@Liteblob Well, I caved and got CoL ... and it's all your fault! ;-) Half-joking. So, to clarify, all the plants I've tested so far are newly planted, never sprouted plants. Once CoL finished downloading and I could get back in the game, I went in and tested these plants again using both plain and mounded garden patches. Nothing changed. All the veggies tested had the option to evolve in planted/dirt pile state. None of the trees had the option, neither did some of the flowers; bluebell, daisy, orchid and rose. The flowers that did have the option were christmas rose, chrysanthemum, dahlia, begonia and chamomile.
Since it sort of sounds like the dirt pile bug only involves plants that had sprouted and reverted back to dirt pile, I'm still not convinced this is a bug. I tried looking for related articles or posts but was unable to find anthing. I do believe that trees were not meant to evolve while in the planted / dirt pile state while some of the other plants can. However, the reason for this eludes me.
@Liteblob Apologies for the confusion. Allow me to rephrase to say that I don't think what you're reporting is the same as the dirt pile bug that crin suggested. I just think that some newly planted plants (veggies, fruits and some flowers) have the option to evolve while in the planted state, but others (trees and some flowers) do not have that option. I could be wrong but I don't think that is a bug but just part of the design for some reason. Perhaps one of the community managers will investigate and let us know if it is by design.
