Gardens can be full of sentiment, so it's not silly at all. When you start to garden for yourself you will add plants that are special to you and carry meaning. You may add plants that you think your wife would have liked or that remind you of her in some way and it will become 'your' garden too.
I grow plants I don't much like that were gifts from friends or family; plants that remind me of special times or places - a rose from my childhood, a tiny snowbell like the one I found peeping through melting snow at the top of an alpine pass in Switzerland, even plants that have the names of special people.
Some plants are old friends and utterly reliable, like my Daphne that greets every spring with fresh green leaves and fragrant flowers, or Erysimum Bowle's Mauve that flowers all summer long and is a magnet for bees and butterflies. Others are new acquaintances, exciting, but have they got what it takes to become old friends?
And some are just miracles to be marvelled at, like magnolia flowers and snowdrops. And there are even plants that I regard with disapproval and may well remove altogether!
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You'll soon be digging up and chopping up stuff like a demon
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...