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When not in use for classes, several of the greenhouses that are located on the school grounds are open for private and independent research and study. In fact, this is highly encouraged.
Within the unlocked doors of the greenhouses you will find rows and rows of plants. The greenhouses contain a wide variety of plants - both magical and mundane. Want to practice your pruning skills? Why not practice on the Abyssinian Shrivelfig of a Flutterby Bush? Or perhaps you want to harvest some Puffapod seeds- just don’t drop them! -- unless you want to of course.
Unfortunately the stores cupboard is quite bare. Under normal circumstances a variety of resources would have been at your fingertips, but it seems as though the items have been sold and pawned off. There are no seeds, or dung or meat scraps here, and there is only a single pair of large dragon hide gloves on a dusty shelf. If you borrow it, remember to return it.
Remember Professor Bentley likes to take regular strolls through the greenhouse to check on things. So make sure you wear your protective gear and behave yourselves accordingly.
SPOILER!!: Greenhouse Index
1 - VARIOUS including: toadstools, bubotubers, mimbulous mimbletonia
2 - VARIOUS including: creeping ivy (Wasima), fire seed bushes, venomous tentacular, screechsnap, polypody
3 - VARIOUS (largely floral) including: flutterby bushes, puffapods, angels trumpets, umbrella flowers, bouncing bulbs, snarfalumps, wiggenbush
4 - VARIOUS including: fanged geranium, piranha plants, bloodroot, chinese chomping cabbage, mixed herbs
5 - VARIOUS - ARID including: various cacti and grasses 6 - VARIOUS - AQUATIC including: gillyweed, sea lavender, sea cucumbers and coral
7 - VARIOUS - TROPICAL including: cobra lilies, albany pitcher, venus flytraps, poke weed and fire vine
8 - VARIOUS - RESTRICTED ACCESS: includes various flesh-eaters and various dangerous plants including snargallufs, midnight magnolia, dragon trees and mature mandrakes
NOTE: This is not an exhaustive list, it's just to give you an idea of what can be found in each greenhouse. Greenhouse 8 is restricted, locked and enchanted and may only be accessed with Professor Bentley. Any attempt to post that your charrie has broken in, will result in your posts being deleted.
Olly glanced at her, a look of surprise laced with annoyance on her face. "Yeah?" She frowned. "I didn't expect it to be THIS bad." Like, hadn't the headmistress said something about how the school was better off now and stuff. Seriously what had been going on here last term then?! "Were you here last year too?" Hogwarts, not the greenhouses. Though both actually.
She smirked slowly, accompanied by a nod. "Adelaide." Yes, it was about time they knew each other's names somehow. "I'm Olly." Hi. After the girl's next words Olly considered the redhead for a moment, considering her options. Which weren't very promising. So... "Yeah. Maybe I could borrow some things." There, she even took a step closer, her eyes resting on the bag curiously.
Addi nodded. "I really didn't know what to expect." So basically she over prepared...which really wasn't over preparing once she saw the state of the supplies cupboard. She shook her head. "Nope. First year here." Hence the reason she was going above and beyond to get points any way possible.
Olly. Adelaide made a mental note, glad to have a name to go with a face finally. She gave Olly a warm smile. "I have a lot of stuff in here. Like I said." She began to pull supplies out, setting them on the table as she went. "Take whatever you'd like."
Tobias heard a very faint rattling coming from the boy, but though absolutely nothing of it. He was too busy thinking of a way to explain something to the boy who seemed rather put out at the prospect of not being able to work with dragon poo.
"Well," he said, getting up from the floor so he stood at his full height of 4'6" and tilting his head at the other boy with a smile. "Plants in the wild aren't always fertilised. It just sort of... boosts them I guess. A lot of plants just live on being watered and getting sunlight and getting nutrients that are already in the soil."
Which meeeeeeeant... uh... well, he didn't know.
"You can help me if you like! Even just like... showing them love and care is a KIND of food."
To prove this, Tobias turned ever so slightly back to the Wiggenbush and used his fingertips to stroke a few of the leaves. "See? Or you can read to them or talk to them or trim them, or even just help clean up the greenhouse! It's all super fun, 'cause it's all being helpful."
