Posts by froglady

We do have cross-breeding. That's how we breed Jack O Lanterns to Pumpkins and Bleeding Hearts to Valentines Hearts and Christmas trees to Poinsettias and Marvel Ferns to Male Ferns to try to get more of the special event plants.
Are we suggesting that each cross-breeding have a new and marvelous fantasy plant issue from it instead of having to wait for special events? So that crossing a Tulip to a Geranium gets you New Plant #1 and crossing a Tulip to a Dahlia gets you New Plant #2? If my math is right just counting the 30 normal plants and not including any holiday/event plants, there would be 435 hybrid plants for which there would have to be sprites drawn for seeds, seedlings and adults. Then every time you add a new plant, instead of one new artwork set there would have to be (new number of plant species) sets drawn. Having to draw 31 new plant sprites just to add the next plant and 32 for the next plant (with creation of all 30 or 31 new hybrids) would definitely limit the number of new plants being released. I'm not a big fan of this.
Now, if you mean that you cross a Tulip with a Dahlia and have a chance to get either a Tulip or a Dahlia, that might be OK...though you could just go to the Wild Garden and catch a seed of whatever you want.
I think that the time and effort it would require to create over 400 fantasy plants and draw all those sprites could be better used adding some more real-life plants in lots of colors.

We have African violets, too. Saintpaulia, they are properly called. And they come in many different colors besides white.
Perhaps it would be good to remind folks to look at the proper scientific name of any species they wish to be added to be sure it isn't already on the site. Common names (especially as ours differ from the German to the English) are notoriously unreliable.
Zantedeschia alone can be called Arum lilies (from their new genus), Calla lilies (from their old genus), Easter lilies or Lily of the Nile. But the true six-part Lilium lily can also be called Easter lily, and in my home region Narcissus is known as Easter lily (don't ask me why). And Lily of the Nile is also the common name for Agapanthus, a fleshy plant that bears large round heads of small blue or white flowers on long stalks in mid to late summer. But Agapanthus isn't a lily at all, nor is it native to the Nile River region.
No wonder we're all confused about which plant is called what. O.o

No, as most event plants (Valentines Hearts, Christmas Trees, Christmas Star, St. Patty's, Lucky Clover, both ferns, etc.) they have a limited breeding period each year.

Yes, once a plant is in your Compendium you can give it away, trash it, abandon it....it will still be in your Compendium even if you no longer have it. I understand that you didn't really have it in the first place, but once it's marked it never unmarks (unless Exterminans can do it for you).

Yes, they are called "cherries" in English, too. The red fruit inside of which is the seed or "bean".
Civet cats used to be slaughtered for the perfume trade (to get their anal glands for the perfume essence). So women used to smell of civet's behinds, now we drink coffee that comes from there. Seems a shame for the animal to die for either purpose, just to get money. Animals slaughtered for food that give us other products (leather from cows, pigs and sheep, for example) is different, somehow.

The Kopi Luwak coffee got more famous here in the U.S. after the movie "Bucket List" with Jack Nicholson and Morgan Freeman. The rich man in the movie drinks it because "it's the best" (read: most expensive). The poor man educates him on where the coffee comes from. It's pretty funny. Funnier because it's true.

Dellovia--We are all guessing what the St. Patrick's day seed will grow into. The first ones should mature from stout pints to whatever they become this weekend. Then we shall all know. Till then is fun to guess. It is one of the favorite pastimes on these boards every time a holiday comes or a new permanent plant is found in the wild garden.

I was thinking of the pot of gold with a rainbow coming down into it. But I'll settle for the stout--always love me some Guinness. Makes me want to step over to the neighborhood pub for a black-and-tan. Mmmm.

It looks like one of those custom M&M's to me, LOL. I have a feeling that whatever hatches out will be our surprise. Perhaps the hatchling will be a decoration for our greenhouses instead of a flower. I'm thinking of leprechauns and their usual association. *grin*

For some reason I've gotten that virus scanner warning off and on since January. Mine says the site is involved with scams or illegal activities. I doubt that. It just pops up randomly. Sometimes I go days and don't see it, other days I can't get on the site at all. Annoying.

Vielen dank, d'agelline. My instructor was a German lady who left her hometown right after WWII when it became part of Poland instead. We took equivalent of 2 year's German in one summer (total immersion 4 hours a day, meaning we spoke only German in class). I have not really practiced it since, and not at all after 1997 when I moved to the West Coast...not too many people speak German in California (quite a few in West Virginia coal mining country where I'm from originally). I'm thinking of getting hold of a course like Rosetta Stone or similar and brushing up my skills. German could be a handy language for a computer programmer.

I live in beautiful Silicon Valley, California. Lovely spot near the San Francisco Bay, totally ruined by being paved over with house plantations everywhere (well, everywhere there's not headquarters for Google, Yahoo, Adobe, Maxtor, HP, Apple, Cisco, ebay, Dell, etc etc etc). I am a nuclear medicine technologist, and am going to college online to get a degree in computer programming. I took German in college, but don't remember too much, unfortunately (30 years ago my last lesson).

Ich komme aus Silicon Valley, California. Ich spreche nur ein bisschen Deutsch, leider. Ich bin eine Nuklearmedizin Technekerin. Ich wunschte ich sprechte mehr Deutsch. That's about the extent of my German abilities without using a translator. Es tut mir leid.

Yes, I thought that odd, too. Seems that the special plants have creeping vines that grab onto empty pots and heave the plants over into them as soon as they are empty, leaving the special plants' pots to disappear as by magic. I would indeed be wonderful if the special plants stayed put in their own special pots and left our "regular" empty pots alone!

http://flowergame.net/flowers/gift/2…0599350e793750f

I hope someone can get the tulip moving again before this link expires. It's driving me crazy--I think it's suffering from cabin fever from being in one place too long!!

I have now traveled to Silicon Valley and had a tour of the computer companies' gardens. I prettied up Google and Yahoo and ebay and...now I'm ready for somewhere with a bit less concrete.
http://flowergame.net/flowers/gift/2…8c68b05c3aac81e

When I play, my browser puts the points out of sight above the visible game window, so it took me forever to win the first few times I played, as I was enthusiastically grabbing all the objects, including the twigs/switches. Once I figured out where the points were, I realized I needed 100 points. Then I went about discovering what gave me the most, and it seemed that ornaments and gifts were the ticket. It took me until today to realize the twigs/switches actually SUBTRACT points. Ah, I am dim sometimes.

The only sorting choices I've seen are the dropdown choices (by species, color, oldest first, newest first) on the settings page where you check the quicksort tickbox. If the plants are meant to drag and drop, that's great, but I've never been able to do it.