After renting for years, Carly had finally saved enough to buy a quaint little three-bedroom cottage. The house was in good order but the front garden, which comprised a neglected rockery and an untidy patch of lawn, needed work.
She bought a mower and cut the grass. She also bought some garden tools but, knowing little about plants, she put the rockery on her to-do list.
The cottage was in the middle of a row of