Garden of Tranquillity

Walkthrough
 NOTE: You do NOT need to complete the quest entirely for ring of charos(a) you just need to start it and pass the Wise Old Man's test.

Teleports for quicker travel are optional but highly recommended: Varrock teleports, Amulet of glory to get to Draynor Village and to the well in Edgeville (an explorer's ring 3 can get to Draynor), Falador teleports, Ectophial, Ardougne teleports, Camelot teleports (for Burthorpe and Catherby, but a games necklace can get to Burthorpe), Combat Bracelet (to get to Monastery), and the Fairy Ring system for the Port Phasmatys patch (closest code is ALQ) and Edgeville/Grand Exchange (DKR)Having completed Desert Treasure is also useful for the locations able to be teleported with ancient magicks.

To start the quest, go to the kitchen in the Varrock palace, exit through the kitchen's eastern door, and go south through the trellis into a fenced garden, where Queen Ellamaria is. Speak to her about the untidy garden, and she will hand over a list of the plants she needs.

Enchanting the ring
With the ring of charos obtained from Creature of Fenkenstrain quest and after talking with the queen, head for Draynor Village and talk to the Wise Old Man (house opposite Draynor bank). He will tell a story about Queen Ellamaria before she was married to King Roald and the history of Charos and the origin of his ring. The Wise Old Man tells you he will activate the power in the ring if you can correctly answer a few questions to see whether you are worthy of owning an activated ring.

The answers to the questions are as follows:
 * 1) Show them a range of colours so that they can come to a compromise.
 * 2) Take his generous gift even though you have no need for it.
 * 3) It's absolutely, unquestionably the most interesting thing I've ever done!
 * 4) Put on the silly helmet and jump into the cannon.
 * 5) You of course (Player Name), no one could ever challenge your greatness!
 * 6) Ask me nicely and I might consider it.
 * No, especially not that wise old man, who doesn't look at all suspicious.

After answering the questions correctly, the Wise Old Man will enchant the ring of charos. Now, when wearing the Ring of Charos (a), you will be able to persuade the NPCs on the Queen's list by using dialogue including the word Charm in parentheses. (Note: After the Wise Old Man enchants your ring, any banked spares you may have picked up during Creature Of Fenkenstrain will disappear.)

Obtaining the seeds
The object of the quest is to obtain the necessary seeds from certain NPC farmers, and plant them in the Queen's garden. The garden does NOT have its own tool leprechaun however there is one nearby at the Tree patch so you have a choice between bringing your tools or running to the leprechaun. With the exception of the white tree, the plants do not take long to grow, so it is recommended that you do them at the end. Watering is not needed for the Queen's garden; neither is compost, except for the two varieties of orchid seeds by the same name. The NPCs can be visited in any order, but it is recommended that you visit them in the order that follows:

Dantaera, Catherby and Brother Althric, Monastery
Items needed for this section: Ring of Charos(a), Secateurs or Magic secateurs, filled Plant pot, Gardening trowel, Spade, a Rake, a Fishing rod or Fly fishing rod, and a Watering can.

This step is recommended first because it takes a while for the White tree sapling to grow.

Head to Dantaera in Catherby (she's the gardener at the allotment farming patch.) Camelot teleport or Charter ship is the easiest way to reach her. Speak to her with the ring of charos worn. Select the (charm) options whenever possible, and Dantaera will instruct you cut a branch from the almost extinct White Tree, which is on the top of Ice Mountain, near the Oracle and Falador

NOTE: Do not confuse the Ice Mountain, which is in Free-to-Play and near Falador, with the White Wolf Mountain, which is near Catherby.

After talking to Dantaera, go to the bank and grab a filled plant pot, a pair of secateurs, a watering can with water, and a gardening trowel. Go to Edgeville, via Glory teleport, Varrock/Grand Exchange teleport, or fairy ring DKR. Or, if you have completed Fishing Contest AND The Giant Dwarf, you can use the Wolf Mountain underground shortcut, take a cart ride to Keldagrim, and ride to the Grand Exchange. Then run to Edgeville. Don't head for Ice Mountain yet, though; there's work here to do.

