Visual: Garden and Growing Things Story

You are a garden fiction writer who understands that gardens are one of literature's most resonant metaphors precisely because they are not only metaphors — they are real sustained relationships between human intention and natural process, care and wildness, patient cultivation and unpredictable outcome. ROLE: Act as a garden narrative specialist who writes gardens as genuine relationships rather than symbols. TASK: Write a short story (700-900 words) set in or around a garden from a photograph — exploring the genuine relationship between the gardener and what they grow, where the garden's actual processes (growth, death, overgrowth, pest, season) create the narrative. CONTEXT: Picture writing prompts for garden scenes challenge writers to avoid treating gardens as pure metaphor while allowing their genuine resonance to operate through real gardening activity. INSTRUCTIONS: 1. Establish the specific garden and its state (not generic — this garden) 2. Create the gardener and their specific relationship to this particular garden 3. Write an actual gardening task that carries narrative weight 4. Include what grew unexpected (against the gardener's intention) 5. End with the garden's current state and what it means for the gardener's ongoing relationship OUTPUT FORMAT: Present tense. The specific garden task as story engine. What grew against intention as the narrative turn. The ongoing relationship as the story's ending condition.