Flowers can be planted around your town to make it look pretty and also attract insects. The six main types of flower are cosmos, lilies, pansies, roses, tulips and violets.

Carnations can only be obtained on mother’s day (10th May) and father’s day (21st June) in letters from your parents. Dandelions will appear in your town randomly, as will clovers.

Clovers can be pulled out like weeds and there is a chance of finding a four-leaved clover which brings good luck. The clover can be worn or placed as furniture in your house. If your town has a perfect status, the Jacob’s Ladder will grow in town.

Watering your flowers will prevent them from dying. Rain counts as watering your flowers and you can use flowers to re-grow worn out grass by planting the flowers on worn out grass and watering the flowers every day.

If you have lots of flowers, we recommend enacting the Beautiful Town ordinance.

Breeding Flowers¶

In addition to planting flowers you can cause two of the same type of flower (e.g. two roses) to breed by planting them next to each other (or diagonally to each other) and then watering them with the watering can.

If there is a space open next to each parent, there is a chance that a new flower will bloom there the next day. You can increase the likelihood of breeding flowers by planting flowers near a Jacob’s Ladder or burying fertiliser from Leif’s shop.

When breeding flowers, the new flower (offspring) will be the same colour as one of the parent flowers. E.g. if you breed two red cosmos, you will get another red cosmos or if you breed a yellow cosmos and white cosmos, you’ll get a yellow cosmos or white cosmos.

However, if you breed a certain combination of flowers, there’s a chance you’ll get a special colour. E.g. if you breed a red cosmos and a white cosmos, you can get a red cosmos, white cosmos or pink cosmos .

Furthermore, offspring will inherit the colour “traits” from their parents and while an offspring may look like one colour, if you breed it, it can count as one of two colours. E.g. from the above example, the offspring red cosmos can act as a red cosmos OR white cosmos when you breed it.

So while normally a red cosmos and a red cosmos will produce a red cosmos ONLY, if one of the red cosmos has a white cosmos parent, you can get a pink cosmos or white cosmos too!

This table below outlines the most useful combinations of breeding flowers.

Some flowers are rare and take a long time to breed (e.g. blue roses), so don’t be alarmed if you don’t get them straight away.

Once you’ve gotten two or more of the same colour and type of flower, don’t forget you can breed them together to easily get more (note that gold roses do not breed).

If you’re dead keen on breeding a particular flower (e.g. a blue rose), we recommend harvesting some original flowers from the Garden Centre or from Tortimer Island (by playing the flower-collecting mini-game) and using those as the parents.

If you breed together flowers of unknown origin, you’re more liable to get unwanted offspring, as you don’t know what colours “traits” they have.

Additionally, keep separate gardens for breeding flowers and plant your flowers in an alternating grid pattern (first row is 1010.. then second row is 0202… and repeat, where 1 is Flower 1, 2 is Flower 2 and 0 is an empty space).

This way, only the flowers that you want to breed will touch eachother (and thus be able to breed), further minimising unwanted offspring.