No Animal Crossing: New Horizons island would be complete without a dash of floral colour. Thankfully, there are flowers aplenty to choose from right from the start of the game and, if you’re clever about it, lots of rare hybrid varieties as well. But how do you go about growing flowers and breeding hybrids? Don’t beat about the bush, follow our step by step guide below to find out!
Animal Crossing: New Horizons – Growing And Breeding Flowers Guide
What do I need flowers for?
At the beginning of the game, your island is a blank canvas just waiting for you to start your unique customisation process. While trees can alter the general look and feel of your island, there’s nothing quite like the smaller, daintier flower to make your new home that little bit more visually appealing.
As well as having aesthetic and bug-attracting qualities, flowers are useful tools in many DIY crafting recipes. It’s also easy to earn Nook Miles while tending to them. Excitingly, a new feature in New Horizons means that you can take the bloom from a fully developed flower whilst leaving the stalk intact. After a few days, the flower will bloom once again.
Many objectives in the game also tie in with the plant life of your island. For example, to unlock K.K. Slider you’ll need a three-star island rating from Isabelle – something you need to plant a minimum of fifty flowers to achieve. So not only are flowers pretty to look at, they are a key tool for advancement in the game.
As your island life begins you’ll notice that your new home has been assigned with one type of native fruit. Explore further (specifically in the higher elevations of your island) and you’ll see that you also have three types of flower growing naturally. There are a total of eight flower types in New Horizons: Lilies, Roses, Cosmos, Mums, Hyacinths, Windflowers, Tulips and Pansies. You can dig them up and re-plant them around your island as you choose.
At first, you’ll be able to find flowers in three natural colours, usually red, white and yellow. Timmy and Tommy also sell native flowers at Nook’s Cranny and they’ll add more as you upgrade your store. Unfortunately, they’ll never stock all eight variants, meaning that you have to source the remaining five non-native flowers in other ways.
One of the best ways to complete your floral collection is by visiting friends’ islands via local or online multiplayer and taking the flowers that you don’t have from them. There is also a small chance that non-native flowers will spawn on islands you visit during Mystery Tours, but getting them from friends is much faster.
The final way to add new flowers to your island is by breeding hybrid colours that you can’t buy anywhere else. Creating hybrid flowers is a feature that’s been present in other Animal Crossing games and it’s just as easy to do in New Horizons as it was in New Leaf and City Folk.
How do I breed hybrid flowers?
Hybrid flowers are flowers that are not the same colour as their parent plants. To cross-pollinate flowers and receive the rare hybrid varieties you need to plant your flowers in a diagonal or checkerboard pattern (see picture) with a gap between each plant, so new flowers can grow from the parent plant beside them. You’ll also need to make sure that each flower is adequately watered, a metric you can gauge by seeing whether a given plant sparkles or not. Sparkling flowers are happy, healthy and ready to breed, so use your watering can or wait for rain.
Complete these steps and a new flower with a unique hybrid colour should eventually begin to grow in one of your empty spaces. However, offspring may also be the same colour as the parent plant or one of several other varieties. If you have at least one other plant of the same species touching a parent plant along the diagonal, hough, you will produce rare hybrid offspring of a different colour eventually.
For a more simplified guide on which colour pairs produce what, read the sections below.