See?
SEEEEEEE?
Cutty's mouth twitched and looked like it was trying hard to stay shut. It was. Did this kid say what he thought he'd said? That plants are responsive to love? Care, obviously in the sense that if you wanted a plant to grow you needed to give a darn enough to let it have sun and water even if Cutty had never actually seen this successfully done for his mum's black thumb. But not in the sense that you would share your sweets with it.
Though, apparently that was EXACTLY the type of care this kid was talking about. Unable to hold back the laughs anymore, the muscles in Cutty's mouth gave way and he let loose a little chuckle which was then followed by a full burst of laughter. "What?! That's mental!" He said disbelieving. "If you want to to sing to them or take them shopping, be my guest. But, if I'm going to help you there's noo way I'm singing to anything that can't sing back." He paused as soon as this sentence came out of his mouth to consider it's accuracy. "Or anything." He finished driving the message home.
After the laughs had died down, Cutty looked over the taller boy and considered him. This kid seemed like he had a VERY good chance of being Professor Bentley's pet as she was seen stroking the leaves of a plant at the beginning of class that day they had their first ever class. It would behoove Cutty to remain co-operative towards the boy if he wanted to get ahead in Herbology, which he did, even if there wasn't anything to be done about the occasional hysterics this relationship promised.
"But I still want to help you." Yes, because that was tooootally what was going on here. Cutty was helping Tobias. M'mm-H'mm. Why not. "Got anything OTHER than taking them on romantic walks on the shore?"
~ Mrs. Steve Harrington ~ It be like that sometimes.
Well, he did what he could. Now the only task to do was to wait and see of the seedlings would be back to normal. If not...that would be too bad.
"I'll be back to check on you in a few days,'' Adi muttered, not at all feeling weird and worried about himself talking to a bunch of seedlings. He sort of awkwardly patted a few leaves on one. Now he felt weird. "See you guys later!''
Yep. He needed to check in on them and Adi hoped he remembered.
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Nerida finished watering all the plants she saw that needed water and looked around what else could she do. Oh lookie there was a rag and a bucket. Now what could she do with those two? Hmm...
Continuing to look around she saw the dirty windows, now they needed to be cleaned. So now it was time to look for some cleaning stuff. Because the old fashioned way always worked better!! After finding the soap she put some into the bucket after she gave it a good scourgify, just to make sure at least it was cleaned before adding soap and water because that would just create dirty water, and that was water you could not clean with.
"Aguamenti," she waved her wand as she spoke the spell and filled up the bucket with water. One of the necessities to clean something! Carrying the bucket nice and carefully she walked over to the windows and dropped her rag into the soapy water.
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curly haired prefect - "sometimes I get angry!" - 30/90 - *chicken emoji* - probably @ Disney - I speak dog
Caleb made his way over to the greenhouses from the student garden and looked for something to do. The greenhouses were in better shape than the garden, but not by much. Noticing a neglected plant nearby, Caleb headed over.
The plant was dry. Like REALLY dry. So he took out his wand, pointed it at the poor thing and said "Aguamenti!" and watched as the water fell from his wand. He was getting pretty good at this spell!
"There, all better, yes?" he said to the plant, making sure to get real close to it so it could soak up all the carbon dioxide or whatever it was they took from people.
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Lookin' like a true survivor_________________________________feelin' like a little kid
The greenhouses were everything that Tessa had thought they would be...and more. The first year had been excited about lots of things she had been discovering since she had gotten off the train for Hogwarts, but nothing could compare to how happy she was now.
Where do I begin? She thought to herself. There were many plants to look after, but Tessa wasn't for sure what she wanted to do. Eyeing some toadstools Tessa headed that direction. Arriving in front of them, the excited girl saw that they could use some water.
Leaving the toadstools for a few minutes, Tessa went to retrieve a watering can. She could have just used her wand and put water in the area, but that wasn't good enough for Tessa A. Hart. Back to the toadstools, Tessa caught herself humming as she filled the water can with water and found that she was starting to have fun.
