Naming a Range of Files

I was wondering if there is a quick way to name a range of files. I have many photos of my garden, for example, all with different names. Is there a way to choose a range of these, and name them all Garden1, Garden2, etc?
Thanks for any help.

Move them all into the frontmost Finder window and run the following from the AppleScript Editor in the /Applications/Utilities/ folder:
tell application "Finder"
set the_files to count files of window 1
repeat with this_number from 1 to the_files
set name of file this_number of window 1 to "Garden" & this_number
end repeat
end tell
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