Island overrun with flowers... send help

[rawstberry]

i have exactly the same problem! i'm currently working on digging up and selling the ones i don't want to nook's and then fencing or putting a paved path in front of the rest of them to stop them from spreading again.

 

[samticore]

i am drowning in regular flowers. a sea of them. and it rains everyday. i keep pushing the problem back. i reap what i sow.

 

[Fluuffy]

If you're planning on selling your flowers, I found that no one was interested in the normal kinds and only hybrids. The fastest way to get rid of them is to sell them in bulk for a cheap price or materials. If not, you can sell it to Timmy and Tommy for a small profit since you would spend about as much for the customization kit than for the flower profit. Otherwise, bring a trash can with you and dump it, it's much faster than running to Nook's

I highly recommend this. My island is full of hybrids. I only sell in a bulk of 20 and it definitely gets the job done of removeming flowers from your island while earning some bells or currency you want. I still have a lot of flowers but it’s getting less and less by bulk sales.

 

[Lillyshins]

I'm planning on literally carpeting my island in Lillys and Roses. Still havnt got too awful many... I have a waterfalls wall encircling my entire island with a row of Rose's on one side and will be lillys on the other, but I need leif to sell me more Lilly seeds to finish that. I planted about 60 rose seeds the other day along the corresponding wall, leaving space for eventual growth. But theres still a TON of spaces left to fill all together. ^-^

 

[5cm/s]

i honestly just gave away all my flowers- even the hybrids. i considered selling them bc i had some green mums and gold roses and other rarer/expensive hybrids but honestly, the peace of mind of not having to coordinate trades or think about money/order amounts was so nice.
i basically was just like "the first 6 people to send me their dodo get 39 random hybrids of these colors" and i just unloaded them really fast. it was so liberating! and i hope i helped some people w their islands c:

 

[yuujinchou]

i sell the ones i don't need! or even give them away to friends.

a friend of mine had her island so overrun with flowers that she asked me to come to her island to help. we were digging up flowers and selling them for three hours, and she still had a ton of them left. it feels like they spread so quickly now!

 

[sleepydreepy]

yup. I sold all my non hybrid flowers to nooklings, and then accidentally bought wayyy too many hybrids lol

 

[Alicia]

I threw away a bunch of non hybrid flowers. I kept relocating the flowers when I wanted to decorate an area, but then I cluttered up a different spot with so many flowers that throwing them away was the quickest and easiest way of getting rid of them. I still have a bunch of them, but there was just too many!

 

[Bioness]

I just started selling my hybrids to Nook's Cranny, it was too much of a hassle to trade them.

 

[voltairenism]

I got to a point where my whole island was filled with flowers. The lag was horrible. I gave away a lot of them but people didn't want the commons, so I put a garbage can next to me and start digging. And digging and digging and digging..... Now I manage to put all my hybrids on the beach, organize the ones I want to breed, and I throw away all the rest. It took me like... 3 days....

 

[trashpedia]

Yeah I have a huge peninsula filled with blue windflowers I want to get rid of. It’s such a pain to get rid of flowers in this game imo. I hope in the future the lawnmower is functional so that you can actually get rid of flowers and stuff.

 

[Raz]

I don't know if it works but when you open the island designer app, you have access to a cleanup option that can be used to remove trees. I believe it can remove flowers as well. It may be worth checking that out, as it may be a faster way of doing that...

 

[whimsycreator]

I had the same problem. I had so many flowers that it was hard to find anywhere to place outdoor items, and when balloons flew over with presents, they would always disappear. And forget about shaking fruit trees.

It took me hours to get rid of all the flowers I wanted gone. I’d say they’re the unexpected true Demonic Spiders of the game. If you don’t contain them, they WILL multiply until your island is covered in them.

 

[Saaga]

I just toss them in the trash can.

 

[brockbrock]

I have the same problem. I just sort of let them grow on their own, and after several weeks with periods where it felt like I had consecutive rain days, they are overgrown everywhere and I feel kind of overwhelmed. I do appreciate that people can't run over and destroy your hybrids, but it is quite a pain to always have to use the shovel (which always breaks midway through) to get rid of them. I think I'll need to buy like 20 shovels from Nook's Cranny and even then it might not be enough... it's that bad.