Once the watering can was full, she carefully lifted it up and began watering the toadstools. "Like a light, consistent rain." She spoke to them with a smile. The watering can was difficult to maneuver but Tessa made do with what she could as she continued to hum to the toadstool as if she was singing to a baby.
curly haired prefect - "sometimes I get angry!" - 30/90 - *chicken emoji* - probably @ Disney - I speak dog
Alright, now that he'd watered one of the dry plants, he decided to move on to a nearby flower that seemed to be drooping. After he watered it, he sat down on a nearby stool and got really close to the plant. To help with that carbon dioxide and stuff.
"Hello little flower. Why so down? Hopefully my, erm, breath will help you for a little bit. You're very pretty, I like the yellowish red color of your petals. My name is Caleb by the way. I'm a Slytherin. I bet you don't like Slytherins. You seem to like Hufflepuffs," he said, rambling away as he talked to the plant.
He also kind of...pet it? Would that help? He softly touched the pretty petals and then decided that was enough petting and went back to talking to it.
"So, let me tell you about my family and stuff..."
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I'm still standin'________________________________________ better than I ever did
Lookin' like a true survivor_________________________________feelin' like a little kid
"You're looking quite good now." Tessa beamed once she had evenly spread the water across all of the toadstools she could reach, though she wasn't actually for sure if they were looking better. She inspected them from a couple feet away trying to recall if toadstools were supposed to be fed. She cocked her head to the side. "I'm not sure if you guys are supposed to get fed...and if you do, what you get fed." Tessa said with a sigh. "Sorry." She said, with another sigh. "I'd give you some more water, but I don't want to drown you in it." Tessa explained as she crouched near them.
Out of the corner of her eye, Tessa saw a plant behind her. One that she had never seen before in any of the pages she had read in her books or in her mother's own greenhouses and gardens. Getting closer to it, Tessa realized the plant was rather dry looking. "Oh no." Tessa said as she retrieved her watering can from near the toadstools. "I've got you, buddy!" She called as she made her way back. Carefully she refilled the watering can, this time with less water. "Here you go. I know you had to be thirsty. I don't know how someone missed you." Tessa said with a small sigh. If it were up to the firstie she'd live in the greenhouse and water all the plants daily!
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Ella entered the greenhouse after paying the turnstile and frowned slightly. It was sad, the way the supplies had depleted so much. Even more sad considering she didn't think they'd be replenished any time soon. As much as Hogwarts had improved from last term, things like bare cupboards made it clear that money was still tight.
"Hello, you lot." Talking to plants was totally normal, duh. "Ready to get some water? You look quite thirsty." Which was sad. Being thirsty was the worst. Your throat got all scratchy and your mouth got dry and-well plants didn't have either of those things but still. It wasn't good to be thirsty.
Wand in hand, the blonde approached the first group of plants and knelt down, feeling the soil. Quite dry. Frown.
After watering the plant Tessa had found, she leaned in closer to look at it trying to find some sort of distinguishing fact about it that she could remember and look up once she got back to her books. As she leaned in she couldn't help but talk to it more. "You're a special one, I know." She admitted, if she wasn't so happy about being in the greenhouses, the first year would have been frustrated she didn't know what she was tending for.
"Look at that. Your roots are showing." Tessa commented as she saw some of the roots showing. With any plant, Tessa knew that roots showing was probably not a good thing. "I'll be right back, promise. I won't strand you in need." Tessa told the plant as if it was a child before she ran off to find fertilizer.
curly haired prefect - "sometimes I get angry!" - 30/90 - *chicken emoji* - probably @ Disney - I speak dog
Caleb looked around and saw that a ton of people were talking to their plants now. Like a TON! He must have sparked a movement. Awwww yeah. He was awesome. Now moving on to his last task...
He noticed another shrub in desperate need of trimming nearby. What was with these people not trimming the plants? If their branches got too long, they were a serious hazard. You could walk into one and it would knock you right off your feet. So he took out his wand and decided to give Diffindo a shot - after all, how was he going to get better at the spell if he didn't PRACTICE?
