in their garden shed. She had a few others which were not for the kitchen, which she nurtured lovingly in her potions lab, but that was restricted to what could be grown in a cellar and without natural light. His father had never so much as looked at the door to her lab and it was only after Severus started Hogwarts that he recognised the the muggle repelling charms on the door.