Up until now (meaning Hogwarts), plants had been just...well, plants to Nora. The most she'd ever done as far as studying them had been to know that red roses were for love, and pink roses were for friendship. Or...was that supposed to be yellow roses? She mentally shrugged off that thought and moved her attention back to the lesson.

The professor had started asking about tulips, and since the only thing Nora knew about them was that they came in all sorts of pretty colors, she decided to just sit and listen to this one. Was a blue tulip supposed to be rare or something? She watched as the professor carry it around during his discussion. She blinked and sat up a little straighter at the trilling around. Well, that had been pretty cool. Hopefully the tulips weren't anything like those mandrakes she'd been told about. It was amazing how even something like plants could be so mysterious in the magical world.

At the wave of a wand, the professor showed a list of the tulip colors and what they meant. Hmm. Not too far from what she'd heard about roses. When the professor directed them to plant a group of tulips themselves, Nora realized that she'd gotten lost somewhere in his discussion. It had been a pretty long discussion to be fair to her. She just hoped she did this the right way. She decided to go with pink and yellow, and if she managed that, she might try green next. She started with the pink and then the yellow, carefully carrying her selected flowers over to the staging area.