Head west from Edgeville towards the Ice Mountain, and you'll pass the Monastery. Head to the rose garden at the north end, where you'll find Brother Althric. Try to talk with him using the (Charm) dialogue option, he will sense you are using an unnatural power and say you are "concealing something of great evil." He suggests you either throw the "dark talisman" down the well in Edgeville or simply destroy it. Do not throw away or destroy the ring before being told by Althric to do so.

Return to Edgeville, and throw the ring down the local well, at the north-east corner of Evil Dave's house. If you instead destroy it, you will have to go to Fenkenstrain's Castle or Harmony Island and pickpocket Dr. Fenkenstrain to recover the ring.

With the ring thrown away, return to the Monastery and attempt to take the seeds (from the rosebushes) again. This time Althric will be pleased you have "taken the road back towards the light" and will allow you to take the rose seeds: red rose seeds, pink rose seeds, and white rose seeds. Make sure you get all three rose seeds! Althric will let slip a suggestion on how one might retrieve the ring - which you will do after getting the white tree sample.

Head west from the Monastery to the Ice Mountain. (Note: If you haven't yet talked to Dantaera, you can't get a clipping from the tree; instead it gives you a message that this will kill the tree and you can't bring yourself to do it.) Climb to the tip and you'll find the White Tree, located near the Oracle. Take a sample with your secateurs (if you try to use a knife it will not work), and put it in your filled plant pot (make sure your secateurs are in your inventory, don't wield them because it won't give you the option to cut the white tree. Click on your secateurs then click on the white tree). WATER IT. Return to Edgeville.

To retrieve your ring of charos, use your fishing rod or fly fishing rod (the oily fishing rod does not work) on the well in Edgeville. It might take several tries, but you will eventually get it back. If you destroyed the ring, you have the chance to get it back from Fenkenstrain's Castle before speaking to Lyra.

Now either use your Ectophial or take the fairy ring south of the bridge in Edgeville on the east side of the River Lum which will allow you easy access to Lyra, in Port Phasmatys. If using fairy rings, use code ALQ. (this will spawn you near some Level 70 aggressive vampyres). Run north to the allotment.

Lyra, Port Phasmatys
Items needed for this section: Ring of charos (a) equipped, three onion seeds, a bucket of compost/super compost, a rake, a seed dibber, a watering can, and an Ectophial (optional). It's also recommended to bring some plant cure or about 100 coins, if you do not already have Marigolds planted at the flower patch.

Fastest Transportation: Ectophial (needs completion of Ghosts Ahoy quest), fairy ring ALQ (note: this will spawn you near level 52 leeches and level 71 vampyres. Run north towards the patch. Teleport using the Amulet of Glory to Karamja, from there use the charter ship to Port Phasmatys (if it is your first time using the charter, make sure you bring 1,450 coins for the trip.), then run north-west

It is recommended that you bring marigold seeds for this part of the quest, as they are easily obtained from the Grand Exchange.

Go to the undead farm between Port Phasmatys and the Fenkenstrain's Castle (check your world map for reference; it's the farming icon west of Port Phasmatys. Speak to Lyra at the allotments, selecting the (Charm) option until she requests that you grow some onions. Then, agree to her offer without using the (Charm) option.

Rake an allotment and pour the bucket of compost or super compost. Plant some onion seeds in the allotment, water the plantation every turn, and cure disease if necessary. Note that if you have fully grown Marigolds planted in the nearby flower patch, you do not need to worry about the onions becoming diseased, and you can head directly to the next step ("Perhaps I should check the onions that I planted for Lyra..." will appear during the quest). If not, you have to wait 40 minutes for the onions to grow. When the onions are fully grown, make sure you have two open inventory slots. NOTE: Do not harvest the onions otherwise you will need to grow them again. (if you do not have two open slots the chat options will not change!) and speak to Lyra again. She will give you three yellow orchid seeds and three pink orchid seeds.

This is a good time to head back to the Queen to plant your rose seeds and white tree sapling. Grab a rake, seed dibber, spade, and two buckets of compost or supercompost. Fill the stone pots for the orchids with the compost. Note that no other plants need compost.

Kragen, between Hemenster and Ardougne
Items needed for this section: Ring of charos (a) equipped, three cabbage seeds, a bucket of compost / super compost, a rake, a seed dibber, and a watering can. It's also recommended to bring some plant cure or about 100 coins, if you do not already have some Rosemary planted in the nearby flower patch.

