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0 of 4 spots planted in this your room garden. Only plants that really live in this habitat can be planted here — unlock more gardens in the Gardens tab.
Everyday seeds
White clover
Clover pulls nitrogen out of the air and feeds it to the soil for free.
Basil
Let basil flower at the end of the season and bees will thank you.
Marigold
Gardeners plant marigolds beside vegetables to keep pests moving along.
Strawberry
One strawberry plant sends out runners and quietly becomes six.
Sunflower
Young sunflowers track the sun across the sky each day, then settle facing east.
Climbing bean
Beans host bacteria on their roots that turn air into plant food.
Mint
Mint spreads by runners — keep it potted or it takes the whole bed.
Cherry tomato
Tomatoes grow extra roots from a buried stem, so planting deep makes them stronger.
Snap pea
Peas grow best in cool weather — they're a spring and autumn crop.
Chives
Chive flowers are edible and pollinators reach them before almost anything else.
Wood fern
Ferns were shading the ground long before flowers existed.
Only grows in Boreal Forest Corner, Rainforest Terrarium
Cushion moss
Moss has no roots — it drinks straight through its leaves.
Only grows in Boreal Forest Corner, Rainforest Terrarium
Aloe
Aloe stores water in its leaves, which is why it forgives forgetful gardeners.
Rare seeds
Common milkweed
Monarch caterpillars eat nothing else — no milkweed, no monarchs.
Only grows in Prairie Pollinator Patch, Coastal Dune Garden
Wild blueberry
Wild blueberries need acidic soil and bumblebees that buzz the pollen loose.
Only grows in Boreal Forest Corner, Coastal Dune Garden
Lavender
Lavender is drought-happy: overwatering is the usual way people lose it.
Marram beach grass
It grows *up* through burying sand — that's how dunes get taller.
Only grows in Coastal Dune Garden
Black spruce
Black spruce grows slowly in peatland and can outlive several generations of people.
Only grows in Boreal Forest Corner
Sugar maple
A sugar maple needs about 40 litres of sap for one litre of syrup.
Purple coneflower
Leave the seed heads standing and goldfinches feed on them all winter.
Only grows in Prairie Pollinator Patch, Rooftop City Garden
Wild bergamot
Its scent is a natural insect repellent — and hummingbirds love the flowers.
Only grows in Prairie Pollinator Patch, Coastal Dune Garden
Sea oats
Sea oats are protected in many places because dunes collapse without them.
Only grows in Coastal Dune Garden
Bog cranberry
Cranberries float, which is how flooded bogs are harvested.
Only grows in Boreal Forest Corner, Coastal Dune Garden
Blue agave
Agave opens its pores at night to lose almost no water to the sun.
Only grows in Desert Xeriscape
Yucca
Yucca and its moth can't survive without each other — a perfect partnership.
Only grows in Desert Xeriscape, Coastal Dune Garden
Paper birch
Birch bark peels in papery sheets that stay waterproof for years.
Only grows in Boreal Forest Corner, Prairie Pollinator Patch
Exotic seeds
Sacred lotus
Lotus leaves are so water-repellent that engineers copied them to design self-cleaning surfaces.
Only grows in Rainforest Terrarium
Saffron crocus
Saffron is the world's priciest spice — it's hand-picked, three threads per flower.
Only grows in Desert Xeriscape, Prairie Pollinator Patch
Dragonfruit cactus
Its huge flowers open for a single night and are pollinated by bats and moths.
Only grows in Desert Xeriscape, Rainforest Terrarium
Ghost orchid
The ghost orchid has almost no leaves — its green roots do the photosynthesis.
Only grows in Rainforest Terrarium
Baobab
A baobab trunk can hold over 100,000 litres of water to survive the dry season.
Only grows in Desert Xeriscape, Rainforest Terrarium
Titan arum
It flowers once every few years, smells like rotting meat, and pulls in beetles for kilometres.
Only grows in Rainforest Terrarium
Pitcher plant
Bog soil is so poor that pitcher plants get their nitrogen from insects instead.
Only grows in Rainforest Terrarium, Boreal Forest Corner
Vanilla orchid
Almost every vanilla pod in the world is pollinated by hand, flower by flower.
Only grows in Rainforest Terrarium
Welwitschia
It grows just two leaves — for up to 1,500 years — and drinks coastal fog.
Only grows in Desert Xeriscape
Cacao tree
Cacao is pollinated by tiny midges, so chocolate depends on flies nobody thanks.
Only grows in Rainforest Terrarium
Giant bamboo
Some bamboo grows almost a metre a day — the fastest growing plant on record.
Only grows in Rainforest Terrarium, Rooftop City Garden