How this site works
There are a few things here that don't look like much until someone points at them. Nothing on this page is saved anywhere — try all of it.
The little heart saves it for later
Every flower on the site has a heart in its corner. Tap it and that variety is kept in your garden — no forms, no signing up. It's for the moment you find something lovely three pages deep and know you'll never remember the name.
Go on, tap the heart. Nothing here is saved to your account; this one is just for practising.
Your saved flowers stay in this browser, so they're waiting when you come back. Sign in and they follow you to any device.
See your gardenAsk for what you want, in your own words
You don't have to know a single variety name. Say what you're after and Holly's helper will find it and take you straight to the page:
- “show me yellow tall bearded”
- “something fragrant for a hot dry yard”
- “what reblooms in the fall?”
Don't feel like typing? Tap the microphone beside the box and just say it out loud.
Every flower turns over
Click any photo and the card flips to its details — the class, the hybridizer, when it blooms, what it's won.
Click the flower. Every card on the site turns over.
Plant them before you plant them
Your saved flowers can be laid out in a bed of six, nine, twelve or fifteen — so you can see the colours beside each other and what the whole thing costs before you order a thing.
And if you'd rather just play: the SIM Garden is the same bed as a little 18th-century botanical plate, where a gardener named Rosie wanders out and waters whatever you plant.
If it's gone, ask to be told
A variety with Notify Me When Available isn't gone for good — it's just not dug this season. Leave your email on it and you'll hear the moment it's back, rather than checking all winter. Rhizomes ship June through October, and shipping is $17 flat however many you order.
Still stuck on something? The FAQ covers ordering and growing — or just ask Holly's helper, which is quicker.