Cherry blossom season has hit Habbo Hotel Origins in a flowery burst of seasonal pink plants that can be found while purchasing your normal gardening plants, with a no-longer-secret hidden variant - Ophelie's Sakura plants! 

The Sakura Gardens update is similar to the Harvest Grounds event last autumn. When purchasing plants from Ophelie in the Picnic Garden, you'll now have a chance to receive a pink variant! Higher level gardeners will have a wider choice and it can be daunting to know what to grow, so here's a quick summary of the pink variants available.

Only potlings, bushes and trees have pink variants and they come in three individual shades:

  • Blushing = light pink
  • Rosy = middle pink
  • Petalburst = dark pink

The exact drop rate of pink plants is unknown, but blushing plants appear to be the most common while the other two shades are harder to get your hands on. 

But wait... there's more! If you're not happy with those colours, there's a (not so) secret fourth variant that you will have a chance to grow from the other pink ones shown above. 

How to Get Ophelie's Secret Sakura Plants

Ophelie's Sakura plants are a brighter shade of pink and identifiable by their little flowers amongst the leaves, and fallen petals at the base of the plant. 

Ophelie's Sakura plants can only grow from pink potlings and trees (not bushes!). Sakura variants seem to be very rare, and the chance to grow them is only triggered if they're placed nearby to Japan furni (found in the catalogue). It doesn't matter which furni items you place - the more Japan furni in the vicinity, the higher your chances will be to spawn a Sakura variant. There is however a chance percentage cap, so filling an entire 400 square room with Japan furni might not be the best approach... 

I'll share my setups below for anyone looking for a quick reference, as you can see I've mostly gone for Japanese Lanterns, Bamboo Patches and Teamakers. The most and ultimately only important part is making sure you have Japan furni close to the blushing/rosy/petalburst plants you're growing. 

In my experimenting I've generally found the best approach to yielding Sakura variants to be the following (stacking knowledge needed): 

Stack your pink plants on the same square, then stack Japanese Lanterns and other Japan furni on the immediate surrounding squares. Radius and amount of furni matters, so cram it all onto the adjacent squares next to the one where your plants are stacked. 

You'll know one of your plants has changed into an Ophelie's Sakura variant by clicking the baby plant in the second or third growth stage. If successful, your plant name will have been replaced with 'Ophelie's Sakura (plant name)'. I haven't witnessed the change happening after the early growth stages, but don't lose hope, that doesn't mean it can't happen! 

At this stage, all you can do is your best to keep it alive, and enjoy watching the growth stages as the beautiful pink petals and flowers spawn in! If you don't yield any Sakura variants you'll have to keep trying - don't forget to grow and harvest your normal plants at the same time to keep up with the fruit token expense! The end date for this seasonal cherry blossom event is unknown, so don't miss out and get growing!

Good luck, and happy Sakura hunting! o7

Let us know your thoughts!

As a seasoned gardener myself I enjoy these gardening events a lot. But as mentioned before, Ophelie's Sakura variants seem incredibly rare and large numbers of these special plants will require a lot of commitment. Baby gardeners have a chance to get the potlings, perhaps a few beginner trees, but it's worth noting that events like these might not be all that enticing to new gardeners due to the cost of the higher level plants and the time it takes to get there. 

If you're partaking in the event, feel free to comment below if you're enjoying it or not so much, and why! <3