The King's Little Gardener

Ben cares for plants more than anything else, and he knows every flower in his village along with the exact amount of water each one needs. When Mistress Holly, the King's head gardener, invites him to look after the royal greenhouse, he takes his small watering can and promises to give his best. Behind the tall glass walls he discovers rows of pots filled with plants from every corner of the kingdom, along with a long list of duties: water carefully, dust the leaves, check the soil and never mix up the seeds.

One busy afternoon, while sorting palace seeds into labeled trays, Ben lets a few packets slip into the wrong ones without noticing. Weeks later, the shoots that appear are not what he planted, with leaves curling like ribbons and some striped or spotted. His first thought is to hide the mistake, but the plants still need care, so he waters them daily and notes on his clipboard which one prefers shade and which drinks more. This gentle tale by Yavuz DEMİRKIRAN follows Ben as patience and curiosity reshape an accident, and it can be read on Online Masal.