Botany Manor 100% guide

The seed bag is on the potting station. Collect the three clues: the Postcard on the table beside the newspaper, and the Wildflowers poster and Temperature Chart on the blackboard on the right. Pin all three to the Windmill Wort page.

Fill a pot with soil, plant the seed and water it. The clues point to volcanic heat from Sicily: set the boiler dial to 60°C, put the pot in front of the heat vent by the newspaper, and press the red button. The plant blooms, the smog lifts and the exit opens.

Required: grow the same plant three or more times.

Repeat the Windmill Wort process twice more while the boiler and vent are in front of you. It's the quickest plant in the game to regrow. Keep the spare pots for In The Bin and Flower Arranging.

Required: try to open any locked door or gate you don't hold the key for.

Outside, follow the path to the three-way junction. The gate on the left, into the Entrance Garden, is locked; its key is in the basket under the red post box toward the Gatehouse. Interact with the gate before fetching the key. The achievement unlocks as soon as it rattles.

Sit on any seat. Turn around as you leave the Conservatory: the first bench is against its wall.

Required: sit on a garden bench for one minute or more.

Stay seated on that same garden bench and leave the controller alone for a little over a minute. Both seat achievements pop from the one sit.

The first duck, a white duck, sits on the vestibule windowsill across from the potting station. Pick it up and inspect it.

This is duck 1 of 5 for Quack Quack Quack Quack!. Every duck must be picked up and inspected; just seeing it doesn't count.

Empty a pot into the compost bin at the potting station. Any grown flower works, so tip one of your spare Windmill Worts.

Required: a plant on every saucer in the Flower Room.

There are twelve saucers, and a couple sit on the floor, so look low as well as on the shelves. Duplicates count, so the fastest method is to grow more Windmill Worts back at the Conservatory vent and carry each bloomed pot onto a saucer until all twelve are filled. Extra pots are on the shelf below the potting station. If you run short of pots or would rather not grind it now, fill the remaining saucers with later plants at any point before posting the herbarium. If all twelve saucers are filled with duplicates and the achievement still doesn't unlock (a historically reported issue, not normal behavior), swap in one of each of the twelve different plants.

Chapter 1 ends when you step into the Main Hall.

Interact with the harpsichord in the Drawing Room.

Required: fire the flash lamp with a faulty chemical mix.

Fill the Apothecary flask with anything other than the correct recipe (sodium, zinc and barium works), pour it into the flash tray, close the tray and press the button. The lamp fizzles and the achievement unlocks. Doing it before the real photo costs nothing.

The Fulguria seed bag is on a chair at the bottom of the Grand Staircase. As with every plant, pot it in soil and water it first.

Five clues: Photographs on the lamp table at the bottom of the Grand Staircase, the Folklore Book on the table at the far end of the Dining Room, the Flash Lamp Manual on the round table by the Drawing Room fire, and the Letter from Farmer and Flash Powder Bottle on the Drawing Room desk near the camera (rotate the bottle to read it).

Mix 2 parts potassium to 1 part magnesium in the Apothecary flask, pour it into the flash tray, close it, put the potted Fulguria on the saucer in the alcove, and press the red button to take the photo. The flash makes it bloom.

Required: photograph a flower that isn't the Fulguria.

Mix another 2:1 potassium and magnesium batch, swap a bloomed Windmill Wort onto the saucer, and take a second picture.

Plant the Ash Plume seed in soil and water it (it stays a seed), then set the pot on the pan above the Kitchen fire. The seed cracks open and the achievement unlocks.

Carry the pot out to the smokehouse in the Kitchen Garden and place it on the smokehouse saucer. Grab an oak log from the wood piles by the Servants' Hall door and put it on the smokehouse coals; the smoke does the rest.

Chapter 2 ends when the Orchard key arrives by delivery at the Gatehouse.

The seed bag is in the Orchard's wooden shed. Five clues: the Microscope Slides and Chloroplasts Book in the covered brick structure, the Pot Notes on the bench in the shed, and the Cider Apples poster and Apple Blending chart in the Cider Garden's covered area.

The target is 97 g of sugar, which matches the standard top-right pot on the potting stations. Plant and water the seed in that pot, set it on the saucer at the foot of the cider press, load every apple at once, and turn the handle a single time. Pressing in separate batches is the usual reason it fails.

Each apple variety's sugar content is listed on the clues. Two combinations that work:

• Knobbly Russet, Cat's Head and Merlin's Mist
• Knobbly Russet, Brown Snout and Dabinett

Other combinations that total exactly 97 g also work.

Read the Manor Plans before trying the scales; the passage is reported not to open until you have. Then go to the Pantry scales and place the 1, 5, 9 and 3 weights in that order, left to right. The priest hole opens and the achievement unlocks.

Inside, the tufted duck sits on a crate near the entrance. Inspect it for duck 3 of 5.

Follow the passage through to the lower Orangery and repair the broken staircase with the planks. Down here, pick up the Wolfglove seed bag at the dry fountain and the Coin Collection, split between two boxes on opposite sides of the room.

The clues point to Weisshorn's 40 f/s wind. Put the potted plant on the saucer on the tower platform, ride up with it, and set the shutters like this:

• Floor 1: open one shutter only. Use the right-hand one; either side is reported to work.
• Floor 2: leave both closed.
• Floors 3 and 4: open both shutters.

