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#1 wiki | comment Topics: Edit question: edit sworndevotion asked on Log - August 2025/Pre Event FAQ at 2025-08-03 Answer date: 2025-08-03	If this info is incoming on the event, feel free to ignore- but I've been meaning to ask what sorts of public gardens and greenhouses (or abandoned lots with good soil) may exist within the city, and whether augmented would be able to use any. I know the flowers prompt is more geared toward collecting things outside city borders, but there are a few characters interested in setting a little garden up inside the city and I'm wondering where they might be able to do that! Thanks!	Karteria has its public gardens, and they're highly manicured, intended for beautification rather than any ecological benefit. No growing of crops, no pollination opportunities for insects... Aside from the ones obviously available in the parks, there are some rooftop gardens available as well—and these gardens are... intended for aesthetics. Though flowers grow in these places, Flowery Language is hoping to get some flowers that they don't have to ransack public and private gardens for. Greenhouses in Karteria are all private, and would be most likely spotted at an individual's residence. Small, dingy and desperately clamoring for real estate, these greenhouses aren't often effective within city limits: only the hardiest of vegetation seem to do well. Plant life within city limits in general doesn't flourish well, particularly sensitive crops and vegetation. This is true even in parks and gardens, as whoever keeps them full and bright ends up using some of the same cultivars across the whole city... If you live here, you start to notice that they're using the same flowers over and over again. The reason? The barrier itself seems to filter out some frequencies of light, which isn't the greatest for sensitive species. So greenhouses are small, often in someone's tiny backyard or balcony, and usually end up as storage sheds. The majority of plant growin' takes place on the farms just beyond Karteria's barrier, where there's not quite the same durability of barrier there to shield the farmlands. It's scarcely sustainable, but they make do. Growing flowers are scarcely a priority there, either. (Terra-types may appreciate the great outdoors more than Karteria's city, but it's not necessarily that they're impacted by the barrier's filtering. They're lucky, in that they've already got a living host! Still... being in the wilderness is a Terra-type's calling.)