Cosmos
Target Cosmos colour
Breeding method
Black
Breed Red with Red
Pink
Breed Red with White
Orange
Breed Red with Yellow
Lily
Target Lily colour
Breeding method
Black
Breed Red with Red
Pink
Breed Red with White
Orange
Breed Red with Yellow
Mums
Target Mums colour
Breeding method
Pink
Breed Red with White
Purple
Breed White with White
Green
Breed Purple with Purple
Hyacinth
Target Hyacinth colour
Breeding method
Pink
Breed Red with White
Orange
Breed Red with Yellow
Blue
Breed White with White
Purple
Breed Blue with Blue
Windflower
Target Windflower colour
Breeding method
Pink
Breed Red with Orange
Blue
Breed Orange with White
Orange
Breed Blue with White
Purple
Breed Blue with Blue
Purple
Breed Blue with Pink
Blue
Breed White with White
Tulips
Target Tulips colour
Breeding method
Black
Breed Red with Red
Orange
Breed Red with Yellow
Pink
Breed Red with White
Purple
Breed Black with Black
Pansy
Target Pansy colour
Breeding method
Purple
Breed Red with Red
Orange
Breed Red with Yellow
Purple
Breed Blue with Blue
Blue
Breed White with White
Roses
Target Roses colour
Breeding method
Black
Breed Red with Red
Orange
Breed Red with Yellow
Pink
Breed Red with White
Purple
Breed White with White
Hybrid Red (different to normal Red)
Breed Purple with Orange
Blue
Breed Hybrid Red with Hybrid Red
Gold Roses
Gold roses are something of a special case in New Horizons and getting them is no easy task. Firstly, you’ll have to raise your island rating to the five-star level. Succeed and Isabelle will give you the DIY recipe for the golden watering can (you’ll need a golden nugget to craft it) which is an essential tool in breeding gold roses.
Next, you’ll need to breed some black roses (see section above) and plant them in a checkerboard pattern with spaces in between. Simply water the black roses with the gold watering can and each day check your planting bed to see if any gold coloured flowers have begun to grow.
If you’re successful you’ll end up with a flower bed full of fancy golden roses and you’ll even receive a new DIY recipe as a reward for your hard work!
That's all for now, but let us know if you have any questions or tell us what your New Horizons petal plans are going forwards!
You'll need to crossbreed black roses and then water them with a gold watering can for a chance to grow golden roses. In past games (like New Leaf), you needed to water withered black roses with a gold watering can. Check Out How To Breed Hybrid Flowers!
Gold roses are an item in Animal Crossing: New Horizons. They can be used as a wearable accessory, and when placed down will appear in a gold vase. Gold roses can be obtained from picking gold-rose plants. The flower sells for 1,000 Bells.
Golden roses won't clone or breed with another golden rose. According to the animal crossing fandom wiki: While a golden rose cannot clone or breed with another golden rose, it can be used as a partner to another rose. For this purpose, it is considered to have a 'rryywwbb' genotype.
To cross-breed, all you need to do is arrange your flower bed in a checkerboard pattern. In practice, it should be one flower, a gap, one flower, etc. The two nearby flowers of the same breed will cross-pollinate, producing a new color variant. To ensure this happens, make sure to water your flowers every day.
Although your gold watering can will water all nine squares around you, it only counts for the flower immediately in front of you, so you may need to "overwater" and stand directly in front of each black rose to up your chances of sprouting gold roses.
Once a player has two or more Black Roses, they should replant them next to one another to increase the chances more Black Roses will grow and to allow the Red Roses space to continue cross-breeding. Remember: The more Black Roses you have, the more Gold Roses you can grow in ACNH!
Next, you'll need to breed some black roses (see section above) and plant them in a checkerboard pattern with spaces in between. Simply water the black roses with the gold watering can and each day check your planting bed to see if any gold coloured flowers have begun to grow.
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The best way to do this is to plant your flowers in a checkerboard pattern, leaving every other space open for different plants to pollinate and hybrid flowers to grow. Flowers need water (from rain or from you and your Watering Can) to grow and create a hybrid.
In New Horizons, flowers no longer wilt by default, and only need to be watered to produce hybrids. A black rose that has been watered once by a gold watering can has a 50% chance of producing a gold rose until it produces one.
In order to grow gold roses, you'll first need to have a 5 star rating in your island evaluation. To achieve a 5 star rating, you must have 10 villagers living on your island, a mix of DIY and non-DIY furniture scattered across your island, a healthy number of flowers and trees, and lots of fences.
Once a player's island getaway is perfect, it has to remain perfect for 15 straight days. After 15 days of perfect satisfaction, Isabelle will give players the golden watering can as a reward for being so amazing.
