Have been trying on and off for two hours now, and it's down for me as well. The site itself and the forums. 
Posts by ChevalierDeLis
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As long as there will be friendship's love shared among gardeners, there will be a post pixie delivering parcels. Or so it would seem.
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I may be late, but as the saying goes: It's never too late for love.
So let me wish you all a lovely Valentine's week !
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I just bred two pairs of marvel x normal fern, and got two marvel seeds. So it seems to be a matter of luck, but the marvel breeding is still on.
I guess the post pixie only delivers the special event things for a few days (or even just one), and if you don't log in during that time you won't get a gift. But that's just my guess. (I missed this year's Valpurgis delivery that way.) -
The June release is there ! Three new kinds of hybrids, one of them a pygmy. Huzzah !
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How big do you think is the probability, that someone picks up this special seed within the 10 seconds, that you need to collect it?
Well, it gets higher with every HoV that only produces Bleeding Heart offspring.
But I guess you have a point there. I'm too used to games with a lot more users online at any given moment.Edit:
Adding to the breeding statistics: 4 more tries (HoV + BH) gave me two Bleeding Hearts (abandoned one) and two HoVs (finally). That's 2 out of 7 (or 8).
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Niksun:
Well, you could get one seed from the post pixie for completing the game to help the crying pixie (elf ? fairy ? whatever) that sits in your garden. And one seed for gifting away a plant at Valentine's. But I'm not sure how long the gifting-bonus was activated (or if it still is). If you did the game and helped the sad fairy find her letter and got a seed from the post for that already, and no additional post visit for gifting, then the gifting event may already have been turned off again when you gifted.gruenkern:
Although that solution is based on the assumption that no-one else would pick up the HoV seed you just bred from the wild garden before you do. -
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Shelybear:
All three were HoV x Bleeding Heart because I read the same thing. 
I guess it's just random (rotten) luck. Like it was with the Christmas Stars. -
KimiLavender:
I don't remember where I found what (except the Honey, but you have that already). BUT: One of the letter halves was positioned right behind one of the ads that are displayed on the left and right. I only found it when I activated an ad-blocker. But with that activated I couldn't click it, so I deactivated the blocker again and manually changed the size of my window until the ads and the letter piece where shoved to slightly different locations.That... wasn't as fun as it could have been. Perhaps in the future the programming could see to it that things you have to look for aren't placed in spaces where ads are supposed to go. If that's technically possible.
Edit: Oh, I'm sorry, I missed the spoiler that said you solved the puzzle. Congrats ! I'll leave the explanation in this post, in case someone else has a similar problem.
@Heart of Valentine breeding:
I have the same problem others reported - tried three pairs to get a Heart of Valentine, and all I got were Bleeding Hearts. Including my own at seeing that the Christmas Star fiasco is happening all over again. Those random ratios, or whatever it is supposed to be, made me miss one of the breed only variants again, because lots and lots of pairings ended up giving the non-holiday seeds. Luckily I have all variants of the Heart of Valentine, so I'll probably skip the frustration and stop to try and breed for them.
Did I just get unbelievable lucky the years before, or did the holiday plants always breed true back then ? It sure seemed that way.
The two Valentine plant seeds I have are from the post pixie (one for gifting and one for the letter game). I'm all the more thankful for them. -
Thank you, idril !
Happy Valentines !
This one is so smitten it started drooling. That's a compliment where it comes from. Really !
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The same phenomenon is showing in my garden.
Maybe some strange winter spirit haunted the lands and threw its spell over all the plants, leaving them frozen in one eternal moment.
Or the program behind it all just froze. -
Alia:
Thank you for posting that, it proves that they can indeed breed true. You are right, it seems to be just bad luck on my side.
No need to breed for me, but I appreciate the offer.
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I'm not sure it's random...
Next try:
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That leaves me with exactly one parentless plant to produce bred Christmas Stars. Makes getting the breed-only variant that I'm missing quite improbable.
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I'm not sure if this is a bug or just coincidence - when I try to breed my parentless Christmas Stars the three-star variety gives me Christmas Stars, but the yellow one only produces Poinsettias.
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So - shouldn't all Christmas Stars produce Christmas Stars during Christmas time ? Or is the result random and my yellow stars just had abysmal luck ?
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So the princess and the ghostly ladies are saved, the knight finally is with his beloved, the monk can drink his wine again and the evil wizard is defeated !
Huzzah to the hero called Gilmen !
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Gilmen:
You need a Rose, Cattail and Ivy. You should get the rose first. I'll assume you have it already. If not, here's the tip:Display Spoiler
First click at the roses. It tells you that you need something to cut one. There's a lobster in the lower right corner of the picture, click it. It tells you it'll help if you put it back in the river afterwards. Now click the roses to get one. Then place the lobster back in the river.
The Cattail and the caterpillar:
The caterpillar can be found exactly on the right of the ring of green (leaves) around the Cattail (in the 3 o'clock position, it's a small, blue, wiggly line, basically).Display Spoiler
Click it to pick it up. The caterpillar will pop up in your inventory, and the text tells you it wants to be brought to a safe place.
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That "safe place" is the hole in the trunk of the tree behind the monk, above the Cattail and a little to the left. Click it to bring the caterpillar there.
Once you got rid of the caterpillar harvest a Cattail by clicking on it.Only after you've got the rose and the Cattail you can get the Ivy.
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That's done by simply clicking on the green growth left of the door in the right tower. Below the blazoned shield. This only works after you already got the other two, before that clicking here will tell you there is nothing to be found.
I hope this helps. If you have further questions, just ask away.
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MiaSkywalker:
Thank you for the confirmation.Now if I only knew how to register for the wiki... Ah, well, perhaps Shely will find time to add the fact.
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Thank you for your answers so far ! It looks like we found another candidate for a breeding experiment, then.
For the time being I'll apologize to my Grape hyacinths - it would seem they couldn't have turned out dark blue even if they wanted to - and stop raising parentless ones. -
Some plants are beautiful. Some are interesting. Some are very resilient, and others very delicious. And then there are some that are just plain stubborn.
I've reached a point where I'm asking myself if the Grape hyacinth is a prime example of the last category, or if it is an innocent beauty that only fails to cooperate because I'm working under the wrong assumptions.
The Wiki doesn't mention any variety of the Grape hyacinth to be only achievable by breeding.
But in the course of one year I almost raised enough of these plants to conduct a one-person breeding experiment, and so far I failed to get the dark blue variety.
There are 15 purple and 13 light blue happy hyacinths blossoming in my garden, but none of the seeds wanted to grow into a rich dark blue.
purple
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dark blueSo perhaps you could take a look at your garden and tell me if there are any parentless dark blue varieties out there (in which case I'd just keep going), or if you only have those come out of a breeding ?