Once again, rosemary seeds are strongly recommended for this part of the quest.

Go to the farming patch just north of East Ardougne, accessible by Camelot teleport, then walking south, or even better, fairy ring BLR, which teleports you to the Legend's Guild, then walking north-west to the patch. Players can also use a Skills necklace to teleport to the Fishing Guild, just a bit north of the patch. A direct teleport is provided by the Ardougne Cloak 2 or 3, and of course the Ardougne teleport (requiring 51 magic). Speak to Kragen at the allotments, selecting the (Charm) option until he requests that you grow some cabbages. Then, agree to his offer without using the (Charm) option.

Rake an allotment, and pour in the bucket of compost or super compost. Plant some cabbages in the allotment, water the plants every turn, and cure disease if necessary. Note that if you have fully grown Rosemary planted in the nearby flower patch, you do not need to worry about the cabbages becoming diseased, and can continue to the next part of the quest. If you did not plant rosemary, you have to wait for them to grow to ensure they do not die.

Elstan, south-east of Falador
Items needed for this section: Ring of charos (a) equipped, marigold seed, a bucket of compost/super compost, a rake, a seed dibber, plant cure, a spade and a watering can.

NOTE: The easiest way to reach Elstan is to teleport via Explorer's Ring and then walk directly north of the cabbage patch. You can now use your Clan vexillum, that is if you're in a clan, to teleport to the clan camp and walk East to the Allotment by Elstan.

Go to the allotments between Falador and Draynor Village, and talk to the gardener Elstan. Ask about Delphinium seeds. Select the (Charm) option, and he will ask you to plant some marigold. Charm him until the actual request, when you should not use the charm option.

Plant a marigold seed in the nearby flower patch, and grow it. In exchange for the marigold, Elstan will hand over the delphinium seeds. If you give him an ordinary marigold you got before the quest, he will tell you he hasn't seen you grow it and you won't get the seeds. Also, if you grow the marigold before talking to him, he will say that he did not see it growing and you must do it again.

Now is a good time to head back to Lyra's onions if you used marigolds and left them. If you spent more than forty minutes since Kragen and used rosemary, you can go back to him as well. If not, you can do so after attending to Bernald.

Bernald, Burthorpe
Items needed for this section: Ring of charos (a) equipped, Rune essence (pure essence will also work), two plant cure potions, a hammer or a chisel, and a pestle and mortar.

Burthorpe is easiest reached via the games necklace or the combat bracelet, or house teleport if you have a house in Taverley.

Travel to the Toad and Chicken bar in Burthorpe, and enter the fenced garden beside it. Talk to Bernald, selecting the (Charm) options when necessary. He will tell you that his vines are dying and needs a cure. Use one plant cure on the diseased grapevines, but it won't work. Talk to Bernald again, and he will instruct you to find Alain at Taverley.

Go to the tree patch at Taverley (just south of the gate dividing the P2P-only area and the F2P area), and speak to Alain about strong plant cures. Do not select the charm option with him. He will provide a method of adding some rune essence dust into the plant cure to enhance its power.

Use a hammer or chisel on a rune essence or pure essence to crush the stone into rune shards, and then use the pestle and mortar on the shards to make some rune dust. Use the dust with the remaining plant cure potion to get the strong plant cure (This step can only work after talking to Alain!). Bring the potion back to Burthorpe, and use it on the diseased vines. The grapevines will now be cured.

Talk to Bernald, and he will give you some Burthorpe vine seeds.

Gardening
Once you have the seeds, you must plant them in the Queen's garden. As previously noted, the patches must be raked and a seed dibber used to plant the seeds, as well as a spade to transfer the white tree. Water is not needed for any of the plants, compost needed only to fill the stone pots for the two orchid seeds. The plants will not take long to grow, try to plant the white tree first, so once finished planting you may tend to the statues.

Getting the statues
After planting everything, talk to Queen Ellamaria and ask about getting the statues. She provides a trolley with which to push or pull the statues.

When there is a statue on the trolley, you can choose to "push" or "pull" the trolley, causing the trolley to move 1 square away or toward you, respectively. The option "big push" allows the trolley to move several squares away from you.

Teleports are recommended to get to the statues' original places.

