(ooc: *pets you*) Taking a leaf out of a friend's book, Nadia just ignored the question as if her attention was too caught in the second part of Zekke's speech. "Yes, sure--

"But, Zekke," and here she turned to him, "you said you wanted this extra work to help you work with plants and improve your grades, but you and Jaren had stayed with the manual work of the greenhouse caretakers. Come here -" she guided Zekke back to the watering section they had been at earlier, cleaning herself up with magic.

"The professor didn't seem to have a problem with us staying and the section needs to be watered constantly, so here's an idea. Let's do the watering again, and meanwhile, you will try to recognize each plant you water, deal? We will review the plants and their properties as we go."

She summoned two pitchers, cleaned them with Scourgify and went re-filled them with a watering charm. The feeding had been done so only the watering would do. She handed Zekke a pitched, and spared a look at Jaren to invite him over. "Let's begin then. This plant has a slender, irregular creeping rootstock covered with red scales, it sends up thin delicate leaves, each composed of three heartshaped leaflets, a bright green above, but of a purplish hue on their under surface."

She recited on as if taken from the very same book, "As you can see, the long slender leaf-stalks are often reddish towards the base. The leaflets are usually folded somewhat along their middle, and are of a peculiarly sensitive nature. Only in shade are they fully extended: if the direct rays of the sun fall on them they sink at once upon the stem, forming a kind of three-sided pyramid, their under surfaces thus shielding one another and preventing too much evaporation from their pores.

"At night and in bad weather, the leaflets fold in half along the midrib, and the three are placed nearly side by side to 'sleep,' a security against storm and excessive dews. It produces two kind of seasonal flowers, the first is formed somewhat like the Crane'sbills (to which they are closely allied) and the corolla is composed of five delicate white petals.

"The second flower's petals never open up." She stopped and waited for Zekke to give his veredict.