He waved his wand. "Diffindo!" he cried. Snip snip snip. He watched as a few of the overgrown branches fell to the ground. He'd done it! And he hadn't cut the plant in half in the process.
Smiling happily, he packed up his things, feeling very successful about his participation in helping tidy up the greenhouses.
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I'm still standin'________________________________________ better than I ever did
Lookin' like a true survivor_________________________________feelin' like a little kid
elephant-astic•wanderlust•stay in the ninedaaays the original Taco Belle•look at the flowers✿
"Rub-a-dub-dub, flowers getting a scrub, and water but without the tub..." Yeah, she wasn't the best at making songs up on the spot. She was totally going to hum to the plants, though. Cause humming could be just as nice as singing, yeah? Even nicer than if you had a horrible voice. The blonde was also making good progress on the whole watering thing. Mhm.
Ella came to another section of plants and looked at them thoughtfully, remembering something. Not all plants needed that much water, yeah? Plus they'd learned another spell that would conserve water and still give out the appropriate amount. Sort of like a sprinkler flow but with your wand. Perhaps she'd use that this time. It seemed like a good plan to her.
Tapping her chin for a moment or two, the blonde tried to remember the spell. Aguaspray? ... ... Aguasplash? ...Aguaspritz! YES! That was it. Cool beans, yo.
Yeah I broke that mirror, so what? ll NOT backward ll Official Gryfferin ll Lemon's favourite
Time to take care of some plants!!! Lex could do that, she totally could and this time she wouldn't accidentally hack away at any of them then have to go hiding them afterwards. Not that that would have been the a problem. The compost bin could never be TOO full. Ahem...just saying, in case anyone was curious.
Lex hopped into the Greenhouse, chocolate frog dangling from her mouth and kneazle tucked under her arm. These were all she needed to get some extra work done. Of course a friend would have been appreciated too but she was fresh out of those at the moment and needed to get this done while she could still find the motivation.
"What do you think we should do first?" She asked, stopping and placing Felix on the ground. The kneazle walked to the nearest set of plants and hopped on to the stand. Lex nodded, completely pretending to understand like the good kneazle owner and mommy she was. "Right. These. We can start here." Or here..or over heeeeere.
"Aguamenti!"
Doo dee doo dee doooooo.
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Fertilizer? Where would someone find that? When Tessa realized she didn't actually know where she was going to find the fertilizer she just stopped walking all together and looked around the greenhouse. "Anyone know where some fertilizer is?" She asked to no one in particular. Maybe if she got lucky one of the healthy plants would point her in the right direction.
When she finally caught sight of the cupboard Tessa nearly ran across the greenhouse to get there. Who knew how long the plant that Tessa found would have if she didn't get the fertilizer in fast time? No one, so it was very important that Tessa do things quickly. At the cupboard she opened it up to find...
Hardly anything. "That's weird." Tessa mumbled to herself. Why would there not be things in the cupboard? Things were supposed to be stored there for safe keeping, why was it so bare? The young Gryffindor then remembered talk around the school about what happened the previous year. Surely they kept a little bit of fertilizer around!
Sure enough, Tessa found a small amount that she knew she could use. "It's not much." Tessa said to the plant softly as she began to put the fertilizer on, careful to not be too forceful. "But it's enough for now. I'll find you some more and visit again." Tessa said as she stroked the stem of the plant gently where there should have been more fertilizer. "Until then, my new friend. I'm happy we met. Maybe next time I'll bring my books with me and we can read together." Because people talk and read to plants...right?
Although she wished she could have stayed a bit longer, Tessa could feel her stomach starting to growl for food. It must have been close to lunch by then. The still ever excited first year hoped she still had time to stop by again before going off to classes after lunch.
elephant-astic•wanderlust•stay in the ninedaaays the original Taco Belle•look at the flowers✿
Plants needed water and some needed lots of light, yeah? Only the window panes in the greenhouse weren't exactly clean at the moment. This meant that getting the proper amount of light would be quite hard to do. Deciding this just wasn't right, Ella wandered over and assessed the situation. Some definite cleaning was in order.
