Heya! Howdy! Hi! :) I've got 3 suggestions for you today regarding the gardens as it's been a while and I feel like it's been overlooked for some time.

1. I'd like to see are the bulbs and seeds that were obtained and planted during the Centropolis Green Project. Could they be brought back to life in the garden or Centrolopolis Garden?

2. I'd like to see these seeds and bulbs grow into their associated plant and if edible, turned into a recipe that can be made with Fantine or Asmodeus Genetech Lab depending on the seeds/plant. Recipe suggestions could be Rose Shortbread Cookies, Dandelion and Honey Marshmallows or Underground Burdock and Pomegranate Chocolate Cake for Fantine // Citrus, Berries, Apples, Roses, White tea (any tea) or herbal mix for Asmodeus Genetech Lab as an elixir.

3. Would love to see seasonal bulbs/seeds including those that are poisonous or even rare like those that only bloom under the moon (could be grown similarly to how the Glade or Coda Caves time frame works).

I'd love to see the seeds we have from the green project be of use, if possible, if not I'd love to see a new batch of seeds available.

I would adore any garden related thing! Achievements, incentives to use the seeds and their grown forms! Anything would be fun. I know we have bouquets during vesnali but i agree with the OP that some sort of use or inclusion of the garden would be such a nice thing and one I would enjoy.

oh yes, achievements would be awesome as well! I don't think we have anything of the sort and if so they're likely legacy achievements. Thank you for your input! :D

Bumping cuz I think this idea needs some more love and i am sure others would be interested in garden achievments!

I think this is a great concept and would love to see it implemented, if that's something feasible!

i would love to see more features relating to gardening, whether through the regular gardens or the community garden—although, it's kind of confusing to have two separate gardening features in two separate world locations. could they be combined somehow? or differentiated even further? either way it's so sad to have a whole community garden just sitting there with no functionality or purpose beyond the event that happened checks notes ELEVEN YEARS AGO????

maybe the veta gardens are still where we plant our own seeds, while the centropolis garden would just have different things growing there at different times based on seasons or holiday? maybe we could still donate seeds/bulbs, and whatever gets the largest quantity donated is what ends up growing next? could work as a bit of an sP sink, i guess. i'd just like to see some level of actual community interactability since it's, you know, a community garden.

and then being able to use those things in food & drink recipes, like growing and brewing our own tea, would be fun.

what kind of garden achievements? I'd love to have some for various seasons, holidays, etc. Even being able to pollinate a friend's garden would be cool in a way.

thank you for your input and would love to know what you'd like to see around the garden(s)!

yes, it's been too long and having seeds we can't use in the community garden at least is sad. Wish it could be utilized beyond the time we used it. Honestly, I thought we could still plant those event seeds there, and when I realized we could not I felt gypped.

I like your idea on utilizing the community garden for holidays/seasons. An sP sink could be fun. Hm. Perhaps a stall similar to the farmer's market could take place in the community garden. If we have a garden again for the community, it would be cool to pollinate or water friends or other plants.

I agree having two is a little confusing, and it would be wonderful if the community garden was some group effort that we could use items like watering cans, fertilizer items, etc to help grow a giant flower that gave some holiday related perks. (Nod to Pikmin Bloom there. I love that community flower planting vibe the game has!) Donating the various insects and butterflies for pollination that we get from doing bug hunt? Maybe some perk for finding extra rare bugs during certain weeks of the year or birds if it is birding season that can only be found by doing tasks in the community garden? So many options!!

It would be nice if you could get achievements for growing X number of certain flowers. Planting certain flowers during different months. Maybe each month has a different, random flower that grows more quickly or gives more sP when you harvest it? Maybe some of the achiements could based on rarity or color or type or something or just total number planted and total number harvested. Maybe if it's veggies being grown they could be donated to Charity for her cause and you could get achievement for that.

I'd like it if we could water friends' flowers and get acheivements for helping out in the community garden. Maybe even donating the grown flowers to an NPC? It could be a good use for some of these garden related things that get released that are so adorable but not really used for anything and there's a lot of different things that could be done. I'll likely have more ideas as soon as I click post. hehe

I would absolutely love to drown my favorite NPCs in flowers. Seeing as how it rains in different lands on Mondays to indicate the increased chance of meeting Tempest, maybe Mondays could be the days when we don't need to water our gardens?

Great idea! With it being a public garden, I'd also love it if you were able to water other people's seeds. You could even have a chance at getting those Centropolis Green Project seeds with every extra plant watered.

growing achievements would be cool for plants, even a specific type such as herbs, spices, trees, flowers. 💭 Timing could be interesting all around like real gardening.

A sample of garden achievement suggestions: Life's a Garden Dig It - Grow 10 plants in your garden. I Wet My Plants - Water 20 plants in your garden. Don't Carrot All - Plant X amount of carrot varieties in your friend's garden.

I do like the idea of rarity, color, variety achievements. The donation to Charity would be nice, like a community food drive revamp!

I was also thinking it would be cool to maybe utilize the farmer's market for trades or selling, similar to Recycle Beast. Could be available only during Fall, Spring and early Summer months.

I do think we could even expand our bouquet options.

oh that's a very lovely idea! Is it always raining on Mondays? I haven't been around in a while, so I don't remember.

thank you, and I do love the idea of being able to obtain the seeds from the community garden event that took place over a decade.

Anything to expand the garden works for me. Could even be used to expand it into having multiple slots or some kind of mechanic for fertilizer to increase output. Honestly, I wouldn't mind a whole home and garden expansion, give use to all of the furniture and other misc items.

Fun achievment name ideas!

And yeah, so many different ways to use up things that are already around on the site! Maybe if your pet reads ALL the garden books you can get random, seed growing perks. Like a speed perk. You could buy things like the shop discount coupons for auto watering for x amount of time or such for sP sinks.

hmm. Now I wanna kind of see what seeds there are and think of more fun things.

thank you!

Yes, there are so many items we could put to use in one way or another.

I think this would be a cool idea, and it'd give the seeds from the Esther community garden an alternate use, instead of just as a treasure item since that particular event ended.

The wonderful farming aspect of harvesting, watering, achievements etc like previous comments sounds great! Mmmmm.

Maybe some new plants could be stat boosters or healer type like +15,+30, etc. Idk just throwing out ideas^^;

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Thanks everyone for your feedback, life got a little hectic but I'm back and happy to see others in full support and offering suggestions.

There are so many things that could be created with gardening in mind. I fully support. But I hope it stays smaller than the battle system. That might be little overwhelming.