Can Golden Tools Break? Before you get too excited, it is worth noting that Golden Tools can break! While they won't be nearly as breakable as Flimsy Tools, some members of the community have reported that the Tools can last up to 200 uses, so you'll definitely get quite a bit of use out of each tool.
The black rose is an extremely rare color but offers unrivaled beauty. Black roses aren't exactly black. Instead, black roses derive their color from intense shades of purple or red rather than pure black.
Cross the black roses in a mesh, in the same way as the red roses and water your plants with the golden watering can. Without this tool, you will not be able to get these rare roses. The next day, you will see golden rose buds.
Green Roses Are Not That Rare, But They Are Very Unusual. Rosa chinensis viridiflora. Green roses are said to have been around since about 1743, but were not cultivated until the mid 18th Century. They may even be one of the oldest roses of all, along with the single or wild roses.
The rarest flower in all of New Horizons is the Lily of the Valley, previously called the Jacob's Ladder. There are a lot of flowers to collect in Animal Crossing New Horizons, but the rarest one is the Lily of the Valley, a white flower that only appears under certain circ*mstances.
Rose gold is an alloy made from a combination of pure gold and copper. The blend of the two metals changes the color of the final product and its karat. For example, the most common alloy of rose gold is 75 percent pure gold to 25 percent copper, which makes 18k rose gold.
They are also commonly known as 24K gold rose, roses dipped in gold or gold-plated roses among other names. A popular question is whether gold-dipped roses last forever? If the roses have been preserved properly, then yes, they do last forever!
Gold-dipped roses, or gold-trimmed roses, are real roses that are cut and preserved in a protective shell of gold to make them last a long time. These roses are often given as gifts on special occasions like Mother's Day, Valentine's Day, wedding anniversaries, birthdays, and other celebrations and events.
Furthermore, players must have planted at least 100 plants and approximately 200 flowers on their island to achieve a 3-star rating. Here are all the steps Animal Crossing players must follow to have a 3-star rating for their New Horizons islands.
Yellow roses can be obtained from picking yellow-rose plants. The flower sells for 40 Bells. In Happy Home Paradise, this item is available from the start for use in designing.
The gold rose crown can be obtained from crafting, which requires 6× gold roses. The recipe for this item can be obtained from any villagers, either when they are crafting in their house, or when the player receives their message bottle from the beach.
Your best chance of finding a gold nugget is by eating 10 pieces of fruit to power up your villager and destroying a rock. While this means you sacrifice the chance at other items - like iron nuggets, stone or clay - there's a better chance you'll get your hands on a gold nugget.
Animal Crossing: New Horizons' blue roses are the rarest hybrid flowers in the game, and this guide will help players grow them. Blue roses are the most difficult hybrid flowers to obtain in Animal Crossing: New Horizons, as they can only be consistently bred from special red roses with a particular genetic makeup.
The rarest flower in all of New Horizons is the Lily of the Valley, previously called the Jacob's Ladder. There are a lot of flowers to collect in Animal Crossing New Horizons, but the rarest one is the Lily of the Valley, a white flower that only appears under certain circ*mstances.
You can find single iron nuggets by shooting balloons out of the sky. And if you're working on Tom Nook's request for 30 iron nuggets, your fellow villagers might occasionally give them to you when you chat. But the absolute best way to find iron nuggets in Animal Crossing is by mining for them.
Gold Nuggets are used to create Golden Tools once you've discovered or earned a Golden Tool recipe. There are also a number of furniture DIY recipes, such as the Aries Rocking Chair, that require Gold Nuggets. Finally, Gold Nuggets are worth 8,000 bells, which is great if you're in need of some quick bells.
HOW TO FARM IRON NUGGETS IN ANIMAL CROSSING: NEW HORIZONS. To increase the odds of obtaining Iron Nuggets, players should use the "Rock Trick" to farm this resource. The "Rock Trick" enables players to strike rocks up to eight times before it "dries" up as opposed to three.
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