Garden

A small meadow that is planted fresh each time you open it, and grows according to the air around you.

Using the Garden#

Open the second tile on the home screen. A new set of three to five plants sprouts, grows and opens its flowers over a couple of seconds, then sways in the wind.

Control	What it does
Touch the screen	Flick the stems near your finger. Closer stems bend more, then spring back.
`A`	Plant a brand-new meadow and watch it bloom again.
`B`	Back to the home screen.

A plants a different meadow. — `A` plants a different meadow.

Each visit plants a new meadow.

The flowers#

Normal plants are sunflowers, peonies, eucalyptus and vanda orchids, on green stems. In polluted air some plants come up strange: dark, purple-stemmed variants, including the gazer, which only grows in bad air.

How the air changes it#

The Garden reads the air when you open it and each time you press A.

Strange flowers appear once the worst of CO2, VOC and NOx is poor (roughly CO2 above 1200 ppm, a VOC index above 200 or a NOx index above 120). The worse the air, the more likely each plant is strange, up to one in two.
Bloom speed goes up with CO2 and down with VOC and NOx.
Plant size follows the same mix, between half and 1.2 times normal size.
Swelling. While the Garden is open, plants grow a little (up to 10% per 1000 ppm) if CO2 rises from where it was when you came in.

Polluted air: tall, fast-blooming plants.

Strange flowers: spiky heads on dark purple stems.

To see the effect of a change in air, close the Garden and open it again, or press A.