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How it works
Cosy, with depth: you care for, propagate and sell plants, and every decision makes your nursery grow a little.
Care
Water by feel, give every plant the right spot and keep an eye on the seasons and on pests. Cacti like it dry, pitcher plants like it tropical and humid.
Propagate and cross
Take cuttings, pollinate flowers with the brush and grow seeds. Your crosses become new varieties that you register under your own name.
Sell and expand
Customers with wishes of their own, orders, auctions and a shop in town: your coins build greenhouses, climate chambers, glass palaces and, in the end, your own garden center.
Explore
Send plant hunters around the world, do research with Professor Kannwitz and follow Aunt Erika's diary in search of the legendary moon pitcher.
Your collection
More than 400 real plants
From the tiny Lilliput orchid to the giant titan arum, and with the Garden Center Gang even plants thought extinct or from prehistoric times: every species really exists or existed, with its real origin and a little story. No two plants look alike, and your album fills up page by page.
- 405 species
- 29 plant families
- 8 rarity levels
From common to unique
The rarer, the more valuable. And the giant Rafflesia? Good luck finding it. Beyond mythic, the Garden Center Gang begins.
CommonVenus Flytrap
UncommonMoon Cactus 'Hibotan'
RareCobra Lily
EpicScarlet Cattleya
LegendaryNepenthes rajah
MythicCorpse Lily
RelicWollemi Pine
UniqueWood's Cycad
How do you get relics and uniques? Only through the Garden Center Gang.
Some residents of your nursery
This is how they look in the game. The facts come straight from Blattgold.
Nepenthes rajah
LegendaryOrigin: Borneo (Mount Kinabalu)
The largest pitcher in the world: it holds up to 3.5 liters. Treeshrews lick the nectar on the lid and, in return, leave behind … fertilizer.
Corpse Lily
Rafflesia arnoldii
MythicOrigin: Rainforests of Sumatra and Borneo
The largest single flower in the world: almost a meter across, weighing up to 11 kg, and it smells of rotting meat. It has no leaves, stems or roots.
Echeveria 'Blue Bird'
UncommonOrigin: Cultivar
One of the bluest echeverias of all. The pink tips come from sun stress – a kind of freckles.
Scarlet Cattleya
Cattleya coccinea
EpicOrigin: Southeast and southern Brazil to northeast Argentina: on mossy trees and rocks in the cloud forests of the Serra do Mar, 650–1,750 m
Its old name Sophronitis comes from the Greek word for “modest”, as the plant barely grows 10 cm tall. Its scarlet flower, on the other hand, is up to 7 cm across.
Phragmipedium kovachii
LegendaryOrigin: Northern Peru, eastern slopes of the Andes (limestone rocks around 2,000 m)
Only discovered in 2001 and instantly a crime story: namesake Michael Kovach took it to the USA without the right papers and got two years' probation. On the bright side, it has the largest flower in its genus: up to 20 cm, hot pink.
Slender Sun Pitcher
Heliamphora elongata
LegendaryOrigin: Venezuela: rock crevices, gullies and small bogs on the Ilú, Tramen and Karaurín tepuis, 1,800–2,600 m
The summit of Ilú-tepui, where it grows, can only be reached by helicopter. Each shoot usually has just 2 to 3 living pitchers, ringed by dead old ones that probably shield them from wind and rain.
Cobra Lily
Darlingtonia californica
RareOrigin: USA: Northern California and Oregon (cold, spring-fed bogs)
The pitchers look like rearing cobras, forked tongue and all. See-through windows in the hood confuse insects, and bacteria do the digesting.
Blue Flesh Pyramid
Sarcopyramis sp. 'Sumatra'
LegendaryOrigin: Probably Sumatra (Indonesia), according to nurseries: deep shade in damp rainforest undergrowth, altitude unknown
Its leaves shimmer metallic blue like beetle wings, and the undersides are reddish purple. It has no species name yet: in the trade it is simply called “sp. Sumatra”.
Moon Cactus 'Hibotan'
Gymnocalycium mihanovichii 'Hibotan'
UncommonOrigin: Japan (cultivar)
This bright red cactus has no chlorophyll and can't survive on its own. It rides piggyback on a green rootstock.
Red Living Stone
Lithops karasmontana 'Top Red'
UncommonOrigin: Namibia (Karas Mountains)
The red-veined windows look like maps with rivers. Every plant has its own map.
Monstera 'Thai Constellation'
Monstera deliciosa 'Thai Constellation'
RareOrigin: Cultivar from tissue culture
Its cream-colored speckles look like a starry sky and are considered stable. Every single plant is propagated in a lab.
