A Blooming Mess

"Emily, you must go to Maithwaite and collect flowers for the new window-boxes..." "Flowers! How lovely, I know all about flowers. I know that buttercups are yellow..." "Emily!"

- Sir Topham Hatt giving orders to chatterbox Emily

A Blooming Mess is the twelfth episode of the thirteenth season.

Plot
Knapford Station is being redecorated. When Mavis does not say hello, Emily assumes she is sad and chuffs to the quarry to cheer her up with some of the new flowers, only to cause Edward and Thomas to crash. Mavis tells Emily that to make her happy she would like the mess tidied up and Emily's load of flowers taken straight to Knapford.

Characters

 * Thomas
 * Edward
 * James
 * Toby
 * Emily
 * Mavis
 * Sir Topham Hatt
 * The Maithwaite stationmaster
 * The Knapford stationmaster
 * Henry (cameo)
 * Gordon (cameo)
 * Diesel (cameo)

Locations

 * Knapford
 * Tidmouth Sheds
 * Maithwaite
 * Sodor Slate Quarry

Trivia

 * The title could be a parody of Jason Mraz' song, A Beautiful Mess.
 * In Norway, this episode is called "A Blooming Chaos". In Germany it is named "The Flower Mess". In France, it is titled "Flowers for Mavis". The Polish title is "A Flower Mess". In Sweden, it is "Flower Time on Sodor". The Danish title is "A Beautiful Mess". In Finland it is called "Flower Mess". In Japan it is named "Flower and Emily".

Goofs

 * The shunter at the quarry should have known that uncoupling the flowers would cause confusion and delay.
 * The shunter, after Emily puffs off, looks as if he is guiding Thomas back to the hopper. Shouldn't he have been trying to stop Thomas from reversing and hitting the flatbed and Edward?
 * When Emily reverses, the driver and fireman are still looking forward.
 * Emily somehow turns around twice at the quarry.
 * How could Thomas bumping into the truck of flowers put his fire out?
 * Shouldn't the flowers have been ruined after Thomas and Edward biffed into them?
 * The narrator says that Mavis puffed into Knapford, but Mavis is a Diesel, and therefore cannot puff.
 * Mavis should not have stopped on the main line.
 * Brakevans should have been added to James, Thomas, Toby, and Emily's trains.
 * At the beginning of the episode, Henry should not have been able to pull into Knapford as the track he was on has a platform at the other end.