(The) apple trees and rosebushes

Hi all,

I would really appreciate your help here.

1. Our house had a large garden, where I enjoyed walking amid apple trees and rosebushes.

2. Our house had a large garden, where I enjoyed walking amid the apple trees and rosebushes.

Is either sentence right? I am mentioning these apple trees and rosebushes for the first time.

On the one hand, a garden is expected to have trees/greenery, but not necessarily apple trees and rosebushes, so only #1 is correct (no article - mentioned for the first time).

On the other hand, because a garden is expected to have trees, I think it's obvious that in this context some of this greenery was apple trees and rosebushes, so #2 seems also correct - the apple trees and rosebushes that were in that garden.

I prefer #1 (no article) but for the record...I am reading this novel, there is a sentence: "walked out in the garden and strolled under the oak trees", which justifies my #2 explication.

Anyway, I would HUGELY appreciate your explications!

Maria