Celebrate Virtual Gardening at the Pixel Petal & Plant Festival in There.com!
Spring is in the air, and the Thereian community is ready to celebrate with the Pixel Petal & Plant Festival! From March 19th through the 31st, join us in There.com for a vibrant, fun-filled festival dedicated to virtual gardening. Whether you want to plant colorful flowers, ferns, vineyards, fruit orchards, or even a victory garden, this event is the perfect opportunity to flex your green thumb in the digital world.
Exciting Events & Activities
The festival is packed with engaging activities for everyone. Enjoy garden tours, play garden gin, participate in cross-country racing, test your luck at BINGO, join flotillas, and challenge yourself with trivia. Win garden-themed prizes and Therebucks in a variety of fun competitions.
Spring Garden Contest
Starting March 19th, create your own stunning virtual garden and enter it into the Spring Garden Contest for a chance to win special prizes. The grand prize and runner-up winners will receive exclusive garden gifts. For more details, be sure to read the official Spring Garden Contest blog post.
Highlighted Festival Events
Pixel Petal & Plant Festival events are being added daily. Check the Activities Page for updated events not listed below. Make sure to sign up ahead of time so you don’t miss out on all of the fun.
March 19th, 4:00 PM Pacific – Nellie Rachel’s Garden Gin Event
Stop and smell the roses while playing a few rounds of no-elimination gin. Win fantastic prizes and enjoy the beauty of virtual blooms.
March 21st, 1:00 PM Pacific – Petals & Plants Cross Country Racing
Grab your hoverpack and embark on a thrilling race through a digital garden. Follow blooming clues and navigate a lush world of botanical beauty—but beware of pixelated pollen that might cause a few glitches!
March 22nd, 4:00 pm Pacific – Dragon Rider’s Pixel and Petal Gin
Join your host LadyMisty for a weekly card game of gin during the Pixel Petal & Plant Festival. There is a dice roll for doubles if you lose and a separate dice roll celebrating Spring! This is a Gin combined event.
March 24th, 6:00 PM Pacific – Butterfly Garden BINGO
Join Susanszy and the Bingo Maniacs Club for a garden-themed BINGO night, sponsored by Mahalo Village. Remember to grab your BINGO card beforehand and join the Bingo Maniacs group IM window to hear the numbers being called.
March 26th, 4:00 PM Pacific – Garden Gin with Nellie Rachel
Meet at Dolores Island for a fun evening of cards among the flowers. Bring a partner and test your skills in a friendly round of Gin.
March 26th, 6:00 pm Pacific – BABS Ladybug Picnic
Hop on the back of a ladybug and fly through the gardens of There during the Bay Area Boat System’s Ladybug Picnic Floatila. Captain your own ship or hitch a ride with friends. Meet the BABS group at the Zona Island BABS Tower. Keep in touch with fellow participants by joining the BABS IM window.
March 31st, 6:00 PM Pacific – Pixel Garden BINGO
Close out the festival at the There Community Gardens with Pixel Garden BINGO, hosted by Susanszy and sponsored by There.com. Play for a chance to win 20,000 Therebucks!
Don’t miss this incredible opportunity to embrace the beauty of virtual gardening and participate in an array of exciting events. Mark your calendars and get ready to dig into the fun at the Pixel Petal & Plant Festival in There.com!
2025 Spring Garden Contest
All residents of There.com are invited to participate in the Spring Garden Contest to showcase their gardening skills. Members who enter the contest will design, build and create a virtual garden experience for the Thereian community to explore. Gardeners are welcome to use their imagination and creativity to plant all types of gardens. Build your garden from scratch or work on adding the final touches to an existing garden. Explore the garden Auctions to search for this season’s newest garden designs and a nursery of virtual flowers, plants, shrubs, trees and more to plant with.
Design a vibrant flower garden with an assortment of colorful blooms such as roses, tulips, daisies and sunflowers. Include decorative elements like garden benches, bird baths and statues to add ambiance.
