#18 - Morning Gardening

Lindsey had yet to start on her plants, but heard the young Gryffindor who had come in. So, she walked over and looked at the pair of boys.

"Sorry, I just over heard ye," she said with a smile and glanced around again. "Ye haven't gotten ye're kit yet?" she asked in a verifying tone, but still pleasant and nice.

Lindsey smiled at the Gryffindor and finished pulling on her gloves for harvesting her own plants.

"Professor Sprout will be very pleased, but since she isna 'ere, yere welcome to watch me harvest mine," Lindsey said as she motioned towards the plants with a pleasant tone.

"Ye'll need to learn the water-makin' charm, Aquamenti, and I'd be pleased to show ya the charm so that way when the Professor arrives, ye can have an idea," Lindsey said, smiling at the both of them while she stood there. She kept her robe on, even if it was a little warm.

Joe nodded and got up on his tip toes yet didn’t see the Herbology professor either. What a bummer.

“Oh, my Eglower got me good but I got it better,“ he said nonchalantly.
He turned towards the Slytherin that approached them and his first instinct was to be suspicious of her.

Joe had seen her around the greenhouse a few times and she had always appeared to be nice but after today he didn’t really trust anyone on Slytherin‘s Qidditch team with the example their Captain was setting.

“Rice, right?“, he asked her. She was conversing with Toby innocently enough for Joe to loosen up a little.

“You‘ve handled a very interesting plant the other day, what was it?“

He had not had time nor courage to check in with her while Charlottie and her brother had been here to learn the watermaking charm. But now she had approached his best mate, so talking to her was fair game.

"Bryce, but ye can call me Lindsey... Ye're King right? Ye played one hell of a game, lad," she said as she grabbed the pot from the shelf which proved to be the Furpod first. It was wriggling all over the place, it was fast and flexing in all shorts of direction. "I'm glad ye'll stick around... Ye're one of the Twiggs, right?" She asked, though not able to remember the boys name.

She had been there that morning at Breakfast and she didn't completely know what happened, but Amara was someone people didn't like. Lindsey didn't like her because something felt off, but as her captain, she would respect her on the pitch. She had dealt with the plant before, so she went into the battle and grabbed the bean and gave it a good yank.

"The Furpod... Feisty wee-bugger... Hands on is best, but once ye have the steam, it breaks easy... But it's fast," she said before she clean up the mess she made and then looked at the next pot.

The Fyire plant, which required her to use some sheers. As she approached, it burst into flames and she lifted her hand to shield her face. It was hot and she smiled at it before she went in with the sheers. With a quick movement, she cut the flower off and collected it.

"That one is a wee-bit dramatic, but easy enough, just don't burn yeself," she said as she placed the flower away and again, cleaned some of the area while she worked. "Gloves are very important," she said as she lifted her hand to show the gloves the boy. She had felt the heat of the plant before and it wasn't pleasant to recall.

The berries were easy enough to handle, the leaves were constantly trying to block the berries. Once she had a good hold of the plant, she used the sheers to snip off the berries from both the Sunurk and the Moonurk. Once they were removed, she put them aside and again, moved the mess to the side.

"Those are easiest of the plants, ye should certainly focus on those for a bit," she said as she put them away and then looked at the Eglower Flower. She put the sheers down and took hold of the stem before pollen was puffed into the air. She let out a sneeze and couched a little before she snapped the flower.

"Never gets easier for that one... That Pollen if awful," she said as she put everything away and began to clean up. She made sure to clean up before going over anything else with the two first year students.

"The professor will certainly need to go over it with you, but ye just point the wand at a pot and say the incantation, Aquamenti," she said as she pointed at an empty pot that was in the floor and some water came out. It was easy for her now, but at the beginning, it wasn't easy. She broke the spell before smiled at the young Gryffindor. "Ye're gonna do great," she said with a smile before she put her wand away.

Compared to most harvestable plants, the Eglower was less forgiving. Its stems were soft though needed a firm hand, yet any attempt to pick it caused the flower to puff sneeze-inducting, stinky pollen into the face.