Where to find Dean Clary and the Botanical Garden

Find Clary after sleeping

1. Finish the first-day enrollment and sleep in your dorm room.
2. Read the letter from Dean Clary the next morning. From the dorm, go upstairs and meet her before searching for the garden.
3. In an earlier development-build capture, the route uses the smaller green door between statues. Follow the current quest marker or room labels if the released build looks different.

If Clary has not assigned the work, check that you completed the first night and read the letter. The release-day source places this meeting on the following Monday, not on the arrival afternoon.

Reach the garden and finish the first job

1. Leave Etchery, follow the right-hand path toward Wisk and turn off before the town to reach the Botanical Garden.
2. Speak to Clary at the garden. She introduces the digging song and hoe; open the songbook, play the song and place three plots.
3. Plant the supplied basil seeds in the small tilled spaces, fill the watering can at the pond and water until the soil darkens.
4. Continue Clary’s dialogue for the tree-cutting spell, then return to the dorm for Heather’s 8 PM common-room meeting.

If the song plays but no holes appear, queue and confirm targets. If the seed says the plot is too large, use the small-plot branch. The release-day walkthrough contains a confusing aside about dropping basil seeds into the well; we do not use that as a quest step because its own sequence requires planting the seeds.

What comes after the garden?

Heather’s common-room gathering is at 8 PM. After the next sleep, the release-day walkthrough places Professor Linnea’s music class on Tuesday and says its lesson grants a pickaxe spell for garden boulders. Check the in-game schedule if you took another route or a later patch changed the calendar. The event-time guide explains why a story event can wait without making every NPC available all night.