"Don't worry, you guys. You'll have some light in no time at all." Captain Ella to the rescueeeee!
Then Ella pointed her wand at the window pane nearest her and said clearly, "Scourgify!" That's right, dirt. Time to be on your way.
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It probably wasn't all that okay to simply water one potted plant and move to a completely NEW section without getting the others. It'd kinda look mean and like you were discriminating or something 'cept that wasn't the case and she'd probably just hurt the feelings of the little darlings. "Hey Felix...you ever get the feeling that since we're meant to be doing this with love we ought to talk to them too? I heard it helps them grow." Felix gave no reply but simply walked further down the table, flicking his tail at the dry plant pots. She would take that as a yes, but first. "You won't have to get jealous, I'll still talk to you too, in fact...."
Lex walked down the table behind the kneazle, making a mental check as she went. These would all need water. She stopped when he did. "I think introductions are in order. Felix, these are the plants in this section of the Greenhouse. Plants in this section of the Greenhouse, this is Felix." See how less awkward it was when everyone knew each other? Huh? Huuuh?
"Aguamenti!" They all got water while she went on. "Now that that bit's been taken, what have you all been up to today? I imagine you've been doing a lot of cloud watching but that must be awfully rude of me. You all probably get into the most epic of things while I'm off in class or having a meal." Was that enough water? It looked like it.
Oh! Fertilizer, she would need some of that. "Felix, watch the plants will you? I'll be right back."
Now where did she see that dung?
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Cutty's mouth twitched and looked like it was trying hard to stay shut. It was. Did this kid say what he thought he'd said? That plants are responsive to love? Care, obviously in the sense that if you wanted a plant to grow you needed to give a darn enough to let it have sun and water even if Cutty had never actually seen this successfully done for his mum's black thumb. But not in the sense that you would share your sweets with it.
Though, apparently that was EXACTLY the type of care this kid was talking about. Unable to hold back the laughs anymore, the muscles in Cutty's mouth gave way and he let loose a little chuckle which was then followed by a full burst of laughter. "What?! That's mental!" He said disbelieving. "If you want to to sing to them or take them shopping, be my guest. But, if I'm going to help you there's noo way I'm singing to anything that can't sing back." He paused as soon as this sentence came out of his mouth to consider it's accuracy. "Or anything." He finished driving the message home.
After the laughs had died down, Cutty looked over the taller boy and considered him. This kid seemed like he had a VERY good chance of being Professor Bentley's pet as she was seen stroking the leaves of a plant at the beginning of class that day they had their first ever class. It would behoove Cutty to remain co-operative towards the boy if he wanted to get ahead in Herbology, which he did, even if there wasn't anything to be done about the occasional hysterics this relationship promised.
"But I still want to help you." Yes, because that was tooootally what was going on here. Cutty was helping Tobias. M'mm-H'mm. Why not. "Got anything OTHER than taking them on romantic walks on the shore?"
Tobias, being Tobias, smiled when Cutty started to laugh. He liked to make people smile, after all. Even when the boy spoke, Tobias kept on smiling. It wasn't his usual grin, but he was still happy that the other boy was happy, and of COURSE, Tobias was always ready to help.
"That's okay! A lot of people don't like talking to plants and stuff, 'cause I mean they aren't really sentient, you know? But they... are? But not. I think they just... sense stuff. Like how people can sense emotions," Toby half-explained, looking back at the shrub he'd been talking to. It was difficult to explain how he believed the plants were sort of semi-sentient, and given the way this boy had laughed, maybe it was a bit much to try and explain straight away.
Anyway, yes... the plants.
Toby took half a step back again, ready to focus on the plants and get all down on their level, and looked thoughtfully around the greenhouse. "You could always help clean the place?" he suggested, before he caught sight of a nearby flutterby bush. "Or you could help me trim and prune away some of the dead parts of these shrubs? Or water some of the ones I missed?"
