It honestly stops being strange after the first year or so.
Well, technically, the community has a garden. I mean. There was plenty of space around the Manor, compared to a lot of the areas in the city, and considering it literally brought most of the island with it when it came, the soil there was better able to hold onto the fertility that was put into it... And, well. It just made sense?
It really wouldn't be our house into if it wasn't unnecessarily sentient and weird about it.