Plants look dead while being in season/inside and functional

Maybe a silly question, but do you have Seasons? Plants, including build mode plants, have seasonal appearance (e.g. blooming in summer, dormant bush in winter)

yeah it summer and all/most are in season 

Could you please provide the following information

• Are you using mods/cc in your game ? Please remove them and test without them if you do.
• Does it happen in all worlds or only certain ones ?
• Coudl you please post a pic ?

I've noticed this in my vanilla base game save.  They don't all appear brown, but sometimes despite being watered and cared for, it will have the appearance of being dry.  Then it will randomly turn nicely green out of nowhere (no pattern I've noticed between travelling off the lot, when I water or fertilize it, etc.) and then maybe  few days later it looks dry again even when it's not.  I'm still checking to see if there's a pattern, like a specific plant, but as it otherwise is functional and healthy, I kind of put my investigating it on the back burner for now.

no mods on my computer at all. it happens in all world unless im in manage world then it looks fine.

i have tried uninstalling and reinstalling everything but same problem 

Found an older thread here: [OPEN] Plants look dead while being in season/inside and functional | EA Forums - 11560701 

Does that look the same ?

yes but no plants look alive