You’ll need one to get the UFO plant from space missions. Invest in a rocket ship and all the upgrades.Leave garbage sitting on bare ground to get a Trash Fruit plant.If you’d rather not waste so much money buying seed packets in bulk, here’s a few tips to help you get some of the more unique items: You have a chance of getting all the uncommon and rare plants this way but it gets very expensive very quickly and you never know which uncommon or rare seeds you’re going to get out of any seed packet. If your Sim has high Gardening skill and a lot of simoleons to burn, it’s actually easiest to just purchase Uncommon and Rare seed packets from Build/Buy.
The main way to complete the collection is by finding different plants growing out in the wild and grafting different plants together to create new types of plants but some plants can be fished up, too. Gardening is easily the most varied and involved collection to complete in the game and it only gets more complex the more packs you have that add to the gardening collection.