Grow a Garden Easter Event 2026 Recap: Candy Blossom, Easter Garden & Everything Added
The Easter Event 2026 was Grow a Garden's biggest seasonal update to date, running from April 4, 2026 for approximately five weeks across five content parts — the first GaG event ever structured as a five-part rollout. At the time it wrapped, it held the record for the longest GaG event ever, and that record was well-earned: new seeds, exclusive pets, a dedicated garden plot, a competitive Egg Hunt, and a full Season Pass all ran in parallel. This recap covers everything that was added and which rewards turned out to matter long after the event ended.
The Easter Garden Plot
The headline structural feature of the Easter Event was the introduction of a dedicated Easter Garden plot — a separate growing area that existed alongside your regular farm, designed exclusively for event seeds. This was the first time GaG had sectioned off a plot specifically for seasonal content, and it came with a notable restriction: no pets were allowed inside the Easter Garden. That meant all the familiar pet-based growth boosts and harvest multipliers you relied on in your main garden did not apply here. You had to work with raw seed stats and whatever mutations your crops picked up naturally.
The Easter Garden pushed players to engage with the new seed lineup on its own terms, rather than just dropping event seeds into an already-optimized pet-heavy setup. It was a meaningful design choice that gave the event its own identity, separate from the everyday farm loop.
Chocolate Coins: The Event Currency
Choc Coins (Chocolate Coins) were the Easter Event's dedicated currency, and the primary way to earn them was by growing Easter crops and selling them at the Easter Sell Stand on the event island's central area. The rarer the crop and the more mutations it carried, the more Choc Coins it yielded per sale.
Secondary sources of Choc Coins included:
- Egg Hunt completions — finishing a full hunt round had a chance to award Choc Coins among other random rewards.
- Evil Bunny quests — an NPC who periodically asked players to destroy renewable plants with the Shovel tool, rewarding Choc Coins on completion.
Choc Coins fed into the Easter Seed Shop, where prices ranged from a few coins for common Easter seeds up to tens of thousands for premium items. Golden Eggs were also purchasable from the shop, but each purchase doubled the price for the next one — making early acquisition significantly more efficient.
The Egg Hunt: How It Worked
Every 15 minutes, ten hidden eggs scattered across the map in new locations — kicking off a timed community scramble. Collecting all ten earned a random reward: Choc Coins, Chocolate Sprinklers, Golden Eggs, or Easter Crates. The egg placement was randomized each cycle rather than fixed, keeping the hunt from becoming purely mechanical.
A separate activity, the Egg War, ran every 60 minutes and operated differently: five eggs spawned and players competed to hold them, with opponents able to knock eggs out of a player's hands using the Shovel tool.
The Egg Hunt wasn't a one-time activity. It repeated continuously throughout the event, making it a reliable recurring loop alongside the core farming and selling cycle.
New Seeds Added
The Easter Event introduced a substantial lineup of new event seeds, available through the Easter Seed Shop, Easter Eggs, or special event mechanics. Confirmed additions included:
| Seed | Notes |
|---|---|
| Waddling Willow | Distinctive event-exclusive tree crop |
| Marshmallow Root | Soft, pastel-themed root vegetable |
| Bonnet Bloom | Flower-type seed with Easter aesthetic |
| Egg Shroom | Mushroom variant, egg-patterned cap |
| Bunny Berry | Berry crop |
| Egg Melon | Added to the seed crafting table |
| Basket Bouquet | Event-exclusive floral seed |
| Jelly Bean Sprout | Candy-themed sprout variant |
| Sugar Snapdragon | Sweet-themed snap variety |
| Candy Blossom 2026 / Elder Candy Blossom | Returning fan-favorite; remained meta-relevant after event |
Candy Blossom deserves special attention. Unlike the rest of the lineup, Candy Blossom was not a new seed — it was a returning crop that the developers brought back specifically so players who had missed it previously could obtain it. Acquiring the first Candy Blossom Seed required 50 Golden Eggs and a Candy Blossom Shard (earned by submitting crops to Jim's progression track). Despite being a returning item, it quickly re-established itself as one of the stronger crops in the meta, maintaining competitive relevance well after the event closed. If you are evaluating crops for your current farm setup, check the Grow a Garden tier list and crops database to see where it currently sits.
