Gardenia

This article is about the Sinnoh Gym Leader. For the anime-exclusive town in Kanto where May competed in a contest, see Gardenia Town.

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Gardenia ナタネ Natane
"Master of Vivid Plant Pokémon"
[[File:File:ArtNatane.jpg|{{{size}}}]] Art from Diamond/Pearl
Age	20 (est. by Pokeani)
Gender	Female
Hometown	Eterna City
Region	Sinnoh
Trainer class	Gym Leader
Generation	IV
Games	Pokémon Diamond, Pearl, and Platinum
Leader of	Eterna Gym
Badge	Forest Badge
Animated debut	The Grass-Type is Always Greener!
English voice actor	Lara Star Rigores
Japanese voice actor	Chieko Honda

Gardenia (Japanese: ナタネ Natane) is the Gym Leader of Eterna City's Gym, known officially as the Eterna Gym. She hands out the Forest Badge to Trainers who defeat her. She specializes in Template:Type2 Pokémon.

In the anime

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Gardenia in the anime

Gardenia first appeared in The Grass-Type is Always Greener. In this episode, she had a short battle with Ash, revealing to him that the Eterna City Gym Leader specialized in Grass Pokémon but not that it is her yet. She sent out Cherubi first, though she soon recalled it. She then sent out her own Turtwig, which defeated both Ash's Turtwig and Staravia.

Gardenia has an obsession with Grass Pokémon to the extent that she did not appear to be taking Team Rocket seriously due to her fascination with James's Carnivine and Cacnea. But she seems to get over this problem in A Secret Sphere of Influence!, when she battled the Team Rocket without any hesitation by sending her Turtwig out. She also reveals her rank as a Gym Leader in this episode.

Gardenia had a Gym Battle with Ash in The Grass Menagerie!. She sent out her Cherubi, Turtwig, and Roserade. Ash's Turtwig went up against Cherubi first, but it was returned. Ash's Staravia defeated Cherubi. After Staravia was defeated by Gardenia's Turtwig, Ash sent his out. It resulted in Ash's Turtwig's victory. Roserade beat Ash's Turtwig with its Weather Ball, but later was defeated by Ash's Aipom's Swift and Focus Punch. Gardenia made use of the sunny weather to her advantage, such as increasing Cherubi's speed and allowing Roserade to launch fiery Weather Ball attacks. Despite this situation, Ash succeeded in defeating Gardenia and earning a Forest Badge.

She returned in Once There Were Greenfields when she took part in a double battle alongside James. After the battle, she offered to train his Cacnea and make it stronger.

She is voiced by 本多知恵子 Chieko Honda in Japanese version and by Lara Star Rigores in English.

Pokémon

This is a listing of Gardenia's known Pokémon in the anime:

Cherubi

Turtwig

Roserade

Training

Cacnea

Mentioned

Victreebel

Bellossom

Vileplume

• All of these Pokémon were mentioned when she wanted to trade one of them for James's Carnivine.

In the games

Gardenia uses Template:Type2 Pokémon in her battles. For defeating her, trainers receive the Forest Badge, TM86 (Grass Knot), and the ability to use Cut outside of battle. Gardenia likes to explore Eterna Forest. Unlike most Gym Leaders, challengers are required to beat all of her students to challenge her.

She appears in front of the Old Chateau, to warn the player of the mysterious stories of hauntings surrounding it. She hints at herself being afraid of ghosts.

Quotes

At the entrance of Gym's maze, when player enters
"At my Gym, no one gets to battle with the Gym Leader - me - until they've beaten all the other Trainers. I'll be waiting out in the back. Good luck, challenger!"

Before battle
"You kept me waiting! I'm Eterna's Gym Leader, Gardenia, the Grass-type master! When I first saw you, I was convinced you'd find your way to me. My hunch was right on the money. You have a winning aura about you. So, anyway, this will be fun. Let's have our battle."

After sending out last Pokémon
"It's not the end yet."

During battle
"Are you saying something? You think you have me cornered?"

When defeated
"Amazing! You're very good, aren't you?"

After being defeated
"I might've said it before, but you're really tough! Wasn't it hard for you to raise your Pokémon to be so good? I guess that's a measure of how much you love your Pokémon. In recognition of that, I proudly grant you this!"

"Yup! If there's one thing I can tell about you, it's this! You and your Pokémon are gonna get even tougher, and I mean seriously!"

In front of the Old Chateau (After National Dex)
"Hiya! Were you intrigued by the rumors going around, too? You know, people've been talking about the ghost Pokémon of the Old Chateau. I've been hearing rumors about sinister shadows, too. I should check it out myself, but going in there is... ...Well, you know, being that I'm a Gym Leader, I'm always busy. So, since I'm so busy, I can't go in. It's not because I'm s-scared! S-so, good luck with your investigation!"

In the manga

Pokémon Special

Gardenia meets the trio (Diamond, Pearl, Berlitz) for the first time at Old Chateau. She sent out a Roserade against Berlitz's Prinplup.

Pokémon

This listing is of Gardenia's Pokémon in the Pokémon Special manga.

Cherubi

Roserade

Pokémon DP

Hareta first met Gardenia in Eterna Forest, both mistaking the other to be part of Team Galactic. After resolving their misunderstanding and learning that Gardenia was Eterna City's Gym Leader, Hareta asked Gardenia for a Gym Battle but was promptly turned down, as Gardenia hadn't been impressed by Hareta's abilities so far. However after being attacked by Piplup she changed her mind and agreed to battle.

Pokémon

Cherubi

Turtwig

Roserade

Trivia

• Gardenia is the first Gym Leader in the Pokémon games to own a starter Pokémon.
• Gardenia is the second Gym Leader in the anime to receive a Pokémon from a main character. The first was Sabrina.
• Coincidently, there is a town in the anime named Gardenia Town.
• Gardenia is the only Gym Leader not to use the TM given out in the first battle on their Pokémon in the post-national dex rematch.
• In Platinum, her Cherubi had been replaced by a Cherrim, but is under leveled, as Cherubi evolves into Cherrim at level 25.

Names

Language	Name	Origin
Japanese	ナタネ (Natane)	Means Rapeseed.
English, Italian, Spanish	Gardenia	Taken from the flower Gardenia. It also contains the word garden.
French	Flo	From flore, flora.
German	Silvana	From silva, latin for forest.
Korean	유채 (Yuchae)	Means rape blossoms.
Chinese (Taiwan)	菜種 (Cài Zhǒng)	From 菜種 natane, Rapeseed.

External links

• Serebii.net Sinnoh Leaders Page
• Natane's Profile on Pokeani (Japanese)

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Gym Leaders of the Sinnoh region
Oreburgh Gym Roark	Eterna Gym Gardenia	Veilstone Gym Maylene	Pastoria Gym Crasher Wake
Hearthome Gym Fantina	Canalave Gym Byron	Snowpoint Gym Candice	Sunyshore Gym Volkner

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