William puts on his gloves. He packs Moon calf Dung into his hole.

Next, Eino returned to the front of class from where he took a bucket of dragon dung and a water can, and then returned to his spot. After placing the bucket and can beside him he proceeded to take very small amounts of the dung with his left hand, then with his right hand he took even smaller amounts, only using his fingers, and sprinkling the hole with it. He did this several times so ensure that the dung was well spread and equally distributed.

Then he pulled out his wand and filled the can with water. He thought it was be best this way because he still hadn't mastered the charm and was worried too much water would fill the whole and he would either have to begin anew or risk his plant drowning. After the can had sufficient water, he placed his wand away and carefully sprinkled the hole with some water. He slowly and cautiously tipped the water can around the spot rather than just fill the middle with water. He was so worried not to over-water the hole that he was even shaking, plus it didn't help that he was wearing the thick dragon hide gloves. At the same time, he really didn't want to touch poo, especially not wet poo so he wanted to keep the gloves. After that was done, the hole was all dungy and moisten.

Post 6#!

Naw. Thea's plant look prrrrreeeetty! Grinning, she reached over her plant for the watering can for the second time. Pushing her bandana further up her head, she began sprinkling a little water over and in her potted plant.
Cocking her head to the side, the little lioness looked at her plant. Maybe theProfessor would let her plant another one to send to her mam? Flo loved flowers and plants.. the garden was like a jungle!

Popping her watering can back, Thea leant over the table to grab a tag.

William uses the MoonCalf Dung and Dragon Dung to fertilize the Flutterby Bush. Willaim puts the Flutterby Bush in the grouund.

Post #7! Last one

After sprinkling a bit more dung around her plant, Thea dug her quill out of her bag.
tounge sticking out slightly, Thea wrote her name and house on her tag.

Text Cut: thea's plant tag

Name: Thea-Aurora Eden
House: Gryffindor
First Year

Attaching it to her Flutterby Bush, Thea once again, tried to dust her hands off to get them a bit cleaner.

Simon practiced the spell a few times before listening carefully to Professor Bentley as she moved on from the questions to their actually class assignment. Everything sounded fairly non-dangerous and non-smelly which was a change from previous classes and a plus.

"Flipnsnipwitit," he cast with a swish of his wand, trimming away one of the loose and dead branch on his plant. Satisfied with the action, he moved onto various leaves repeating the spell a few times careful to do so inbetween movements to avoid any mistakes.

William put the plant in again more carefully. He patted all the sirt around it carefully.

Hehehehe.

Ellie couldn't speak, and only nodded at the Professor. Though, she was glad the Professor had also laughed at it.

Hehehe.

Breathe? Ellie inhaled........................and exhaled.

She was going to continue practicing just the incantation...she hadn't even gotten to the wand movement, even after the bushes arrived.

Okay. Flipnsnipwitit. "Fliiiiip." Progress. "N" No giggles so far. "Sniiiiip." They almost sounded like real English words. "Witit."

Breathe.

Faster? "Flipnsnibbit." Heheheheheee.

So close.

Breathe.

"Flipnsnipwitit." Oh! Hey! That was it! "Flipnsnipwitit."

Aaaand. What was the wand movement again?

Gwen checked out the instructions. So I have to sprinkle a little dragon dung around its base. That's not so bad, the girl decided, and did so, as it was indicated. Seems like I'm DONE!, she thought.

I just need to tag my plant.

With the Flutterby Bush looking well, Simon looked up at the board to check on the next step. Digging, he mused to himself slipping on his dragonhide gloves. He picked up a shovel and proceeded to dig a decent size hole in the bed. The captain gingerly lifting the pot once to check if it was big enough. When it wasn't, he carefully lowered the plant back down before going back to work in his digging eventually satisfied with the hole's size.

With extreme caution, Eino used a single finger to loosen the soil around the edges of the pot. All of the excess soil that fell out he gathered together so his workplace could look a little less messy. After he had made sufficient space around the edges for his fingers to fit, he dug both hands into the pot, trying to go as deep as possible to hold the plant by its roots, and pulled it out of the pot. Once out of the pot, he placed one hand under the plant and the other kept on its side, and shook off the excess soil. The plant seemed to be cooperating because all of the sudden it gave two violent shakes, ridding itself of all the excess soil. With enough space for the roots to breathe, Eino then put the Flutterby Bush in the ground.

