There are eight different flowers in Animal Crossing: New Horizons, and indeed each of these flowers grow in a variety of colors. At the earliest stages of the game, a player will encounter just orange, red, white, and yellow blossoms, but it is possible to crossbreed flowers in Animal Crossing: New Horizons and create special hybrid colors. Providing instructions on how exactly this is done is the purpose of this guide, and there is a hybrid flower chart below for fans that simply need a quick reference.
To begin, crossbreeding in Animal Crossing: New Horizons is preformed by putting flowers of the same species into a specific pattern and using the watering can to water them daily. That pattern looks like an 'x,' with a flower in the center and flowers placed around it diagonally, and here is an image that illustrates how to layout flowers for crossbreeding in ACNH:
Once a player has placed their flowers in this pattern, and kept them watered, they will occasionally find that new flowers have grown in the spaces left between the flowers. These new flowers will sometimes be hybrids, though not always, and Animal Crossing: New Horizons players that are looking to breed these special colors should simply maintain the spacing and watering of their gardens.
With the process for crossbreeding flowers in Animal Crossing: New Horizons established, it is now possible to outline how to target specific hybrid colors. This is done by placing flowers of certain colors in the aforementioned pattern, and the following chart, which was created by Reddit user karasophe, details the hybrids that can spawn from the various color combinations of each different flower in Animal Crossing: New Horizons.
While this chart is fairly straightforward, an example may be helpful in establishing how it should be understood. To that end, players that look to the lilies section will see that a red and yellow lily have the ability to crate an orange hybrid in Animal Crossing: New Horizons. Thus, if a fan surrounds a yellow lily diagonally with red lilies, there is the potential for orange lilies to spawn in the spaces between.
One final thing to mention is that there are a few "special" flowers denoted with green circles in the Animal Crossing: New Horizons flower chart above. For instance, a yellow and orange rose have the potential to breed a "special" red rose, which is different from the standard red roses that players will find. This is relevant because these "special" flowers are needed to create certain hybrids, and players that want those colors for their islands should be mindful of that fact when planting their crossbreeding gardens in ACNH.
Animal Crossing: New Horizons is available now for Nintendo Switch.
Source: Reddit
