Complete flower breeding guide for Animal Crossing: New Horizons
Breed every single flower with this essential guide
Animal Crossing: New Horizons has its hooks in me. Deep, too. I wake up in the morning, and I need to see my new villagers, new layout changes, how my plans are slowly taking shape, which fruit have grown, how many bells are on my daily money tree, all of it. I'm in too deep, and I can't crawl out now.
But that's fine, because damn, I love this game, and it's even got me doing something I've never actually bothered with in Animal Crossing games before: flower breeding.
Breeding flowers basically leads you down the road to finding rare insects, making loads of money, and achieving a five-star town rating, no matter what it takes. Your Nook's Cranny shop will sell you some flower seeds to start, but other islands will have different seeds in stock. Visit loads of friends and strangers to get every flower variety, just like your fruit collection.
All you need to do to breed flowers is plant them close to one another, and make sure to water them. If it's raining, that'll do instead. Upgrade from a flimsy watering can to water six spaces at once, speeding up the process.
We've gone over every kind of flower and their rare varieties below. Though, we have not listed the methods to attain the basic flower colours because, well, you can just go buy some seeds, dude.
Before we move on, here's a key to what colours we'll be talking about - making this key is just easier than typing it all out, okay? Special shoutout to PG staffer Cameron Bald who helped my colorblind ass with all of these colours.
Key:
- Blue = BLU
- Black = BLA
- Orange = ORA
- Red = RED
- Yellow = YEL
- Purple = PUR
- Pink = PIN
- White = WHI
- Red hybrid - RHY
- Orange hybrid - OHY
Now that that's out of the way, read our list below to find out how to breed every flower variety in Animal Crossing: New Horizons. And a special thank you goes out to eugeneration on reddit.
1
Roses
Roses are the standard and the flower everyone loves, mainly because they are the only flower that can become Gold. In order to get the Gold Roses, you'll need a Gold Watering Can, which will be obtained as a DIY recipe from Isabelle once your town has a five-star rating.
- Orange - RED+YEL
- Pink - RED+WHI / RED+RED
- Black - RED+RED
- Purple - WHI+WHI
- Red hybrid - ORA+WHI / ORA+PUR / RED+PUR
- Blue - RHY+RHY
- Gold - BLA+BLA+Water with gold watering can
2
Pansies
The Pansies are the type of flower you're most likely to come across, and there are a bunch of colours for you to get.
- Orange - RED+YEL
- Blue - WHI+WHI
- Red hybrid - RED+BLU
- Orange hybrid - ORA+BLU
- Purple - RHY+RHY / OHY+OHY
3
Tulips
Have you ever been to the Keukenhof gardens? They have a lot of tulips. You can make your own Keukenhof in New Horizons with these variations…
- Orange - RED+YEL
- Pink - RED+WHI
- Black - RED+RED
- Purple - ORA+ORA
4
Hyacinths
I have so many Hyacinth in my town, and the Blue Hyacinth has coasted me to riches by spawning plenty of Peacock Butterflies in my town…
- Orange - RED+YEL
- Pink - RED+WHI
- Blue - WHI+WHI / PIN+PIN
- Purple - ORA+ORA
5
Lilies
Lilies are pretty flowers and will help you spice up your town and raise your town rating.
- Orange - RED+YEL
- Pink - RED+WHI
- Black - RED+RED
6
Windflowers
I finally got to visit a friend's town and bought up loads of Windflower seeds from their shop. Definitely recommended.
- Pink - RED+WHI / RED+ORA
- Blue - WHI+WHI
- Purple - BLU+BLU / BLU+PIN / PIN+PIN
7
Cosmos
Have all of the colours of the cosmos with these rare variants.
- Orange - RED+YEL
- Pink - RED+WHI
- Black - ORA+ORA
8
Mums
Mums' the word, as they say. You'll get rare insects in town with the flowers. Oh, these are the only green flowers currently in the game, too!
- Pink - RED+WHI / RED+RED
- Purple - WHI+WHI / PIN+PIN
- Green - PUR+PUR