Philodendron 'Pink Princess'
Philodendron erubescens 'Pink Princess'
RareOrigin: Cultivated form
Dark leaves with bright pink patches. Every leaf is a surprise: sometimes all pink, sometimes just a splash.
Venus Flytrap
Dionaea muscipula
CommonOrigin: USA (bogs in North and South Carolina)
The trap only snaps shut when a tiny hair is touched twice within 20 seconds. So it counts! And no, it doesn't like ground beef.
Welwitschia
Welwitschia mirabilis
LegendaryOrigin: Namibia (Namib Desert)
In its whole life it grows only two leaves, which keep growing endlessly – some plants are over 1,500 years old. Patience is its middle name.
Echeveria 'Topsy Turvy' Cristata
Echeveria runyonii 'Topsy Turvy' f. cristata
EpicOrigin: Mexico (cultivar, crested form)
A cristata forms when the growing point stretches out into a line. Instead of a rosette, a wavy crest grows – each one is unique.
Pride of Table Mountain
Disa uniflora
EpicOrigin: South Africa, Western Cape: by waterfalls, streams and seeps in the sandstone mountains, from Table Mountain to the Cederberg
Only one single butterfly pollinates it: the Table Mountain beauty, a fan of bright red. In return, it happily stands with wet feet right next to the waterfall.
Luck and patience
12 rare mutations
Sometimes propagating brings something very special: golden, striped or snow-white plants, wavy crests and magical mutations that glow at night. Mutants are worth a lot, and you can breed them on.
- CristataThe growing point stretches out into a wavy crest.
- VariegataCreamy white stripes, because parts of the leaves lack chlorophyll.
- AureaGolden yellow instead of green. Looks like it was dipped in honey.
- MonstrosaLots of little heads sprouting everywhere. Chaotic, but gorgeous.
- MoonlightMagical: glows softly at night, like the moon.
- StardustMagical: the farina sparkles like a starry sky, even by day.
- Crystal PitcherMagical: translucent pitchers, as if made of glass.
- AlbinoAlmost no chlorophyll at all: snow-white and delicate. Needs extra love.
- Pink SpecklesHot-pink spots on the leaves, as if someone got messy with paint.
- Half MoonEvery leaf is exactly half green and half creamy white. Collectors go wild.
- Firefly MagnetMagical: fireflies dance around this plant at night.
- AuroraMagical: each leaf shimmers in a different color of the northern lights.
From shed to empire
Your nursery grows with you
Step by step, Aunt Erika's old shed becomes a whole quarter: greenhouse, palm house and crystal greenhouse, breeding house and climate chambers, a lab for clones, staff who lend a hand, your own shop in town, glass palaces and, in the end, a botanical garden and a garden center. And once it all stands, a secret gang sends you a letter.
- Customers with wishes
- Orders and auctions
- Staff
- Shop in town
Your empire takes over the town
Freshly unpacked: your nursery grows into a whole neighborhood. A botanical garden with admission, a garden center with a parking lot and industrial greenhouses that grow around the clock. And from now on, you set your own prices.
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New
Botanical Garden
The whole Old City Park becomes a garden: Desert Garden, Bog Garden, Tropical House, Orchid Ravine and a Treasure Vault, filled with your most beautiful plants. Visitors pay admission, and Curator Kurt swaps plain plants for splendid ones.
- 5 themed beds
- 66 spots
- Admission
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New
Garden Center
Behind your nursery a glass sales hall opens, with open-air tables and a parking lot. Customers come on foot and by car, drivers bring more money, and Garden Center George keeps the tables full.
- 40 sales spots
- 20 parking spaces
- Garden Center George
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New
Industrial Greenhouses
Across the street from the garden center stand two huge glass halls full of rolling benches. Under pink grow lights they raise plant after plant, and the delivery van takes them across the road. The garden center never runs empty.
- 6 plants a minute
- Delivery van
- Glows at night
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New
Price Wheel
You decide what your plants cost: spin the wheel, and it clicks into place in steps of 5. Too pricey, and customers hesitate. A bargain earns reputation, and whoever wished for the plant happily pays a little more.
- Steps of 5
- Bargains earn reputation
- Wish price +30%
Top secret
The Garden Center Gang
New in the game: a secret order for the rarest plants on Earth. Clones of famous single trees, seeds thought lost for good and plants from prehistoric times, brought back to life in the lab. You won't get any of them anywhere else.
Mr. Moos drags in a letter, sealed with green wax and a golden leaf. It holds just one sentence:
“Tonight, behind the industrial greenhouses.”
The initiation
“Your Aunt Erika was one of us, by the way.”