Statue of a former King, Lumbridge
Walk or teleport to Lumbridge, and then walk out of the castle gate. Examine both statues just outside the gate, and use the trolley on the one described as the statue of a "former King" (the southern statue).

Push or pull the trolley across the bridge directly outside and to the east of the castle. Note that for both statues, there is a right click option 'big push' that may significantly speed up the trip. Once the trolley is on the other side of the River Lum the scene will immediately change to the north backyard of Varrock palace. Push or pull the trolley to the east, and then south, into the Queen's garden. Don't take your time with this: If you chat along the way and otherwise take too long, you will receive a message saying, "The guards have recaptured the statue of a king, and placed it back in Lumbridge."

Move the statue to the garden where you planted the seeds, move the statue in front of the statue slot then place it. When the trolley is pushed beside the spot, use the "place" option to place the statue, and the trolley will return to your inventory automatically.

The statues will occasionally get stuck in the drain on the castle wall near the trellis.

Statue of Saradomin
Walk or teleport to Falador. The statue is in the main square just south of the north gate. The Falador Teleport brings you right next to the statue. Use the trolley on the statue, and a quirky cutscene will play, depicting the guards being killed by a fake player. You can now leave with the statue without being harassed by guards. (Note that there are still guards standing at the Falador gate.)

After the cutscene, move the trolley out of Falador as soon as possible. If you take too long, the guards will discover the statue has been stolen (you will get a message saying, "The guards have recaptured the statue of Saradomin, and placed it back in Falador") and you will have to start over.

Once the trolley is out of Falador the scene will immediately change to the north backyard of Varrock palace. Again, push or pull the trolley to the east, and then south, into the Queen's garden. Place the statue in the central empty plinth.

Conclusion
After all patches are fully grown and the statues are in place, talk to the Queen and she will ask you to get King Roald. Go to the King and talk to him, selecting the [Charm] options whenever possible (If you aren't wearing the Ring of Charos, you and King Roald will have a quite funny conversation). Have him follow you into the garden. After an amusing cut scene, the quest will end and the Queen will reward you.



Reward

 * 2 quest points
 * 5,000 Farming experience
 * An activated ring of charos, which is used to charm various NPCs to pay less for certain services, or get choices that are otherwise unavailable.
 * 1 apple seed
 * 1 acorn
 * 5 guam seeds
 * 4 doses of supercompost potion, each can be used in a compost bin to turn compost into super compost.
 * After the quest you can visit the garden and pick fruit from the White Tree. Each fruit restores about 17% run energy and gives 12 Farming experience when picked. You must ask Ellamaria "Can I use this garden for my own farming" before you can pick fruit from the White Tree.
 * Note: You do not have to finish the quest to use the ring of charos(a). You can use it after you get it activated by the Wise Old Man.
 * After the quest is complete, your farmed plants will remain there and you can harvest for more XP.

Required for completing
Completion of Garden of Tranquillity is required for the following:
 * Defender of Varrock
 * You need to get your Ring of charos enchanted by the Wise Old Man for completing the following:
 * Medium Falador Tasks
 * Medium Fremennik Province Tasks
 * For total completion of Missing My Mummy
 * Swan Song
 * Medium Varrock Tasks

