Indeed.
Until the craven neighbors murdered my black rat snakes, I had a lot of them, too.
The garters loiter around the Koi pond, thereby avoiding the resident Ophidiophobics.
Snakes are very useful creatures most of the time. IIRC, Florida is having some problems with some non-indigenous snakes that were apparently released there. That is not a good thing.
I’m always happy to see our garter/indigenous snakes here, because they eat slugs, leeches, lizards, ants, and rodents. They’re also the state snake of Massachusetts.