Zen Garden (PvZ)

Zen Garden is a stress-free (apart from the stress of not picking up coins and therefore losing money) environment obtained by completing the Adventure level 5-4.

Two other gardens, the Mushroom Zen Garden and Aquatic Zen Garden, are available to purchase for $30,000 each. Other items purchased at the store including Zen Fertillizer ($750 for 5 bags), the Phonograph ($15,000 for unlimited uses), and Bug Spray ($1,000 for 5 sprays) can be purchased at the store.

Once a day the player is allowed to make the fully-grown Zen Garden plants happy. The simplest way to make the Zen Garden plant happy is to feed it chocolate. The player must water the plants with the watering can as requested. After each successful watering the plants will drop a silver coin ($10) and after the several waterings the plant will request either the phonograph or bug spray. If the plant is then provided the correct items asked for or is fed chocolate, it will glow with a gold aura and reward the player with two or more gold coins (the plant will not give more than two gold coins unless it was fed chocolate). This signifies that the plant is fully happy. If the coins dropped after the plant achieved happiness were picked up the plant will continue to drop silver or gold coins randomly throughout the rest of the day. The player can either pick them up manually or purchase Stinky The Snail to do this task.

Three Zen Marigold seedlings are available for sale each day at Dave's Twiddledinkies for $2,500 each and can be sold for $3,000 when fully grown. A Gardening Glove costs $1,000 and lets the player move plants. A wheelbarrow can be purchased after one or both other gardens are bought, and is used to transport plants between gardens. It can be used as a replacement Gardening Glove though it is slightly harder to use.

There is 32 available spaces for Zen Garden plants in the main Zen Garden. Zen Garden plants can be obtained by either buying marigolds from the shop or picking Zen Garden plants up after they are dropped by zombies. Dropped Zen Garden plants include marigolds and any non-upgraded Zen Garden plant (meaning that you will never get a Gloom-shroom or Gatling Pea, for example). Day plants (includes Grave busters and Planterns) can be sold for $8,000 when fully-grown and Mushrooms can be sold for $10,000. I'm not sure about aquatic plants, but I think they are probably $10,000. Mushrooms and aquatic plants will not mature past the first stage or allow themselves to be happy unless they are in their respective environments (buy them at the shop), but if they are happy, they will not drop coins unless they are in the normal garden or you give them chocolate. They will stay awake in the normal garden if and only if you keep them happy.