Foraging and flowers
Hunting through the long grass for seed, and growing flowers round your place.
Flower seed is something you find for yourself, out in the long grass, and every kind grows in its own sort of country. Once you have a few plants going you can grow more from them, so the looking is worth it.
Foraging#
Tap a patch of long grass and choose Forage. You get down and rummage through it for a few seconds. Most of the time there's nothing worth keeping, so don't expect a find every go. Tall grass hides more than short grass does, and the better your Farming the more you spot, up to 18% more often at the top. About one find in 8 is a crop seed rather than a flower's.
Whatever you find, you trample the grass flat. That spot turns to short grass and grows long again in about 1.5 game days (2.3 h), so you can't stand in one place and keep at it. Work your way across a meadow instead.
Where to look#
What you find depends on the country round you. Sand nearby counts as the shore, water nearby as marsh, a few trees close by as the woods, and anywhere else is open meadow. The rarer flowers turn up almost anywhere, but only once you know what you're looking at.
| Flower | Where | Farming | Comes into flower |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ox-eye daisy | open meadow | 1 | about 8 hours |
| Lupine | open meadow | 1 | about 12 hours |
| Black-eyed Susan | open meadow | 1 | about 10 hours |
| Cornflower | open meadow | 3 | about 9 hours |
| Yarrow | open meadow | 3 | about 10 hours |
| Trillium | the edge of the woods | 1 | about 14 hours |
| Columbine | the edge of the woods | 3 | about 12 hours |
| Fireweed | the edge of the woods | 1 | about 10 hours |
| Foxglove | the edge of the woods | 6 | about 16 hours |
| Blue flag iris | wet ground by the water | 1 | about 12 hours |
| Marsh marigold | wet ground by the water | 1 | about 8 hours |
| Wild rose | a sandy shore | 1 | about 18 hours |
| Red poppy | almost anywhere | 10 | about 10 hours |
| Chamomile | almost anywhere | 15 | about 8 hours |
| Lavender | almost anywhere | 20 | about 20 hours |
Planting#
A flower won't take in long grass, the roots choke it. Plant it on bare dirt, cleared earth, a trimmed lawn, a tilled field, or best of all a garden bed. Tap the spot with seed in your pack and pick which one to put in.
It grows whether you're logged in or not, and shows a shoot, then leaves, then buds before it opens. Once it's in flower it carries up to 3 blooms at a time and grows another every 30 min.
Picking and digging up#
Tap a plant in flower and choose Pick flowers to take every bloom on it. About 35% of the time there's a seed in with them, which is how you spread your garden. The plant keeps flowering after you pick it.
If you want to move one, Dig it up. You get it back as seed, along with any blooms that were on it, and you can plant it somewhere else.
Cut flowers go in a vase on your table. Hold on to the rest, because they'll have more uses later on.
Like crops, your flowers are yours. Nobody else can pick them or dig them up unless you trust them.