Garden

For information on flowers planted in the garden, see Garden Flower.

The garden is a place in the map where the player can grow flowers.

## Overview

The garden can be found next to the player's nest, at the west. It has 6 plots in which players can grow flowers, but only two of them are free. The other 4 garden plots can be unlocked by 400  each one.

The garden is available since the beginning of the game, but it doesn't really get a use until the player starts collecting flower seeds. These can be found in the digging patches. Digging patches are structures that appear in random locations across the map, one at a time, like acorns. But unlike these, they can be seen in the full map through a shovel icon . For digging, it's required to build the water storage chamber by 1000  and 100 . This unlocks the digging ability and 5 seeds that can be found in these digging patches. The rest of the seeds are unlocked by upgrading the water storage chamber from level 6 up.

## Growing flowers

### Digging for seeds

    Flower seeds can be found by digging in a digging patch. The player can dig seeds by walking over the digging patch and pressing the "Dig" button . The times one can dig are limited: every day, all players receive two digging opportunities at reset, then watching an ad unlocks a third digging opportunity during the same day. The next digging opportunities cost gems, and the cost doubles with each purchase starting at 50, the same way it does with the vinegaroon.

    By digging, the player obtains a seed, which can be seen in a message appearing on screen with its picture. Players can also see their seeds in the garden inventory, accessed through the Garden menu . On the Inventory tab, players can see what seeds they have and see their name, scientific name and description, which explains the effect they give, as well as discard the seeds they don't want.

### Planting a seed

A seed can be planted by walking above a garden plot and pressing the "Plant" button . This opens the player's inventory, but only showing the seeds and the same info of the seeds. Here the player can select the seed to be planted, and press the  button at the bottom right, spending 100  in the process.

### Growing the flower

    After the seed is planted, it will need watering to start growing. To water a seed, the player must walk over the garden plot with the seed and press the button with a watering can , which also says the amount of water needed. All the five flowers unlocked at level 1 of water storage chamber require 50  per watering, the flowers unlocked at level 6 require 500  per watering and the flowers unlocked at level 10 require 1500  per watering.

Then, the plant takes 30 minutes to grow into a sprout, which requires watering again, with the same process and cost. After this second watering, the plant will take another 30 minutes before the flower is totally growth.

### Harvesting the flower

The final step is to harvest the fully growth flower. This is done by the player ant walking over the garden plot and pressing the "Harvest" button . The flower is collected and message appears on screen with its picture.

The flower then can be seen in the Inventory, and includes the same information as the seed plus additional info, regarding its duration or number of uses.

### Using flowers

    Flowers with temporary effects can be "activated", while others have one-time uses and appear as buttons at multiple locations on the game menus and interfaces. Only two temporary flowers can be active at a time, and they must be different species. The player can discard an activated flower, which will remove the effect.

## Garden menu

### Inventory

This tab allows players to see and manage their seeds and flowers. Here players can discard seeds and flowers they don't want, and activate flowers.

All seeds are stackable by species. Scarlet sage flower is also stackable, but the rest of the flowers are not, taking one slot each one. All flower seeds and flowers are sorted in the same exact order, which is: marigold, black hollyhock, green zinnia, blue columbine, scarlet sage, purple coneflower, white snakeroot, tickseed, silver dollar. Seeds go first, then flowers.

The "digging opportunities" can also be seen in this tab, at the top right corner, as well as the button to get more digging opportunities by watching an ad or using gems, which is located below the active flowers with a button .

### Garden

This tab has a full view of the garden, and is used to unlock garden plots by using gems . The garden view is live, which means the player can see anything that happens in it, including weather, ants walking through, creatures, etc.

### Pets

This tab allows the player to see and manage pet aphids. The tab allows players to see the information about the pet aphids they have, which includes their level in the respective slot, and the bonuses they have in the section below, as well as the level up bar that is filled by feeding the pet aphid with scarlet sage flowers. Feeding the aphid can also be done through this tab, as selecting an aphid will activate a button that contains the scarlet sage flowers that there are in the inventory, and pressing that button will feed the aphid with one flower. 20 flowers are required to level up the pet aphid from level 1 to level 2.

Selecting an aphid also activates the "Call" button below the flower, which will activate the bonuses of the pet aphid, and will make it follow the player everywhere, including battles, co-op mode, and every other location. While the pet aphid is called, it can't be selected to see their bonuses info, it can't be fed nor be leveled up. The player can "Uncall" a pet, by pressing the little red X button next to the aphid icon in this tab. Pet aphids can also be discarded if players don't want them.