Just like in previous games, players can crossbreed their flowers in New Horizons to make their island more vibrant. Additionally, there are new breeds of flowers such as mums, hyacinths and windflowers, meaning that there are now eight different types of flowers in the game. Your island will have three native breeds.

The first can be found once you have obtained a ladder whilst helping Tom Nook, and the other two breeds (alongside the first) can be purchased in the form of seeds from Nook’s Cranny. If you’re lucky, you may find new breeds of flowers on deserted island. However, the best solution is to visit the island of a friend who has them.

Crossbreeding flowers to create hybrids can take some time and patience, but is fairly simple if you place flowers correctly and water them daily, if it isn’t raining. So let’s get to it, here’s how to create hybrids in Animal Crossing: New Horizons.

The eight different types of flowers available in Animal Crossing: New Horizons are:

• Mums
• Hyacinths
• Windflowers
• Tulips
• Roses
• Lillies
• Cosmos
• Pansies

Like in previous games, you will need to place two different colours of the same breed of flower in a checkerboard-like pattern (shown below). This will give space for hybrids to grow.

If you water them daily, or let the rain do it for you (you can tell if flowers are watered as they will sparkle), then hybrids will eventually begin to sprout.

Below are all of the hybrids discovered so far, and what two colours of each breed you need in order to obtain them.

Mums

• White + Red = Pink
• White + White = Purple
• Purple + Purple = Green

Hyacinths

• White + Red = Pink
• White + White = Blue
• Yellow + Red = Orange
• Blue + Blue = Purple

Windflowers

• Red + Orange = Pink
• Orange + White = Blue
• White + White = Blue
• Blue + Pink = Purple
• Blue + Blue = Purple

Tulips

• Red + White = Pink
• Red + Yellow = Orange
• Red + Red = Black
• Orange + Orange = Purple

Roses

• Red + White = Pink
• Red + Yellow = Orange
• Red + Red = Black
• White + White = Purple
• Orange + Orange = Blue
• Black + Black (and watered with golden watering can) = Gold

Lillies

• Red + White = Pink
• Red + Yellow = Orange
• Red + Red = Black

Cosmos

• Red + White = Pink
• Red + Yellow = Orange
• Red + Red = Black

Pansies

• White + White = Blue
• Red + Yellow = Orange
• Red + Red = Purple
• Orange + Orange = Purple
• Blue + Blue = Purple