Transform your virtual space into a lush jungle paradise with towering palm trees, dense foliage and exotic flowers. Integrate water features like waterfalls, ponds and lily pads. Populate the jungle with wildlife like monkeys, parrots and butterflies to bring the virtual environment to life.
Construct a tranquil rock garden featuring a variety of ornamental rocks and boulders. Introduce elements like Japanese lanterns, bamboo or bonsai trees for a Zen like aesthetic.
Whether you choose to cultivate a victory garden, tulip field, hemp farm or alternative crystal garden, let your imagination flourish and showcase your gardening skills in the There.com Spring Garden Contest!
Plant your garden on a small plot of land or over a sprawling estate, all are welcome to participate. Enter your garden into the contest for a chance at winning the Garden Grand Prize or the runner up prize for Green Thumb Gardner. To enter, simply plant your garden in the virtual world There.com and email the subject line “Garden Contest” to feedback@thereinc.com. Include your Avatar name and a link or the doid to your garden in your email entry. The garden submission deadline is Saturday, March 29th at 6:00 pm Pacific. As a token of appreciation, every participating gardener will receive a special garden gift and will be sent an entry confirmation email.
The Garden Grand Prize and the Green Thumb Gardener Prize will be determined by luck of the draw. Garden entries will be assigned a number in order of when their garden entry email was received. Once all of the contest applications have been received, a winning number will be chosen from a random number generator. The winner of the grand prize will receive a month of free rent plus a special garden gift. The runner up winner will receive bragging rights and a special garden gift.
Best of luck to all of our garden participants! The Spring Garden Contest is a Pixel Petal & Plant Festival event happening March 19th through March 31st.
Farewell Botanical Gardens
The Botanical Society of There established a one-of-a-kind Botanical Garden Neighborhood in the Virtual World There.com representing the majority of flora and fauna created by Designers. Charlie__BST and Susanszy restored and maintained the lush and beautiful Botanical Gardens Neighborhood for many years for all Thereians to enjoy. The master gardeners have been able to extend the life of the garden over the years through generous donations. The unique Botanical Gardens have reached the end of life.
Many of the individual types of flora and fauna in the Botanical Gardens were created by Designers who no longer participate in the Developer Program and have not recently relisted their items in Auctions. As a tribute to the Botanical Society of There, you’ll find the View Decor link for each garden type planted in the Botanical Gardens listed below. View Decor shows a catalog of each type of flora and fauna used in each individual garden.
BST Mangrove Swamp – View Decor
BST Ash & Beech Forest – View Decor
BST Christmas Trees – View Decor
BST Desert – View Decor
BST Enchanted Woods – View Decor
BST Evergreens – View Decor
BST Farming – View Decor
BST Forest – View Decor
BST Greenhouse – View Decor
BST Lighthouse – View Decor
BST Manor Charlie’s Home – View Decor
BST Maple Trees – View Decor
BST Mediterranean – View Decor
BST Oak Forest – View Decor
BST Plaza – View Decor
BST Rock Garden – View Decor
BST Rose Garden – View Decor
BST Therehenge – View Decor
BST Vineyard – View Decor
BST Windmill – View Decor
BST Water’s Edge – View Decor
Dave’s Australian Forest – View Decor
BST Water Garden – View Decor
Botanical Gardens Neighborhood – View Decor
View the Botanical Gardens photo album on Facebook.
Spring Garden Contest
The Spring Garden Festival is in full bloom in the virtual world There.com. We invite all Thereians who plant a garden this year to enter the 2020 Spring Garden Contest. We have a special garden gift for all participating gardeners and there will be a garden grand prize for a lucky dice-roll winner.
Gardens come in all shapes and sizes. Any size Lot, PAZ or Neighborhood is welcome to enter the Spring Garden Contest. To enter the contest, plant your virtual garden in There and then email the subject line “Garden Contest” to feedback@thereinc.com and include your Avatar name along with a link to your garden. Participants have until Sunday, May 17th at 6:00 PM Pacific to submit their garden entries. A special garden gift and entry confirmation email will be sent to all gardeners.
