Summary
The Cherry Blossom Season is a short window of only ten days inAnimal Crossing: New Horizons. All of your fruitless hardwood trees are transformed from their usual green leaves to wondrous cherry blossoms that not only rest in the trees themselves but float around your island too.
Different DIY recipes make use of cherry blossom petals, but just the trees themselves allow you to decorate and change the look of your entire island. This creates so many opportunities to hop into your game and rearrange or update your seasonal look. But if you aren’t sure where you want to start, fear not! These tips will help you get started.
There are 14 different DIY recipes that you can find and craft. You can find these recipes by popping balloons and opening the presents they drop.
8Start Indoors
Some of the cherry blossom DIY recipes are, unfortunately, meant to be used indoors only. But that’s more than okay asyou can decorate not only your home, but the homes of your villagersto match this time of year.
And, if you start decorating the interior of your home, it’s a small space (or spaces if you do up multiple floors). This can let you test out ideas that you want to utilize outdoors. Especially since placing items inside is much easier than getting them in the perfect position outside.
7Decorate Your Front Yard
If you just take a few steps outside your home, that is the next location you can start to decorate. Now you can begin to incorporate cherry blossom trees as well as pink, white, or any color of flower you would like.
The idea displayed is that of a sitting and picnic area where your character can plop down and read, create a scrapbook, or just enjoy the sights of the new, pink environment. But, of course, that’s not what you’re limited to. With so many themes, like Modern, Cottage Core, or Farmhouse, you can pick a theme and match items from the cherry blossom season that work with your look.
6Decorate Your Neighbors' Yards
Do you want your villagers to join in on the fun? They won’t on their own, but that is why Tom Nook gifted you the powers of a god that can rearrange not just items but the land and water of the island. Instead of using these powers for good or bad, you can use them to make everything pretty and aesthetically pleasing.
You can lay down paths in front ofyour neighbors' homes and then set up items to tell a story that is relevant to the character. Or just to make their home match the overall vibe the island is giving off.
To most efficiently decorate, have a storage shed on your person, as well as a DIY desk so that you can quickly put things away, grab items from your home’s storage, or craft things on the go instead of having to run back home multiple times for everything.
5Decorate The Island Shops
To further tie in the look and feel of your island, you don’t have to stop with your house or the homes of your villagers. Take to the streets to decorate theexteriors of both Nook’s Cranny and the Able Sister’s clothing store.
Much like with your neighbors, you’re able to use and place items that seem relevant to each store. But you can also just play with the theme you’ve chosen for your island. For example, if you have your shops in a town square arrangement, you can have a cherry blossom tree in the middle of it with the viewing lanterns on the sides of the shops, cherry blossom branches next to park benches, and a set-up of pink items for display outside, like the shop owners are hosting a sale of items that match the season.
4Decorate Your Resident Services Area
Anyone who’s been playing New Horizons knows that, to the frustration of the players, you can’t directly decorate or change your Resident Services building. But you can change the space around it and decorate near it.
Plant cherry blossom trees all around the square, and put up fun items that pop out against them. You can create all kinds of scenes or vignettes around your Resident Services that elevate the theme you’ve chosen and tie the entire island together.
3Use Different Trees And Plants
Depending on how much you love the cherry blossom trees, you might be tempted to use only the hardwood saplings and the pink variety of flowers. But that can be so limiting when it comes to design.
Using cedar and bamboo trees, as well as placing shrubs and different colored flowers can help give your island a more natural look, if you are going for that. you may also stunt trees before they finish growing so that their heights all vary.
To stunt trees, you’ll want to wait until the tree has grown to the maturity you want. Once it’s there, you plant another tree directly to the back, sides, or even front of it. This will prevent both trees from growing any further.
2Create A Forest
If you want to make the most of using the cherry blossom trees, you can always make a forest filled with them. And just because you dedicate land to this cherry blossom forest, it isn’t as limiting or rigid as you might think at first.
you’re able to make this part of a natural, community farm.It can be a gyroid forest filled with different pink gyroids, dancing along to your favorite music. It can be a bee farm or a butterfly sanctuary. There are tons of options to go with.
1Make A Nightscape
Who said that cherry blossoms could only be enjoyed during the day? You can craft your entire island or just a piece of it to be a beautiful place to escape to at night. Thanks to the star fragments and star DIYs, as well as so many lanterns that are available in the game for decorating, this is a pretty easy thing to achieve.
That and the blossom viewing lantern is a cherry blossom DIY that will bring light into any area. Placing those along with other light sources can make a space look and feel more mystical at night than it would during the day.
