Wild Plants?

Also try searching the public space around your lot. There might be some harvestable wild flowers along the jogging paths.

This is not true, they don't eventually grow unless you're on the spot.
You have to be on the location and spend the time there doing nothing. It's probably a bug or deliberate feature when they add fairy house so you can at least sleep.

At least that's how both secret areas work in my game. Nothing moved for couple of weeks in them till I started to just stand there.
It's so "fun" I can't even explain it.

"JoxerTM22;12653530" wrote:
This is not true, they don't eventually grow unless you're on the spot.
You have to be on the location and spend the time there doing nothing. It's probably a bug or deliberate feature when they add fairy house so you can at least sleep.

At least that's how both secret areas work in my game. Nothing moved for couple of weeks in them till I started to just stand there.
It's so "fun" I can't even explain it.

so you mean that when you send your sim out to jog there, it's best to let them do some push ups, or other forms of work out around the area, maybe place a bench and let them read or have your kid do their homework while waiting :-)

"JoxerTM22;12653530" wrote:
This is not true, they don't eventually grow unless you're on the spot.
You have to be on the location and spend the time there doing nothing. It's probably a bug or deliberate feature when they add fairy house so you can at least sleep.

At least that's how both secret areas work in my game. Nothing moved for couple of weeks in them till I started to just stand there.
It's so "fun" I can't even explain it.

That's how it worked for the tulip and lemon trees near the Landgraab house as well. I had to send my sim over there everyday she had off of work just to hang out until they bloomed.

The plants and gardening along with cooking with fresh produce they grow has kept me from not abandoning the game all together. I really love the whole gardening aspect TS4 has. Grafting plants with others and trying new combos has keep the game interesting for me. Unfortunately though I wanted to buy & play 'The Sims 4' -not- 'Grow a Garden with The Sims in the 4th Game of the Series'

@mommaleeblee6977 This thread is three years old. Necroposting is against the forum rules. You might have to look for a more recent relevant thread, as there have been updates and the seasons expansion since then that influence the wild plants.

Edit: I just saw that "popping into revived threads to educate others on the Necroposting rule" is also a "don't", my bad!

Thanks, it is good to know that it is possible, I will keep trying and post again if I am successful.

Thanks for the feedback guys, I will try your method next Joxer as I am having no luck with revisiting the places where the plants are growing.

I tried many times but never managed to harvest the wild plants I was after. My Sim eventually gained the skill enough to graft plants and that is the only way I managed to get them?

green it's possible it worked that way when the game was released, but it's also possible that those two (or were there three?) game updates broke it.
some bugs were fixed with those updates but some new emerged.