oh, it's easy!
flowers only drop when you decorate walls (i mean, when you
BUY smth for walls).
and we have only 2 market slots for this:
WALL DECOR or
WALLPAPERS.
these slots were always the poorest among others, nothing to talk about past year when all updates come only via goals, where the papers are expensive (and we buy other one), and where wall decorations disappeared since when? half a year ago? or more? i haven't noticed that moment...
other collections are just more real.
2)
cooking tools (for utensil):
TIP others or
BUY anything for your
floor (covers 6 of total 9 market slots: tables, chairs, counters, floor tiles, appliances, floor decor) -
that's why utensils are so numerous in our collections: the tools for it drops not only from almost everything we buy, but also when we tip nbrs/community tables.
3)
chef implements (for coins and exp): prepare or serve
ANY recipe.
4)
baking goodness (for bread baskets): prep or serve anything marked
PIE/BREAD/TEA.
5)
yummy ingredients (for coins and exp): prep or serve anything marked
CAKE/COOKIE/COFFEE/SPEC/DONUT (have no idea abt donut mark, btw, need to check...)
game guide has a topic abt this:
https://forums.storm8.com/showthread...l=1#post757872
it's a bit outdated (info from 2011 when this feature was first announced), but the main points are still alive.
i'm like others. despite i play almost 5yrs, i don't have floral bouquet in BS.
the only one i have is in RS. and this is also easy to explain.
prices in BS were doubled one shiny day in september 2012.
expansions became very expensive, everything is very expensive.
maybe that's why i bought much more wallpaps and walldeco in RS than in BS
(i'm sure that the drop rate of flowers depends not on QTTY of wht you bought, but on VALUE (coins/gems) you spent for these items).
(it sd also depend on difference between platforms: droids cannot buy more tiles of a kind than wall/floor they have.
if bakery size is 8x10, they can only buy max 18 "exact" wall tiles & max 80 "exact" floor tiles).
i heard that iOS player can buy as many tiles as he wishes, no matter does he have a space to place it or not)
and of course i love the most collections 3 and 5. they give money