Posts by froglady

Yes, and yours wasn't a one-off, I saw several whilst looking for bellflowers yesterday.

They are only available and breedable during Christmas. Perhaps the wiki people overlooked that because they are actual real plants and not the fantasy ones we also get at Christmas/New Year (trees, wreaths, fireworks...).

Still need 5 Audreys and 3 Stumps and the two more realistic-looking Jack-O-Lanterns (I had all of them at one time, the two I'm missing are the newest ones). I guess if I get 2 new varieties each year like I did this year it will take 1-2 years to get the Stumps and Jacks and 3 or 4 more to get the Audreys. If they don't add any more. Not a complaint, just an observation.

I got 4 Stumps and 4 Audreys. Two of each have grown up and I got one new one of each. The other four (two of each) sprouted yesterday morning, so we shall see. I was very far behind in Hallowe'en plants for some reason (were several added in just a year or two?), but I have almost all the Christmas/New Year ones, so that event will be far less frenetic for me (as well as usually being longer, if memory serves).

The sun shows clouds if you need to pick "make those clouds go away" from the pixie games. Or you can get sun from clicks. I just make sure I top up my sun at least once past "sunny" every day with the games to be sure.

I got 8 seeds, but I think it was just because I jumped on them right as soon as they started dropping. Someone starting even 8 hours later wouldn't get the second batch. My first four just matured and I got one of my missing Audreys and one of my missing Stumps. The other two I already had. My second round just sprouted, so we will see.

I need more tree stumps than anything else. Audreys next. I'm content with having a jack or two still missing at the end.

Yep, just came on about half an hour ago and saw them! Yippee!!

I've been popping in every couple of hours for the past 2 days, but still no Hallowe'en plants.

I imagine that the initial lineart is more costly than re-colored versions are, so perhaps we got two linearts now and will have more colors for each later (buying variants on the installment plan, essentially). There might also be frugailty in the face of Halloween for a new variant of one of those plants. I think the breeding might just not have gotten turned on. I believe there were other plants with the same problem in the past. Maybe it just slipped the mind with Halloween coming up. I'm going to have empty pots as soon as all my seedings grow. Have 4 empty seed slots right now. To get prepped for the Hallowe'en plants to start dropping. Going out of town for a week, anyway.

When I was here before I remember Halloween being near the actual date and lasting only a week or so. You can breed jack o lanterns, but you'll want to save room to get Audreys and Tree Stumps, too. I recommend getting what you can from the Wild Garden first thing, then breeding whatever you want as soon as the pots are empty and can accept seeds, as I believe (if I remember correctly) that bred seeds will continue to grow even after the Wild Garden drops are finished.

Edited to add: From last year's thread it seems they dropped from Oct 24-Nov 1. So it is short.

I was disappointed because they come in all colors in the real world, and to have only 2 so similar...perhaps there are more colors to come.

Texas bluebell #1116420 - Flowergame

Texas bluebell #1116431 - Flowergame

My compendium is complete with these two. Wish I could get the forum to accept the links to show the images. It's been 8 years since I made my signature and it seems things have changed (or I've forgotten).

For those who don't speak American English as a first language, a "hot potato" is something you have to get rid of as soon as possible (like a literal hot potato that's burning your bare hands). It could also be something that could get you into trouble. As a kid, we played a game called "hot potato", where kids stood in a circle and threw a beanbag as quickly as possible to anyone in the circle randomly. So you had the beanbag in your cupped hands and shoveled it to someone else, who had to shovel it off to someone else as soon as they caught it, etc. If you didn't catch it, you were out. Last one left wins.
So perhaps this slang is also common in other countries. And just perhaps you have to treat this as a "hot potato" and gift it, then having the next owner gift it, until it is passed around to a few others before coming back to someone who has owned it before, whereupon it becomes "baked". Worth a try, I guess.

Here's my best shot in my limited German:

Yes, I've found that the hare is the brown one (I remember it by thinking of brown hair). The rabbit is grey (like our wild cottontail rabbits). Bunny is any, including the snow bunny. They are both greyish-brown (the hare) or brownish-grey (the rabbit) instead of pure brown and pure grey, but the color is obviously different.

European Hare (brown hare):

Cottontail rabbit:

Sometimes people will drop a seed to make room for event plants, save the plant number and search it up to re-claim it if it's still not been adopted. Or if they accidentally breed too many and the seed drops they can find it by going to the parent plant and clicking its number from the "offspring". So it's not so mysterious how the same person found their seed again. Evidently they then decided they didn't want it. I have picked up plants that had been floating around in the Wild Garden for several months on more than one occasion. The older and more common the plant variety, the more likely it will not get snapped up by a lot of players.

Using the money you earned for your product is not necessarily a bad thing. No one says the money you give has to be used exclusively for the site and not the owner. I personally know a site owner who started her site in her teens, helped put herself through college with the profit after the site hosting, etc. bills were paid every month and is now out with a degree in computer programming, whereupon she re-coded the entire site and improved it by light-years. She did use the money for herself, but only after the site costs were paid, and she was very upfront on the terms and conditions page and the donations page that if the site ever went very long without getting enough donations to keep it open she would close it instead of drowning financially trying to keep it up. I respect that. It's honest and open. People who create and administer a website should get something for their time, but they need to run the site as a business. If your local restaurant can't make the rent because it's not making enough money, it has to shut down, not just get put into cold storage until the next need for money comes along, then re-opened to commit emotional blackmail on its customers once again.

Zwieback is a type of crispbread. It means "twice baked" in German, because that's how it's made. It's sort of like German biscotti, except it's usually the standard bread slice shape. So just look for something that looks like bread and you'll find it.

There are some site owners or coders or artists (or some who are all three) out there that you just know are gonna flake sooner or later. They change names and start new sites or take jobs on other sites, but sometimes you can still spot an art style or game ideas or game mechanics or even their forum post style. I can think of 3 coders and 4 artists who have faded away into oblivion leaving more than one site owner hanging (or forking over more money to someone else to re-do art on the site because the artist withdraws permission to use his/her work). And I can think of at least half a dozen site owners/admins who either never got their games out of pre-paid alpha (if they even launched alpha, or just took the money and disappeared, taking down the forum a couple months later) or have closed games serially after they became too much work. Usually they show up again in a couple months on another project. I'm not saying that Silver is one of them, but there are a lot of people out there who will go *poof* and not even tell you what's up. I don't mind a game closing if the owner is honest and open about it, or if it closes because the coder poofed and there's no way to fix their funky code and no new updates to keep players interested, but it really bothers me for people to duck and cover instead of owning up.