Tree Garden

## The Tree Garden

This garden grows in the branches of your Island tree. Regular plants cannot be planted here, but fruit trees, seasonal plants, dragon plants, ennobled plants, and other special plants can be.
It starts with 8 cleared spaces, precisely enough for 2 trees.

The tree garden can be unlocked when you reach level 11.

The garden comes infested with ants, big ants, and foliage in different colors and sizes. Most of the obstacles must be removed with either friendship hearts or water lilies, although a few can be removed with natural lights. When fully cleared, it has 106 plots. Generally, players plant trees here. Trees take up 4 plots (2x2), but it's impossible to use every available space in the tree garden for trees since the corners are not square and the rows of plots do not all divide evenly by 2. There's about enough space for 21 trees here if they're planted with maximum efficiency, leaving 22 spaces along the edges for seasonal plants and ennobled plants.

You will not see an icon indicating there is empty space in this garden, even if there are empty plots. This is because only special plants can be grown in this garden, and often you will not have enough special plants to fill it.

(feel free to send me maps of your tree garden with maximum trees planted here, as there might be room for one or two more if the space is used better than mine).

## Obstacles in the Tree Garden

Red small foliage removal costs either 20 water lilies or 1 friendship heartGreen small foliage removal costs either 60 water lilies or 2 friendship heartsYellow small foliage removal costs either 120 water lilies or 3 friendship heartsRed big foliage removal costs either 200 water lilies or 300 natural lightsGreen big foliage removal costs either 300 water lilies or 7 friendship heartsYellow big foliage removal costs either 350 water lilies or 9 friendship heartsDiligent ant removal costs either 250 water lilies or 8 friendship heartsBig ant removal costs either 500 water lilies or 20 friendship hearts
## Leveling up the Tree Garden

Unlike most gardens, the tree garden level is tied to your aqua garden level. Once you have brought your aqua garden to a new era, you'll have the option to upgrade the tree garden also. With this level up, your tree garden will give you a permanent +1 yield on plants. You will have to defeat a monster to achieve this upgrade.

## Visiting Tree Gardens

As with the cloud garden, you can prevent friends from visiting your tree garden (although the cloud garden is always unavailable to friends). Your tree garden defaults to hidden, so your friends will not be able to stop by to speed up your trees and admire your graftsmanship unless you change the settings.

Stop by your settings page to see if your tree garden is visible. Make sure to save the setting before closing the settings window.

## Friendship Hearts

What are friendship hearts, and how do you get them? There are three ways to get these illusive items.

1. Invite an IRL friend to the game (see Inviting Friends Via a Link in the friends page). If the friend follows your invite link and gets to level 10, you'll receive 4 friendship hearts. If the friend plants a big tree, you'll receive 10 friendship hearts.
2. Win friendship hearts as seasonal prizes. During a seasonal event (summer, fall, winter, spring), you may be able to earn a small number of friendship hearts by completing quests.
3. Win friendship hearts from the wheel of fortune. Every day you have a 1/12 chance of winning one friendship heart from the wheel of fortune. You may spend water lilies to purchase additional spins to improve your odds.

Friendship hearts are primarily used to remove obstacles from the tree garden, but they can also be used to purchase clothing and accessories in the hut. They cannot be directly purchased and are consequently very hard to get, so use them wisely when you do get them!

Although many players prioritize clearing their tree gardens with friendship hearts, some obstacles in other gardens can now be cleared with hearts as well. If you find yourself with a surplus of hearts after clearing your tree garden and purchasing all hut items, your hearts have not become useless: you may find a use for them the next time you bring one of your gardens into a new era.