The night the orchid bloomed
The Botanic Gardens are glass and green. The palm house is tall and humid, the greenhouse holds seedlings in long rows, and the rose garden and the herb garden are laid out in neat beds. The tool shed is where the gardeners keep their secrets, the café overlooks everything from the terrace and the hedge maze at the far end is easy to enter and slow to leave.
Botanists, students and patrons came for the flower. The clues decide who came for something else. Cases from the gardens in the archive are listed below.
How it plays
Almost everything here is outdoors, so the board is full of plants, trees and bushes that block their squares, and benches you can sit on. The terrace is the one place you stand "on". Garden rooms are often oddly shaped, wrapping around each other like the beds they are named after, which makes the row and column rule more useful than the room borders.
Start with the tool shed or the café, usually the smallest rooms, and work outwards.
