I'd say more like Kodachi: hobgoblin-ridden >nigh-on Marauder
Verbena.  Botany is a Life science...so it would fall >under their
specialty.

	The thing about Mage Spheres is that anyone can get good at any of them. 
 The reason I selected a Son of Ether is that I felt it would fit better with 
someone who creates roses as tools and weapons.  The Verbvina would tend to be a 
lot more respectful of Nature, while the Sons would enjoy making very strange 
plants.  (Like a plant with modified Nitrogen fixing organs that fill parts of 
the plant with Nitroglycerine