With that, Tobias got down onto his knees again and sort of gently ran his fingers over some of the leaves on the wiggenbush again, communicating that he was still here. "It's a shame about the dung... it always helps to have some. But unless you happen to know a dragon nearby that's been on a high-fibre diet..."
Ahem.
Yeah.
Best get on with the plant stuff.
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Kace made his way to the greenhouse. As he made his way he noticed other students managed to make it. He saw them busy at work. He wondered what he could do first? He looked at the window panes and knew those guys needed cleaning.
He first walked over to get some gloves so he wouldn't get his hands dirty. He saw it and thought he could use the cleaning charm. He said, "Scourgify!" and then he saw the window was clean but he needed to scrub some of the nooks out. He took his glove and scrubbed out the grime and mold. He was whistling and having a good time. He already knew how to clean since he always cleaned on the farm.
He was onto the second window pane now. He said..."Scourgify!" and then it was clean and he saw even more dirt and mold into the tiny nooks and crannies. He scrubbed and even more scrubbed and even sang to them. He had no idea why but he just did.
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Lex had gotten to the other end of the Greenhouse before she found the cupboard containing things she would need to help her take care of the plants in the greenhouse and the greenhouse itself. Considering her main focus would be the plants she and Felix had found, she didn't bother taking too much dung with her. She eyed the amount in her hands. This should have been enough.
Once back with the plants she gave Felix a nod of appreciation for not having the plants wander off while he was meant to be watching them. No telling what could happen in a Greenhouse. It may have seemed all nice and innocent and simple but there was always something LURKING.
"This will make you grow big and pretty. I don't exactly know how it works," She began patting it down into the soil around each plant, "and in some cultures, when done to a person can and usually IS considered an insult but not with you darlings. You're all so understanding."Pat pat pat."I don't think I'd be able to sit still and have someone sprinkle dung all around me but you all see pass that and right at the benefits to be achieved or something like that. Honestly I don't know how you all do it and I try not to question it."Patpatpatpat..
Okay, that was all of them nice and snug in fertilizer, ready to start benefiting from it at their earliest convenience. Lex glanced over at the first plant in the row she'd been caring for.
"Just look at your leaves. Mmm, do you see that Felix?" By all indications she was still being ignored. He was used to this by now. She had a habit of speaking to things that didn't have the ability to respond. This wasn't all that much of a problem though considering she was MEANT to talk to them anyway but really...how would the Professor know? Did the plants report back to her at the end of the day? An interesting thought she would have to ask about.
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Alright so he got those windows all nice and clean. He had to use a little elbow grease but hey it paid off in the end right? Even his arms were aching and he had to stretch them out. He flexed and waved his arms around and then he realized there was a pile of leaves next to him that needed some raking. He went over to the greenhouse to get the rake.
He climbed through all the supplies and managed to find one. It seemed old but you never know how long this stuff was in here for. As long as it did its job then he was fine with it. He took the rake out and went over to the pile. He put it down and started to....
Rake....rake....rake...rake...and even more raking into little piles. He was actually having fun with this. He was whistling to, "Whistle while you work." Once he was finished with his little piles, then he moved them all into a BIG pile to burn. He WISHED he could play in them but he knew he couldn't....that was just make a bigger mess. He wondered if there were any garbage bags in this place before he resorted to burning them.
Tobias, being Tobias, smiled when Cutty started to laugh. He liked to make people smile, after all. Even when the boy spoke, Tobias kept on smiling. It wasn't his usual grin, but he was still happy that the other boy was happy, and of COURSE, Tobias was always ready to help.
"That's okay! A lot of people don't like talking to plants and stuff, 'cause I mean they aren't really sentient, you know? But they... are? But not. I think they just... sense stuff. Like how people can sense emotions," Toby half-explained, looking back at the shrub he'd been talking to. It was difficult to explain how he believed the plants were sort of semi-sentient, and given the way this boy had laughed, maybe it was a bit much to try and explain straight away.
Anyway, yes... the plants.
Toby took half a step back again, ready to focus on the plants and get all down on their level, and looked thoughtfully around the greenhouse. "You could always help clean the place?" he suggested, before he caught sight of a nearby flutterby bush. "Or you could help me trim and prune away some of the dead parts of these shrubs? Or water some of the ones I missed?"