Bring the plant to floor 4 and it blooms.

Required: reach the top of the tower.

Wolfglove only needs floor 4, so keep riding the platform up to the fifth floor before you leave.

After the next Gatehouse delivery, the Library Hall door has a letter lock. The code is Elizabeth Ann Hopgood's initials: E, A, H.

Press the five vault buttons in the order 3, 2, 5, 4, 1: sunrise, fish, hare, crow, moon. A wrong press needs all five pressed before the sequence resets.

Inside, collect Grandma's Research from the table and inspect the Sunset Paintings on the walls (one clue for the whole set). Pick up the Study key from the basket across the room and the Nightfall seed bag from the far corner.

Plant the seed, then put the pot on the saucer at the base of the tree by the Main Hall fireplace, and it blooms. Its bloom clears the tree blocking the upstairs corridor, which every remaining Chapter 4 clue sits behind.

Pull the chain on the en-suite toilet.

Required: connect all the pipes.

Six pipe pieces are scattered around the bathroom: on and beside the toilet, by the sink and on the floor beneath it, on the small table, and on the lower shelves of the furniture. Check the floor as well as surfaces. Fit them into the boiler pipework until the circuit is closed. This repair is also what lets the bath fill for Brook Chalice.

Pot, plant and water the Cradle Fern seed, then place the pot on the saucer beneath the bells. The clues spell out the crested owl's call: ring the bells in the order E, C, D, E, G, F.

The projector is on the Attic's upper level with a saucer beside it for the pot. The clues describe the September 12th sunset. Slot the coloured glass into the projector slots from left to right, blue, yellow, orange, red. Put the potted Nightfall on the saucer in front of the projector, then press the projector's button to switch it on.

Put the potted plant in the bathtub, drop the rusty pig in, set the water to 25°C (the River Frome) and fill the bath.

Chapter 4 ends when the Formal Garden key arrives by delivery.

Pick up the handle lying in the grass in front of the abandoned lawnmower near the pond and fit it to the water-control pedestal in the Formal Garden, by the picnic area overlooking the Grotto pool. The water rises, lily pads appear, and the achievement unlocks as soon as the handle goes in. The lily pads are also your route to the Grotto for Fool's Emerald.

Required: inspect Arabella's paintings.

Take the path to the right of the bandstand that leads down toward the Boathouse; the Unfinished Painting is on an easel on the left side of that path, across the pond. With the Chapter 3 Botanical Painting already inspected, the achievement unlocks. If it doesn't, go back to the Painting Room and inspect the Botanical Painting again. If it still hasn't popped, also inspect the easel by the gazebo in the Formal Garden and the Sunset Paintings in Grandma's Vault. They aren't confirmed as required, but checking them is a cheap precaution.

Plant the seed in the sandstone pot (top middle of the Gardening Workspace shed), water it, and add seaweed at the fertilizer station, then place it on the saucer under the Bird Garden skylight. Lure the robin in with the two bird feeders, moving them along the hooks toward the plant. Move slowly and don't rush up to the bird, or it flies off.

Required: inspect all five ducks.

The last duck, an Egyptian goose, sits on the boxes at the bottom of the Boathouse steps, left of the potting station. Inspect it and the achievement unlocks if the other four are done.

Missed one? All five stay where they are; the Ducks checklist in the Collectibles section lists every location.

Plant the Oscilette seed in a soil-filled pot (watering is optional). The clues lead to the red squirrel's resting heartbeat, 120 BPM. Load the Meadow's Bliss cylinder, the 120 BPM record on the windowsill by the phonograph, put the pot on the saucer beside it and play it.

Send S.O.S. first, before growing Fool's Emerald: three dots, three dashes, three dots. The telegraph has been reported to stop responding once the plant blooms; if that ever happens, close the lid, move the telegraph to another spot and reopen it.

Now send KA: dash dot dash, then dot dash. The plant blooms.

Required: complete all the plants in the Herbarium.

Twelve blooms alone may not be enough. Open the herbarium and make sure every plant page has all of its clue slots filled: 65 clues across the twelve plants. The last page of each chapter indexes found and missing clues, and the Collectibles section lists every clue's location. The index also lists a few puzzle notes with no plant slot (the priest hole and vault notes, and the lawn note); they aren't part of the 65. The achievement normally unlocks when the twelfth plant blooms with every clue in place; if it doesn't, fill the missing clues and it should follow. If every clue is assigned and all twelve plants have bloomed but it's still locked, try regrowing a plant or replaying a chapter through Chapter Select; neither is a guaranteed fix.

Before going near the post box, check:

• Botanical Researcher has unlocked.
• Flower Arranging: all twelve saucers filled.
• Mountaineer, Art Lover and Quack Quack Quack Quack! are done.
• Boom, Photographer, Piano Woman, Help? and the two seat achievements are done.

Post the herbarium at the Gatehouse post box and watch or skip the credits. In the epilogue classroom in the Library, pick up the book from the desk and place it on the lectern. The achievement unlocks the moment the book goes on the lectern. The game doesn't save during the epilogue, so don't quit before placing it.