New Pets Added
Two new pets were introduced during the Easter Event, both obtainable from Springtide Eggs — hatchable eggs earned through event play:
- Spring Bee — the more commonly hatched pet from the Springtide Egg, with a reported hatch rate around 55%. It comes with two passive abilities: Beeter Pollinator (occasionally pollinates fruit in your garden) and Bloom Bee (occasional chance to apply the Bloom mutation to a plant).
- Peryton — a Prismatic rarity pet at approximately 0.5% from the Springtide Egg, making it far rarer than the Spring Bee. The Peryton's ability, Everchanting Spring, blesses a random pet in your garden with a significant XP boost and a chance to grant that pet the Everchanted Pet Mutation.
Neither pet was permanently added to the standard pet pool after the event. The Peryton's extreme rarity meant relatively few players obtained it during the event window, making it a notable collector's item in post-event trading.
The Season 4 Pass: 50-Level Progression
Running alongside the Easter Event was the Season 4 Pass, a 50-level progression track that launched on April 4, 2026 and ran until approximately May 9, 2026. The Season Pass had a free tier (available to all players) and a premium tier (purchasable for Robux), with every level on the free track delivering a reward.
Players earned Season Pass XP by growing and harvesting Easter seeds, completing daily tasks, and participating in event activities. One key mechanic was Jim's submission quest at the center of the middle event island: Jim periodically requested crops of a specific size or with a specific mutation, and each successful submission filled a progress bar. Every 25 submissions yielded a Candy Blossom Shard, and every 50 submissions rewarded an Exotic Easter Seed Pack.
The XP curve was front-loaded — the early levels progressed quickly, while the final stretch toward level 50 required significantly more sustained effort. Players who engaged consistently across the event's five-week window had a realistic path to the higher-tier rewards.
What Lasted After the Event
Most event content — the Easter Garden plot, the Egg Hunt, the Choc Coin shop — ended when the event did. A few things carried genuine long-term weight:
- 1Candy Blossom persisted as a meta-relevant crop, retaining value in farm setups beyond the seasonal context.
- 2Peryton and Spring Bee remained with players who obtained them as permanent pets in their collections, with the Peryton especially valued for its rarity.
- 3The Easter Garden plot mechanic (a no-pets zone for event seeds) was a structural precedent — the first time GaG tested fully separated event farming, which informed how future events were designed.
- 4The five-part rollout format itself set a new benchmark for GaG event structure, demonstrating that the development team could sustain multi-week seasonal content with meaningful additions at each stage.
Was the Easter Event 2026 Worth Playing?
For players who engaged seriously with the farming and selling loop, the Season Pass quest track, and the Egg Hunt, the answer was unambiguously yes. Candy Blossom — specifically the returning 2026 and Elder variants — justified the time investment for farm-focused players, since it remained competitive after the event closed. The Peryton, at roughly 0.5% from Springtide Eggs, gave hunters a high-value chase target. And the sheer volume of content — more than ten event seeds, two new pets, a dedicated garden plot, and 50 Season Pass levels — made the five-week runtime feel earned rather than stretched.
Casual players who dipped in occasionally still had access to cosmetics and Choc Coins from the Egg Hunt and crop sales, so the event was not structured to exclude lower-commitment play. But the full reward set, particularly the Peryton and a complete Candy Blossom seed stack, heavily favored players who treated the Easter Garden and daily tasks as a consistent routine.
For current crop values and tier rankings, see the [Grow a Garden crops page](/games/grow-a-garden/crops) and [tier list](/games/grow-a-garden/tier-list).