Godmother Hortensia takes you into the gang, and customs officer Zolli Zollinger makes it clear right away: everything goes by the papers. Then green and gold confetti rains down, and contacts appear on your world map that weren't there before.
You are initiated once your garden center and both industrial greenhouses stand. Until then, all of it stays invisible.
Three members, three roads to the impossible
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UniquesClone Clara
Hveragerði, Iceland
“One of a kind, just several times over.”
Grows clones of famous single plants in greenhouses on hot springs: Pando, Old Tjikko, General Sherman, Middlemist's Red and Wood's cycad, of which only one single male exists.
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RelicsSeed Sven
Tromsø, Norway
“Psst. Nobody has seen these seeds sprout in a hundred years. Until last week.”
Knows every seed bank in the north and gets lost plants sprouting again: the Methuselah date palm from a 2,000-year-old seed, the campion from the permafrost and the Oga lotus.
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PrehistoricProfessor Petra Petrify
Joggins, Canada
“Careful, the scale tree is 300 million years old. Well, its family is. It is three weeks old itself.”
Brings plants back from prehistoric times at the fossil cliffs of Joggins: from tiny Cooksonia, one of the first land plants, to the 40-metre scale tree.
By recommendation only
Seven places on no map
The gang gets you permits for places where the last of their kind grow. Your plant hunters bring back rarities that no dealer has.
- Sicily a fir with only about thirty trees left
- Tassili n'Ajjer trees from the time when the Sahara was green
- Hubei where the dawn redwood turned up alive in 1941
- St Helena Napoleon's exile, some species down to one or two plants
- Juan Fernández the island of the real Robinson Crusoe
- Wollemi dinosaur-age trees, undiscovered until 1994
- New Caledonia the oldest lineage of all flowering plants
Clone Clara's shop: uniques for millions 
The secret collection in your album 
Every plant with its origin and a note from the member
- 100secret plants
- 7secret places
- 2new rarity levels
- 4ranks
- ICandidateClone Clara, Sicily and the Sahara
- IIMemberSeed Sven, Hubei and St Helena, 5% off
- IIIConfidantProfessor Petrify, Juan Fernández and Wollemi, 10% off
- IVHonorary MemberNew Caledonia, 15% off
You earn trust with purchases, trips to secret places and every gang plant in your album. And the members buy your own offspring back from you.
Did you know?
- 1 male
is all anyone has ever found of Wood's cycad, in 1895 in the Ngoye Forest. Every plant in the world is a clone of it; no one has ever seen a female.
Unique - 32,000 years
old were the fruits that Ice Age ground squirrels hid in the permafrost. In 2012 researchers grew flowering plants from them.
Relic - 2,000 years
the Methuselah date palm's seed lay in the ruins of Masada, until it sprouted in 2005.
Relic - 47,000 stems
and yet a single plant: Pando, a quaking aspen, every stem from the same root.
Unique 
9,550 yearsold is the wood in the root stock of Old Tjikko, an unremarkable spruce in Sweden.
Unique
1 treeis all that is left of the loneliest palm in the world, in the Curepipe Botanic Garden on Mauritius.
Unique
Ready for the letter with the green seal?
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Plant hunters around the world
Put a crew together, buy gear and permits and send your plant hunters from Mexico to Borneo. On the way they report by radio, and they come back with crates full of seeds, cuttings and rarities. Members of the Garden Center Gang also get permits for seven secret places.
- 27 destinations
- 7 secret places
- Radio messages on the way
- Aunt Erika's diary
A living world
Day and night, spring to winter
In spring everything sprouts, in summer the pots dry out faster, in autumn the plant fair beckons, and in winter the tropical plants get cold. At night the pitchers glow, fireflies dance, and now and then there is a lunar eclipse.
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Questions
What does Blattgold cost?
Nothing. The game runs for free in your browser, without a download or an account.
Which devices does it run on?
Computers, tablets and phones with an up-to-date browser. On phones the interface adapts to the small screen.
Where is my save kept?
In your browser. In the menu you can copy a save code and use it to keep playing on another device.
Is Blattgold available in German too?
Yes. Blattgold speaks English and German, and you can switch the language at any time in the game.
Is Blattgold on itch.io?
Yes, at succulenttent.itch.io/blattgold. You can follow the game and leave comments there. Your save there is a separate one, because every site keeps its own storage in your browser. Take it along with the save code from the menu.
What is the Garden Center Gang?
A secret order for the late game. Once your garden center and both industrial greenhouses stand, you are initiated: three members sell you 100 extremely rare plants you can't get anywhere else, and seven secret places open up for expeditions. Until then, all of it stays invisible. More about the gang
Do the plants really exist?
Yes, every species is real, with its real origin. The game tells you something fascinating about each of them.
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