When the plant was sitting nicely in the hole, he gathered all of the excess soil and empty the soil that was left in the pot, too. He would need all of this in the end to fill any empty spaces. even though too much soil would suffocate the plant, not enough could possibly lead to dehydration. He had to make sure there was sufficient soil to absorb some water for the plant.

Aurora loosened the soil in her hole and took a small gloved handful of dung, sprinkling a little into the hole. She picked up a watering can and tipped it to let a small patter of water moistening the fertilised soil.

Lucas copied down the instructions quickly. It was easier to have them right there rather than having to look up at the board every five seconds.

Alright, step one. He pulled on his gloves like a good herbology student and went to get a Flutterby bush from the front of the room. He brought it back to his spot and stared it down for a moment. The staring had seemed to work on the branch, so he figured it would work on the bush, too. It was moving a bit, so he said, "You're going to have to hold a bit more still than that," and gently took hold of it to stop it from moving so much. "Now I'm going to trim back all this dead stuff and... Whatnot." He figured if he told it what he was doing, maybe it would be less stressed and move about less. (Was that even why they did that?) He aimed his wand very carefully toward a dead area. "Flipnsnipwitit," he said, and swished his wand. He had done a pretty precise job. Not perfect, but pretty close to it for it only having been the second time he'd really done the spell well. "That's better, isn't it?" he asked the plant, moving on to another dead area. "Flipnsnipwitit," he said again, swishing his wand and pruning the plant more. He repeated the spell on a few more areas until the plant looked presentable. "You look sorta cute," he commented to it. "I think I'm going to call you George. You seem like a George to me." On to step 2!

William watered his plant.

Ariella stared at her Flutterby Bush for a few moments, meditating on the best way to trim back the leaves. She did NOT want to mess up. She took a deep breath and said the charm a few times to herself before trying it out with the wand movement.

"Flipnsnipwitit!" she said firmly, swishing her wand gracefully. The dead twigs disappeared, while the leaves slowly trimmed themselves backwards.

Victoria got her wand out and took a deep breath and then said "flipnsnipwitit" and nothing happened so she tried again, she smiled as she watched the bush started to trim itself.

Aurora gently pulled the Flutterby bush from it's pot and shook the excess soil loose from the roots. The bush shivered and fluttered, almost as if it was shivering.

With a shovel in hand, Ariella got to work on step 2. She studied her flowerbed, trying as best as possible to estimate how big the whole needed to be. She dug for a few minutes before picking up her pot to examine it again. A little too small, she thought to herself. She began to dig again before being satisfied. Step 2 complete!

Victoria grabbed her shovel and started digging her hole, she stopped a few times to check that it was big enough for the pot.

Wiliam made sure he did not over water the plant.William sprinkled a little dragon dung around the FlutterBy. William tags his plant. " William Starr- First Year- Gryffindor.

Aurora gently placed the Flutterby bush into the hole she had dug. She secured it by filling the gap with the excess soil, gently patting it down.

Reaching down into the pot with one gloved hand, Simon gently dug a little at the bottom. Just enough to loosen it up like it said in the directions. With his opposite hand he retrieved a bit of the dragon dung he had picked up earlier and sprinkled it within. He then brushed off both gloved hands and picked up his wand, casting a quick but gentle "Aquamenti," to moisten the soil.

Three steps down...four to go.

Dulcibella carefully trimmed her Flutterby Bush, making sure that she did it very carefully and neatly. She liked to get all her work well presented.

Ariella tilted her head to check the board for step 3. Should be easy enough. She put on her gloves and ran her hands through the soil, loosening it gently. She was careful not to over work it and make it too grainy. She clapped her hands together to shake off any excess soil. Now for the dragon dung. She sprinkled an ample amount into her pot and a little bit of water with an "Aguamenti!" Perfect! The soil soaked it up easily. 3 down, 4 to go.!

Victoria loosened the earth with her fingers and then she put on her gloves so she could put some dragon dung in the bottom, she grabbed her wand and said "Aguamenti" until the bottom of her hole looked ready for the next step.