How will the flowers work?

[visibleghost]

It seems that flowers will work differently in New Horizons from previous games, in the trailer we see the player first planting flowers that are just like small green things sticking out of the ground. Later we see the flowers before they are blooming and then we see the fully grown tulip plants and the player picking just the tulip flowers off of the plant. Finally we see the pansies which look a little different and a pink tulip.

Spoiler: pictures from the E3 trailer

look at her flower crown tho

How do you think flower breeding and planting will work in New Horizons? And what is up with the way she just picks the flowers and not the whole thing?

 

[lars708]

Tulips grow from flowerbulbs and since flower growth seems more realistic now it could mean that after harvesting tulips they'll grow new flowers after some time. Realistically it'd be a year but this is Animal Crossing so probably a few days. For other flowers that's different however so I wonder if there will be actual mechanical differences between flower species now.

 

[ChromaticLights]

Hybrid gardening is one of my favorite aspects of the game to work on so I hope its still a complex and compelling system and not just some DIY unlock-able recipe for different colors now... Though I don't see why they'd take it away.

 

[Shellzilla_515]

First off, the flowers are finally 3d modeled which is nice. It does look like it will have to grow for at least a few days once planted. I hope there's a chance of new flower hybrids.

 

[pinkfawn]

I really like how you can pick flowers without it like taking them all out of the ground. Part of me wants seasonal flowers but also I would be sad if my town didn't look as pretty during the winter snow because there were no flowers.

I never really got into flower breeding but with the flowers looking as good as they do in NH I think I'll give it a shot.

 

[WeiMoote]

What if the flowers closed up during the winter months? Like, they would still be there, but in a dormant state?

We only got 5 seconds of Winter footage, and we didn't see any flowers, at all.

 

[KeatAlex]

I wonder if we're getting any new flowers. Seems like the flowers will be used for crafts maybe thats why it's possible to just remove the bud.

 

[2kimi2furious]

What if the flowers closed up during the winter months? Like, they would still be there, but in a dormant state?

We only got 5 seconds of Winter footage, and we didn't see any flowers, at all.

I would hate that. The winter months are so bleak and dreary that the pop of color from the flowers is the only thing that makes me like my town in that season.

 

[Burumun]

I wonder if we're getting any new flowers. Seems like the flowers will be used for crafts maybe thats why it's possible to just remove the bud.

This is what I'm thinking, too. It would sort of suck to have to breed separate hybrids for crafting and for landscaping.

 

[AlyssaAC]

I'm hoping that they bring back the lilies, as they are my favorite flowers. Also, I'd be sad too if they didn't bloom in the winter, but it was pretty neat you can pick the tulips and that they may possibly grow back. Though, I'm wondering something about that. Say like you want to move the flowers to a different location. How would you do that without destroying them or something?

 

[Burumun]

I'm hoping that they bring back the lilies, as they are my favorite flowers. Also, I'd be sad too if they didn't bloom in the winter, but it was pretty neat you can pick the tulips and that they may possibly grow back. Though, I'm wondering something about that. Say like you want to move the flowers to a different location. How would you do that without destroying them or something?

Possibly in the same way you can move trees as shown in the trailer - you dig them up and replant them where you want them to be.

 

[Riley9]

I really hope they don't bring the pollination feature from Pocket Camp. I'd much rather grow hybrids the way we did before.

 

[Nilesse]

Hybrids are one of my favorite features as well, I hope they're staying (though they probably will)!

The bulb-only harvesting is probably because they are very likely used in crafting (e.g. the flower crown). I feel like it's a nice middle ground, you don't have an unlimited supply (because they'd have to regrow) but you don't have to purchase seeds/wait for hybrids to pop up every time you want to craft something using flowers.

 

[LeAckerman]

I wonder if we can use a shovel to pick up the whole flower. We saw in the trailer that you can dig up an entire tree and pocket it, so I wonder if flowers will be the same way.

 

[Jason Voorhees]

I prefer the hybrid colors to the regular flowers. I'd hate the lose them.

 

[DJStarstryker]

What if the flowers closed up during the winter months? Like, they would still be there, but in a dormant state?

We only got 5 seconds of Winter footage, and we didn't see any flowers, at all.

If they want to go that far, then they should have the flower flat out look dead. That's what happens for many perennial plants when they go into their dormant state - they don't just close up. They wither and brown and go brittle. They don't look that distinguishable from dead plants. You will just know the difference when (if, sometimes a plant just flat out dies then if they don't survive the frost) it comes back when it gets warmer and you see it getting green bits slowly again.

 

[lars708]

If they want to go that far, then they should have the flower flat out look dead. That's what happens for many perennial plants when they go into their dormant state - they don't just close up. They wither and brown and go brittle. They don't look that distinguishable from dead plants. You will just know the difference when (if, sometimes a plant just flat out dies then if they don't survive the frost) it comes back when it gets warmer and you see it getting green bits slowly again.

The issue is that most flowers that are in Animal Crossing don't do that and just die off in the cold.