Posts by froglady

Yes, it's always been separate. I know that because I remember having to sign up for it, which I did way after I joined Flowergame. Plus I know some people don't use their in-game name here, and there have been several posts in the past where folks forgot their forum username and password. If you've been a member for a while, you probably just don't remember having to sign up for the forum as a separate site.

Yes, the furniture will be in your inventory at the bottom of the "extra" areas beyond the greenhouse. You have to raise a certain number of plants (gifts don't count) to get each of the two extra areas.
The snails are used as you click on them. The plant whose page you click gets the benefit of the snail immediately, so you can't save them up and use them later.
As for how long your plants have to go, it is 100 hours from the time you pick up the seed for the seed to sprout and then another 100 hours from sprout to adult IF you have full sun and water all the time for the plant. If not, it slows down. There is no timer to tell you when the plant will be grown. I just add 5 days to when I picked up the seed and expect the sprout then and the grown plant 5 days later than that. It should be 4 days plus 4 hours but often I'm on here right before bed, so it's 4 days plus a nights' sleep and a day's work before I see my sprout.

Finally chased that last one down. Thought once I got 15 and the third prize I'd be satisfied with that, but my curiosity got the better of me. This completionist drive, I think, is why we all come here in the first place.

Actually, I've found 2 or 3 eggs each in the same places. I think they come up based on number of page views, not any specific place. I have 8 now and off to look for more.

I got one at 3 and one at 5 eggs. Now I have found a sixth egg, so perhaps there are more. Should they have been at 5 and 10, perhaps? I'll just have to go find 15 then. If there are that many.

I got more than one post pixie visit, so don't think you're done with the first prize. There are two to be had. Happy hunting, everyone!

It' s nicer than the generic programming "Dec 31, 1969" date that often gets plopped on items that have "null" values in the "date created" field.

I have a flower with the number 9489 (been here a while). The site doesn't seem to use placeholder zero's. The numbers just count up, well, numerically.

I agree with Kintara about primroses. This time of year the garden primroses are beautiful. Right after the camellias quit, the primroses take over. All colors, most with yellow "eyes" at the center. The scientific name of the wild type is Primula vulgaris, but the lovely color range is mainly found in the cultivated hybrids of that type. Primula is low-growing with trumpet-shaped flowers, and should not to confused with the taller, bigger tissue-paper flowers of the evening primrose (genus I believe is Oenothera). We have white, yellow, purple-blue, red and hot pink planted on our hospital campus. They are gorgeous.

Sorry it's so late, but just saw this thread. Hope you had a great day!

I now have my two "fat pink" hearts from last year and three of the light pink multiple hearts. Hope the other three are at least one red multi heart and one old single one. I can wait till next year for this year's.

I wonder if the framework the site is on (or the server or both) originate in the U.S. and that's why the date and spellchecker conform to United States standards of "correctness". Perhaps it is beyond the staff's control.

Once the seeds are adult, the parents can be bred again. So 8 days, give or take. If you bred your parents right at the very beginning of the event, you might have a few hours' window in which to breed them a second time on the last day of the event, since all events are turned "on" and "off" by staff, not automatically.

Hi there from a WEST Virginian! Actually, I transplanted myself to sunny California about 16 years ago, but I lived my first 36 years in Pt. Pleasant, WV and its surrounds. Everyone always says "Oh, you're from Virginia. It's so nice there." And they are right...Virginia is beautiful. Just have to love the Skyline Drive, Luray Caverns, Blacksburg, Wytheville, Norfolk/Suffolk/Virginia Beach and the Eastern shore. Hope you find us a friendly group. We love to see new players. It means the word is getting out there about our beautiful little game.

Nephele's artwork is so gorgeous it will be worth waiting for. I wouldn't expect a different game for each holiday, as her time needs to be spent on new flowers for those instead. Plus that would be entirely too much work.
I'll try clearing my cache and see if that helps the issue I was having.

