The garden left to someone else should come with the knowledge that kept it alive.

Handing over a garden means handing over decisions that took years to learn: which plant sulks in that corner, when the frost arrives, what needs water in August, what looks dead in March and is not. Without those, the new person starts from nothing on ground that already has a history, and things get lost that nobody meant to lose.

Write it down roughly before you go: a sketch, a few notes, the names you know. Walk the beds together once. Say which things you would forgive them for pulling out.