Watch your garden grow
1971
Intellect UK
 
First produced
1971
Players
2 to 4
Age(s)
5+
             
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1 x playing board
4 x gardens, one for each player
4 x plastic gardener playing pieces
1 x flower pot dice shaker
1 x dice
1 x mother nature's garden shop (This is the bottom of the game box and sits in the middle of the board)
1 x tray which holds the seeds and plants (kept in mother nature's garden shop)
The contents of mother nature's garden shop;
- 4 apple trees, 4 pear trees, 16 roses in bloom, 16 roses as shrubs, 8 tomatoes in fruit, 8 tomatoes as seeds, 8 cucumbers fully grown, 8 cucumbers as seeds, 8 pansies in bloom, 8 petunias in bloom, 12 daffodils in bloom, 12 daffodils as bulbs, 4 tulips in bloom, 4 tulips as bulbs, 4 dahlias in bloom, 4 dahlias as corms, 4 lupins in bloom and 4 lupins as seeds
1 x rules booklet

 

Each player is a gardener with a greenhouse. By moving around the board, working through the seasons, players pick up seeds and bulbs and bring them to bloom. Naturally enough, pests and bad weather play their part too. The first player to bring their garden into bloom with every space in the garden filled with plants, wins the game. Some of these plants bloom from seeds, bulbs or corms; others can be planted fully grown.

 

This is a beautiful yet simple game and is now rare. It needs more luck than green fingers to win but is a very entertaining way for young children to learn a little about plants and flowers. It is similar to a game produced in the 1930s called Plantit. View a list of challenging games by Intellect Games from the 1970s.