I have a new problem with the match game. It's happened to me twice. I have two sets of Corn Poppy seedpods under the cards in the same game. The first time it happened I shrugged and went on, but the second time I discovered that you have to match the right two with each other or it doesn't count. This is quite confusing. Is there a way to fix it?

And Geore, right now the Snow Queen reigns year-round except when Santa takes over at Christmas. Perhaps one day we will have the Flower Fairy raining flowers during spring and early summer(April thru July) and the Harvest Fairy raining fruits and colorful leaves in the late summer and fall (August, September, October). Well, I can dream, can't I?

In addition to what was posted on that other post, Deutsche Welle (the German TV company) has a German course for free online. If you want to buy a course, but don't want the expense of the yellow-box language courses, there's an online course that is cheaper called Rocket German. The most important thing is finding someone to speak German with. My great-grandfather spoke German, so I learnt from him until he died when I was 7. I tried to use some books to brush up in my 30's, but had no one to speak with. I kept up my skills until then mostly because I knew German speakers in my hometown--I went to high school with 3 German-speaking kids, and my Girl Scout leader was from Germany. I'm 52 now and my German skills are very rudimentary. I remember my 7-year-old German better than my grown-up German.

I knew about the horseshoe and chimney sweep, but those are both recognized as good luck charms here in the U.S. (the sweeps largely because of Mary Poppins and "Chim Chim Cheree"). I knew about the mushroom, too, but not that it was a particular species of mushroom. Opa passed away when I was 7, so much of my German traditional knowledge (and language skills, for that matter) are on the second-grade level.
I, also, was thinking that the fly agaric mushroom would make you feel lucky to survive eating it. Kelandra beat me to the punch, though.

For those who aren't sure why we have a pig on our lucky clover, it's because in Germany pigs are lucky, especially in clover and especially at New Year's. The Danish at least and perhaps other cultures I am not as familiar with also share this vision of the pig as being a holiday good luck symbol. I think most Europeans are probably familiar with the symbolism, but a lot of my fellow Americans are probably confused and clueless about the pig in clover. My great-grandfather was from Germany, and he used to say "Ich habe Schwein gehabt," which means literally "I have had a pig" but figuratively "I've been lucky". Something like us Yanks being "lucky dogs".

One of my co-workers is Danish, and he brought up the marzipan pig in conversation today (that's the prize you get for finding the silver coin in the Christmas rice pudding). My young American co-workers thought it was hilarious. I, on the other hand, was unsurprised. So I thought it might be confusing for people not familiar with the custom, and that you might find the story behind your "Glucksschwein" interesting.

Wow, I go away for a few days and what I thought was a simple solution to end the divisiveness of bred vs parentless has turned into a huge hubbub. I do read and speak some German, but my grammar is atrocious, so I stick to English for the most part.

I think that if you were a new player with 0 Christmas stars and 0 poinsettias and you needed just one Christmas star seed to be able to breed to your Christmas trees to try to get two stars before the end of the event, you'd be glad that people were abandoning at the beginning and not the end.

But I think Exterminans' idea is the best one. Had I thought of it, I should have suggested that myself, instead of the Nursery.

The "parentless and untouched except by me" attitude is fostered by some very judgmental players on some adoptable sites, where unless you play their way you can't even trade with them or talk to them. You're a pariah unless you realize that "pureblood" is king and "mudblood" is trash. When you play enough sites like that, you feel like parentless adoptables are more valuable. It's only natural to absorb that sort of attitude when it's all you've ever known elsewhere. I've played at least 100 online game sites over 17 years, and I can tell you it's not at all friendly gamers helping each other out there. It's competition and "look what I have that you'll never get" and account numbers being status symbols. It's players coming in 4 years after the game debuted and throwing (literally) thousands of dollars at it to get to be the top of the leaderboards. It's a dog-eat-dog world out there in online gaming. This is a quiet little interlude in all the madness. It's why I like it here.