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Half -Moon is the name given to Velma's home which was the gift of a delighted patron whom she made a signature flower in his House Colors (purple, yellow, and blue) for who is a powerful builder in Erubesco.
Half-Moon is open to the people of Erubesco during the daylight hours and is where everyone near and some far come for their plant needs Half-Moon is the most open of homes.

At night till its Mistress sleeps the large green house resembles a fallen moon half buried in the earth's surface and then is open to only friends and high paying customers.
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[center][b]Good day Sunshine[/b][/center]

Velma lay back neath the glass roof of her home nude on a padded bench surrounded by her favorite plants who had announced by scent someone had entered her grounds.
She was quickly in a gossamer wine red dressing gown that clung to what meager curves she had shimmering in the morning sun.
She walked through what was moments ago barbberry vines that encircled her bed in 3 inch barbed thorns that held a caustic sting in their tips that made the offender feel razor cut and bathed in brine.
It was her patron's mother and she held a small but rare desert orchid that was already wilting.
Leaning close Velma reached out and touched the delicate little thing causing its instant revival .


"How wonderful" exclaimed the old woman though it wasn't the first time she had seen this and would not likely be the last as she insisted on keeping the plant outside of the only environment in which it could survive.
 
"No worries Mistress, for your happiness is mine" answered Velma to the older and Ranking woman recognizing her position.
Then the two sat and chatted about how the flower was a memory of the older woman's wedding night and her husband's love; it was a story Velma had heard before but she knew the old noble woman needed to tell. 

When the woman left Velma headed over to where a few  serfs who worked for the city who were here to collect roses in the color's of the Royal House to be planted around the outskirts of the castle and smaller flowers in the colors of the Lords who sat on the council to be planted in the window boxes
She spent a few minutes explaining to the serfs how important it was to make sure the plant faced the sun on one side in particular and that the flowers be planted in the locations written on each one. To the serfs this didn't make much sense but she assured them that following her orders would prevent them both from being called to task for the failures of the plants.

Happy that she'd gotten her point across to the serfs Velma next walked into her labs and checked on her projects. One was a rice that could grow in mildly polluted water and not carry any of the toxins into the grains, another was a plant that released 3 times the normal amount of oxygen under simple electric lights as long as they had water. 

Once the growing plants were looked after she set up a bench for altering the DNA of seeds which were to be planted on an extension farm of Erubesco at the edges of the Ashlands. This was by far her most time intensive task and took her another two hours before she had time to check the clean-out lists sent to her by the Municipal Council.

A light work day this left her time to visit her landscaping in the royal park and enjoy her art.