On Tuesday, May 19th dress in your finest fashion for a fancy Garden Tea Party celebrating the Spring Garden Contest winner. A dice-roll will be held at the beginning of the event for all gardeners who participated the contest. The gardener with the highest number rolled will win the garden grand prize. After the dice-roll and tea time, we will embark on a tour of the garden entries. Sign up for the Garden Tea party starting at 5:00 PM Pacific on May 19th. Gardeners must be present at the dice-roll for a chance to win the grand prize.
If you have not planted your virtual garden in There yet, search Garden Auctions for items like flowers, plants and trees to get an idea of what kind of garden you’d be interested in growing. Designers are adding new flora and gardening tools every week during the Spring Garden Festival.
As an additional bonus for submitting an entry to the Spring Garden Contest, the Garden Committee will be keeping an eye out for special themed gardens. If your garden entry is one of the Spring Garden Festival weekly themes you may be awarded a special garden trophy by the Garden Committee. There will be a different garden theme for each week in the month of May during the festival. Week one will feature flower gardens. Trees, forests and jungles will take the spotlight for the second week. Vegetable gardens will be celebrated in week three and the last week of May will feature fruit, orchards and vineyards.
Gardening in the real-world can be an outlet for people stuck at home during the COVID-19 crisis. For those folks who cannot escape outside and dig their hands in the earth, the virtual world There offers a place for people to garden, relax and take their mind off things. Join us during the Spring Garden Festival in the month of May to celebrate virtual gardens in There.
Spring Garden Festival
April showers bring May flowers. During the month of May, the Thereian community will celebrate virtual gardening. Grow your own flowers, ferns, vineyards, fruit orchards and victory gardens in There.com during the Spring Garden Festival.
Enjoy garden tours, a fashion show, games, quests, a decorating contest, real-world gardening education and more. Win spring prizes at some of the different garden parties and events throughout the month of May.
The community will be growing all different types of gardens in There during the Spring Garden Festival. Weekly garden themes will start on Friday, May 1st. Week one will feature flowers and ferns. Trees, forests and jungles will take the spotlight for week two. Victory gardens are making a comeback and will be celebrated in week three. The fourth and final week will be dedicated to fruit, orchards and vineyards.
You can plant your virtual garden almost anywhere in There. If you are looking for dirt to till, there are plots of land available to cultivate at the There Community Garden. All new tenants who plant a garden during the month of May will be entered into a dice roll for one month worth of free rent in the Community Gardens. Join the There Community Gardens Club to rent a virtual garden plot.
Keep an eye out for upcoming details about the Spring Garden Decorating Contest in There during the month of May. All gardeners will receive a garden gift for participating in the decorating contest and four themed gardens will earn a special 2020 Spring Garden Contest trophy.
You don’t have to have an actual green thumb to grow a garden in the Virtual World There. Vegetation magically exists without water and thrives from round the clock artificial sunlight. Search the Auctions for the latest garden goods and plant your own virtual garden in There.
There Community Garden Open House
Celebrate the return of the Community Garden by planting your own piece of paradise in There! The There Community Garden offers a variety of Lots where you can join other members in planting trees, flowers and plants for the entire community to enjoy. Join Staff on Wednesday, July 6th at 5:30 PM PST for the Community Garden Open House event!
There are several new affordable garden Lots available for members interested in exercising their green thumbs, including 1/4-Acre, 1/2-Acre and 1-Acre Development Lots. If you haven’t seen the Garden yet, take a tour and explore its beautiful sights.
To start decorating your own Garden Lot, first join the Development Group. Then visit the garden Development Lots available for rent to find the perfect location. Flat green Lots are available in the lower region of the garden, perfect for placing rows of fruit and vegetables. Hillside Development Lots are located in the upper region of the garden for a greater building challenge.
Once you’ve found a Lot you really like, check out the latest landscape and garden designs in Auctions for a wide selection of items to plant in your garden. Have fun and let your creativity bloom!
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