With that, Tobias got down onto his knees again and sort of gently ran his fingers over some of the leaves on the wiggenbush again, communicating that he was still here. "It's a shame about the dung... it always helps to have some. But unless you happen to know a dragon nearby that's been on a high-fibre diet..."
Ahem.
Yeah.
Best get on with the plant stuff.
"I guess I'll trim and prune." The boy said trying to sound as if it were the only thing he could do, but coming across a bit too eager to handle shears and give the plants terrible haircuts. The boy rummaged through his bag immediately seeking out a pair of shears, anything that would cut really. Tail-twig trimmers. Those would have to do since Cutty doubted there would be any in the storage space. They gleamed against the light, reflecting it upwards as Cutty flexed them open and shut twice to try out their ease.
He hopped over to a nearby shrub and, unsure of what to cut made an ill-informed decision to snip a blossom off. Wouldn't Professor Bentley like a bouquet showing the fruits of their labour?
He ceased about to make his second snip to reflect on Tobias's remark about the dragon dung. "That's dizgoostin!" He huffed which was followed by another snip, this time getting a dying leaf he thought looked cool. He had to be kidding, however. For the the things this kid handled in his lifetime thus far. He had to be kidding.
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Once he was done raking the leaves, he realized he needed to do more tasks. He was already sweating. He used his forearm and wiped the sweat from his forehead. Wheww...he was REALLY working a sweat. But then again he was doing a good deed cleaning up the greenhouse for the professor. All the hard work would be worth.
He walked over to the board to see what else he could do. Oh he could do trimming by the bushes near the windows. He went over to the supply closet and got out the trimming scissors, he really didn't know what they were called, but he found them. He made sure they worked and they did. He went over to the bush and started to...
Snip....snip....snip....snip....snip....snip....an d even more snip.......
Then he realized he needed some bags to collect all the left over branches and leaves. He went to the supply closet to get bags and then he collected them all in the bag. Man this was a lot of labor, he even felt the sweat dripping down his back. "Well guys you must be feeling better." he said to the bushes.
"I guess I'll trim and prune." The boy said trying to sound as if it were the only thing he could do, but coming across a bit too eager to handle shears and give the plants terrible haircuts. The boy rummaged through his bag immediately seeking out a pair of shears, anything that would cut really. Tail-twig trimmers. Those would have to do since Cutty doubted there would be any in the storage space. They gleamed against the light, reflecting it upwards as Cutty flexed them open and shut twice to try out their ease.
He hopped over to a nearby shrub and, unsure of what to cut made an ill-informed decision to snip a blossom off. Wouldn't Professor Bentley like a bouquet showing the fruits of their labour?
He ceased about to make his second snip to reflect on Tobias's remark about the dragon dung. "That's dizgoostin!" He huffed which was followed by another snip, this time getting a dying leaf he thought looked cool. He had to be kidding, however. For the the things this kid handled in his lifetime thus far. He had to be kidding.
Trimming and pruning, awesome! Tobias gave the probably-younger-kid a big friendly smile and turned back to the wiggenbush he was still knelt beside.
"So, I'm just gonna trim some of these dead bits away, 'kay?" the Hufflepuff practically murmured. But he wasn't talking to the other boy, oh no. He was addressing the shrubbery.
Tobias already knew which parts of the bush he needed to trim off, and instantly reached over for one of those parts. "Flipnsnipwitit," he cast as he aimed his wand carefully at the small connecting branch and moved his wand kinda like a karate chop. The dead piece of shrub came off in his hand, and Tobias looked to see how the other boy was doing.
At first, Toby nodded to himself and turned back to his own plant, but quickly turned back again. Was that a... blossom? Like, a totally healthy one? And Tobias instantly recognised THAT instrument as-
"Tail-Twig Clippers?"
Tobias' voice escaped him in a squeak and he shuffled a bit closer on his knees, eager to help some more. Though whether he saw himself as helping the boy or the bush, Toby didn't know.
