Disclaimer – Hunith is not mine; neither is the series that she lives in.
She remembered when, while he courted her, she had expressed an admiration towards a neighbor's garden. It was a lovely thing, full of daisies and honeysuckle. He had looked at it. The next day he disappeared without a word. Two weeks later he returned with strange seeds. That day had been twenty years ago.
"Hunith! Why does your garden grow so well?"
She smiled. Love made her garden and love made it grow.
Her smile turned sad. Love had left her nineteen years ago, left her alone with a pregnancy, fear for her wayward Dragonlord, and a garden of snapdragons.