Hello, gardeners! It's Emma. I've been busy out here in Veta Lake, and the garden has changed quite a bit since you last stopped by. Pull up a stool and let me show you around.
Come see me every day
I keep the seeds myself now instead of leaving them on the Seedlings shelves, so the garden is where you'll get them.
- A daily quest. Once a day I'll offer you three seeds, sorted from Common to Showpiece. Pick whichever tier suits you, grow it in any plot, and bring me the harvest. The plant comes straight to me, and you walk away with sP and a seed packet for your trouble.
- A daily seed packet. I also bundle one packet a day, in three sizes: Garden Variety (5 seeds), Mixed Bag (4 seeds, weighted toward the middle), and Connoisseur (3 seeds, weighted toward the rare end). A bigger budget leans the odds toward rarer seeds, and you never quite know what you'll open. That's half the fun of it.
One note, since a few of you have asked: seeds have left the Seedlings shelves for good. The tools, soil, cans, and gnomes are all still in the shop. Only the seeds moved over to me, through the quest and the packet.
New seeds that surprise you
Some of the new seeds in those packets don't grow into one fixed plant. The same seed can come up a different bloom each time you plant it.
Sow a packet of Stellar Bloom Seeds and you might raise a [[Galactic Stellar Bloom]] one season and a [[Rubicund Stellar Bloom]] the next. Those are only two of the five it knows how to become. Fairy Ringlet Seeds are the same way: [[Fiery Fairy Ringlets]] today, [[Pink Fairy Ringlets]] tomorrow. Plant them more than once and see what you get.
Room to grow
You can tend up to 10 plots now. Every harvest earns garden XP, and each level you reach opens more land for you. I've got plans to make even more available in the future, so keep at it.
Pick your spot, and move it if you change your mind
When you start a garden you choose where it grows, and each place has its own character. The lake is gentle and reliable, Shadowglen's soil is dark and strangely fertile, the Omen Islands are for gardeners who like a little adventure. If you outgrow your spot, you can repot the whole garden somewhere new from your garden settings whenever you like.
Open your gate
Flip your garden public in settings and it joins the Pollinator's Hub, the directory I keep of everyone's plots. Once you're listed, a few good things happen:
- Visitors help your plants grow. Anyone who stops by gives your garden a small boost.
- Birds and bugs come calling. Little visitors flutter through public gardens now. You can't catch them out here yet, so for now they're just nice to have around.
- Show your garden on the forums. Drop
[garden=yourusername]into a post to show a card of your plot, and anyone reading can water your thirsty plants right from there.
You can wander other people's gardens, too. The Hub sorts by location and by which critters are visiting which plots today, so it's a pleasant walk even when you're not growing anything yourself.
A journal of everything you grow
Every plant you raise now gets written down in your Growth Journal. It shows the whole catalog, with the ones you've grown lit up and the ones you haven't waiting as silhouettes, and your totals up at the top. Filter by what you've grown, search by name, and watch it fill in over the seasons.
That's the tour! Come find me at the garden when you've got a moment. I always have seeds, and I'd love to see what you grow.