"Um... there's a spell you can use to do that, if you wanna learn it? It's super neat, look," the boy pointed out, speaking a little faster than before. "See... if you find a dead part of the plant, like that leaf you have, you just kinda slash your wand where you wanna cut it off and say 'Flipnsnipwitit.'" As Tobias had spoken, he had indeed cast the spell on his own shrub, and turned back to the other boy with an encouraging smile. "It's... really good for the plants."
Good for them in the way that Tail-Twig Clippers were not.
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Trimming and pruning, awesome! Tobias gave the probably-younger-kid a big friendly smile and turned back to the wiggenbush he was still knelt beside.
"So, I'm just gonna trim some of these dead bits away, 'kay?" the Hufflepuff practically murmured. But he wasn't talking to the other boy, oh no. He was addressing the shrubbery.
Tobias already knew which parts of the bush he needed to trim off, and instantly reached over for one of those parts. "Flipnsnipwitit," he cast as he aimed his wand carefully at the small connecting branch and moved his wand kinda like a karate chop. The dead piece of shrub came off in his hand, and Tobias looked to see how the other boy was doing.
At first, Toby nodded to himself and turned back to his own plant, but quickly turned back again. Was that a... blossom? Like, a totally healthy one? And Tobias instantly recognised THAT instrument as-
"Tail-Twig Clippers?"
Tobias' voice escaped him in a squeak and he shuffled a bit closer on his knees, eager to help some more. Though whether he saw himself as helping the boy or the bush, Toby didn't know.
"Um... there's a spell you can use to do that, if you wanna learn it? It's super neat, look," the boy pointed out, speaking a little faster than before. "See... if you find a dead part of the plant, like that leaf you have, you just kinda slash your wand where you wanna cut it off and say 'Flipnsnipwitit.'" As Tobias had spoken, he had indeed cast the spell on his own shrub, and turned back to the other boy with an encouraging smile. "It's... really good for the plants."
Good for them in the way that Tail-Twig Clippers were not.
Cutty noted that the boy was speaking a little faster. He recognized this tone. His mother had adopted it every now and again whenever Cutty was doing something right in the wrong way and required further explanation. The firstie put away his tail-twig trimmers and took out his wand instead. The peculiar pronunciation of that spell made him snort a little. But oh, yes! This was a spell he could use even apart from Herbology. Those tail-twig clippers were not a lightweight item in his school bag.
Cutty mimicked the karate-chop type wand motion and quietly repeated the incantation to himself. He gave the older kid a smile and a nod as he turned to get back to work. This kid was dead useful. He would be keeping him around. Getting back to the flowering bush, Cutty raised and fell his wand against some leaves that appeared to be browning and drying out. "Flipnipsnibbit!" No. Pretend he didn't say that. "Flipnsnipwitit!" He said more slowly and clearly as he repeated the wand motion. To his surprise it was an incredibly cooperative spell, and the brown detached itself from the rest of the healthy plant.
"So, erhm, are you Bentley's favourite student like?" He asked, wondering outloud. "And it's...something with a T, right?" He thought he'd heard the kids name being said in a class before.
After Kace was in the garden he made it back to the greenhouse because he was almost done. He was gonna collect his bags before he was gonna do another job. He did most of the work he needed to do but he saw some plants that needed fertilizing and watering. He had to go the plants and replace the soil and then he added the new soil with the fertilizer. He was patting the plants softly and giving them TLC like he did with the bushes earlier.
The plants seemed to like it because they were moving. Then he got the watering can and walked over and watered it. It was sucking the water up and loving it. "There you go little guy." Kace said and went onto the next plant. It seemed like it was his brother or sister. He replaced the soil with the newly fertilized soil and then he patted it softly once more and was singing to the plant and he even lightly patted the leaves. It seemed to like the gesture. Then he got the watering can and started to water it. They seemed happier and Kace smiled doing his good deed.
Once he felt he was done, he went over to a sink and started to wash his hands. He even wiped the sweat off his brow and forehead. He never realized how much work was needed in this place but he did it.
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