Zen Garden (PvZ2)


 * For the version in Plants vs. Zombies, see Zen Garden (Plants vs. Zombies).

The Zen Garden is a virtual garden where the player keeps plants that he or she has collected. The Zen Garden returns in Plants vs. Zombies 2 and acts similar to the Zen Garden in the first game. It was added to Plants vs. Zombies 2 along with the Far Future update.

Plants
Plants have two stages of growth. Upon reaching the time of the first growth, the plant grows and requires water again while providing five silver coins ($50). Upon reaching the time of the second growth, the plant grows and provides a boost. The boosted plant can be used in the game for one level, where it activates its effect as if Plant Food was given once planted. Once the boosted plant is used, the plant disappears in the garden. Marigolds can also be planted but produce five of each coin upon reaching its growth stage. They produce no boost (as they cannot be planted in game) and thus disappear upon reaching the second growth stage. Occasionally, Bernie the Bee can be found in the garden. Guiding him to a plant will reduce the growth time of the plant by 10%. There is a small chance the growth time will be reduced by 20%, and a tiny chance that it will be reduced by 50%.

Plants can planted on six pots, but the player can spend 20 gems to buy an extra pot, and the maximum number of pots is twelve.

When killing a zombie it may drop a sprout, which when planted, grows into one of the plants. Those plants can be then watered to grow them further. There are two types of plants:

Marigold
Marigold can only be used in the Zen Garden without hacking. After its first phase of growing it will drop five silver coins. After its second phase it will drop five golden coins and disappear giving the player 550 coins in total.

Other plants
Every other plant will drop five silver coins after its first phase of growing. After their second phase of growing, they will create a Plant Food Boost. Players can then decide if they want to activate it. After activating it, the plant's pot will start glowing.

Trivia

 * When the player waters Torchwood, its flames go out. So far, this is the only place it can be seen without its flames.
 * This also applies to Pepper-pult, but its pepper burns again after smashing it three times.
 * Again, this also applies to Fire Peashooter, but it turns into a regular Peashooter, then turns back into a Fire Peashooter again.
 * Same thing happens to Lava Guava, but it restores its lava after a period of time.
 * The Zen Garden features a ship's steering wheel, a pyramid in the background, a lawn gnome with Crazy Dave's face on it, a Sunflower rocking chair, and a boomerang.
 * If one looks out the windows of the garden, the lawn outside is that of the player's house.
 * This Zen Garden does not include instant plants such as Cherry Bomb and Grave Buster since plants give Plant Food Boosts and instant plants do not have Plant Food effects.
 * As with the original Zen Garden, changing the device's time can be used to speed up the growth of plants without using gems or Bernie the Bee.
 * If the player enters the Zen Garden from any Endless Zone and returns, the zombies, plankless rows, and ice blocks will shift and change. Previously, this would remove the 200 sun, extra lawn mower, or extra Plant Food from a card if done.
 * Before the 2.3 update, when the player enters the Zen Garden from the Endless Zone, all plants would be unlocked upon return, but this would last for one level.
 * In the 2.1 update, Bernie the Bee had the possibility of not sleeping on the cobweb. Instead, he could be seen sleeping between the third and fourth pot in the first row.
 * Each plant has a "happy" animation after being watered, unlike the first game.
 * When a multiplying plant uses a boost, the plants it launches out also activate the ability, but they do not launch anymore.
 * Plants that appeared in Plants vs. Zombies Adventures have a happy animation similar to their winning animation.
 * The music in the Zen Garden seems to be completely made from clapping hands, clicking fingers, a shaker and and wind-chime things of some sort.
 * A part of the music is taken from Plants vs. Zombies Adventures, while another section is taken from the Ancient Egypt theme.
 * There is a gnome in the background with Crazy Dave's face.
 * There is a fertilizer bag with Sunflower's face on it.
 * When the player waters a plant, there is always a faint rainbow above the plant for a very short time.
 * Exiting the Zen Garden can cause the watering can to disappear but the happy animations to restart, but the growth time will not reset, so it is possible for the plant to grow or give a boost immediately after being watered and reacting.
 * Bernie the Bee sleeps if used, but disappears if one leaves the Zen Garden.
 * Bernie the Bee sleeps less if farther away.
 * A glitch may occur rarely in which all plants will have over 3000 hours left to boost.
 * This is currently the only area in the game where Flower Pots are seen.
 * A glitch can occur occasionally in which if the mobile device has no Internet connection that when planting a plant and waiting until its second growth, the second growth can show a humongous time left (an example would be 1245 hours 56 minutes). Connecting to the internet will reset the glitch.
 * When aquatic plants like Lily Pad and Tangle Kelp are planted, the flower pots are automatically filled up with water.
 * The time for plants (except Marigold) to grow varies on the amount of gems it takes to boost in a level on the seed selection screen:
 * Plants that cost 10 gems at the seed selection screen is 30 minutes and then 3 hours.
 * Plants that cost 12 gems at the seed selection screen is 1 hour and then 4 hours.
 * Plants that cost 15 gems at the seed selection screen is 1 hour and 30 minutes and then 6 hours.
 * Noticably, the second growth takes four times as much time as the first growth, although with Marigold, the second growth takes twenty times as long.
 * The maximum amount of Marigolds player can keep is three.