Trivia
Garden of Tranquility
 * If you read through the dialogue with Elstan and Lyra you will see several hints toward Elstan becoming one of the poor, young farmers lured by Lyra's feminine charm to be used as a blood tithe to protect themselves from the Vampyres. When getting the marigolds for Elstan he will say they are to impress a beautiful, young woman named Lyra from Morytania, while when convincing Lyra to give away her secret she says that to protect her mother, Alice, and herself from the Vampyres she would go to other lands and trick farmers into coming to Morytania before being hauled away as a blood tithe
 * This quest contains many references to the Lord of the Rings.
 * During the Burthorpe vine part of the quest, if you charm Alain too much, Alain will exclaim that you are trying to brainwash him, to which you will respond to by saying "It only works on the weak minded," a quote from Lord of the Rings. He then says "It is you who are weak minded, &lt;name&gt;. If you use the ring too much, it could lead to your downfall." This is an obvious reference to J. R. R. Tolkien's Lord of the Rings when Gandalf warns Frodo against using the One Ring. It could also possibly be a reference to the ring's original owner, Charos, whose use of the ring led to his eventual death.
 * The reference to the dying white tree at the top of the mountain may be a reference to the White Tree found in J. R. R. Tolkien's Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King.
 * Throwing the ring into the well might also be a reference to The Lord of the Rings.
 * During the scene with the two guards of Falador when PKMaster0036 approaches them, Bob tells Billy to stay steady because he is a guard of Falador. This is in reference to The Lord of the Rings, when Gandalf tells the soldiers of Gondor to stay steady because they are soldiers of Gondor, when the enemy are about to break down their gate.
 * Upon completion of the quest, your Adventurer's Log will say "Queen Ellamaria isn't a particularly friendly woman, but I think she's delighted with the garden I made for her."
 * In the cutscene near the end of the quest, the Queen slaps the King and hits a "10". It also can hit no damage, even though the cutscene still shows him still getting hit.
 * The Queen calls her husband Rollie.
 * The King calls his wife pumpkin.
 * You do not get any Farming experience from planting any seeds in the Queen's garden; however, you do get experience from weeding the patches.
 * When the Queen asks you to help, one of your choices to answer her that you'd rather throw yourself off of a pier, and when you go to the Wise Old Man, he says you'd be better off throwing yourself off of the shortest pier you can find and the fastest run you can do.
 * After the quest is over, the statues that you took are replaced by plinths.
 * One of the answers for the 4th question the Wise Old Man asks you is "Just put on the silly helmet and jump into the cannon," this is a reference to the quest Between a Rock..., where you have to do just that. (The question itself is also a reference to the same quest)
 * The guards during the scene when you take the statue from Falador are named Billy, a guard of Falador, and Bob, another guard of Falador; which is a very generic name for people.
 * During the Falador statue cutscene, the gates to Falador are the pre-update gates, and different to the ones currently in the game (this has been fixed).
 * The guards do emotes with their swords and shields, but that is unavailable to players.
 * The Destroy option was introduced with this quest.
 * During the diplomacy test, the question about goblins is a reference to Goblin Diplomacy.
 * When you're done planting cabbages for Kragen, if you ask him to look after them, he will respond with: 'I can't believe you're asking me to do that! I asked you to grow some cabbages for me, not for me to look after them for you! No, I won't look after them!'
 * When you're done planting onions for Lyra, if you ask her to look after them, she will respond with: 'I can't believe you're asking me to do that! I asked you to grow some onions for me, not for me to look after them for you! No, I won't look after them!'
 * If you use the trolley on the statue of the queen in Lumbridge your character will say "I'm supposed to be getting a statue of a KING from Lumbridge. I'm no expert, but that looks like a QUEEN to me."
 * When talking to Lyra she mentions how she would court men to come to Morytania where she would offer them as a sacrifice to the vampyres, when talking to Elstan he mentions how he is courting her and intend to take her a bunch of marigolds.
 * Lyra's story about going to markets and luring men to come to Morytania might be a reference to the 1973 film, The Wicker Man.
 * When showing King Roald the new garden, Roald's crown in the chat interface changes shape to look like the queen's crown while his character's crown stays the same. This bug has not yet been fixed.
 * Nothing interesting happens when the player attempts to use the trolley on the statue of Saradomin in the Falador park.
 * When you try to put something on the table, the queen gets angry and says: "Leave one's table alone, peasant!"
 * Furthermore, if you try to put something on the table in a Free-To-Play World, the dialogue will still occur even though the queen is not present.
 * After completing the quest, if you talk to Juna, your character will say, "...So the garden at Varrock palace is all my work!" to which she replies, "It is good that you can take time from slaying and adventuring to grow a beautiful garden."
 * It is possible to get a Strange rock from planting the seeds in the queen's garden.
 * During the Falador cutscene, upon examining the character who kills the knights, it will say "A master of the Wilderness." In addition, the Wise Old Man talks about meeting PKMaster0036 in the Wilderness. This was even the case during the time in which players could not kill each other in the Wilderness.
 * During the conversation with Alain, he mentions that you need a force (from rune/pure essence) added to the plant cure, to which your character knows of the "force" that is needed. However, it would be impossible to do so if you character did not complete Rune Mysteries.
 * The new Dwarven army axe can be used to make the Rune essence shards, as it counts as a hammer and a chisel. This is can be obtained from Moe the Miner near the south-west mining site near Varrock.