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* ''Anime/{{Macross}}'':
** In ''Anime/SuperDimensionFortressMacross'', Hikaru actually finds a field of flowers in the middle of the wasteland.
** There's another in ''Anime/MacrossFrontier'', late in the series: After the ''Frontier'' has been ravaged by Vajra, we see a couple of kids watering a flower that has sprung up among the wreckage.
* The very last shot of ''Anime/PrincessMononoke'' is a fantastic variation: [[spoiler:a Kodama appears amid the downed trees of the forest]].
** From the same [[Creator/HayaoMiyazaki author/director]], the last shot of ''Manga/NausicaaOfTheValleyOfTheWind'' is of a normal, non-corrupted sapling sprouting next to Nausicaa's forgotten flightcap at the bottom of the [[GardenOfEvil Sea of Corruption]]. [[spoiler:Vindicating Nausicaa's hypothesis that the "corrupted" plants were actually processing the pollution of the world and rendering it harmless, and the bottom stratum of the Sea of Corruption has perfectly clean air and water]].
*** Cruelly subverted in the manga, though: [[spoiler:It turns out that humans have adapted over time to a moderately polluted environment, and pure air and water are just as deadly as the Sea.]]

* The last scene of the 2006 Creator/KyotoAnimation adaptation of ''VisualNovel/{{Kanon}}'' shows a single sprout coming out of the tree stump (and a fox cub in the background...).

* In the epilogue of the ''Anime/EurekaSeven'' movie which is shown after the credits, a single lunar Crystal flower is shown along with Renton & Eureka's pendant, emitting rainbow light that is believed to grant wishes to whoever prays to it.
* ''Anime/FinalFantasyTheSpiritsWithin'' does this with an eagle at the end that signifies not all is lost, since the phantoms had allegedly destroyed all life, especially animals, in their path.

* Subverted in ''Anime/BatmanNinja''. Batman and Red Hood come across the Joker and Harley Quinn [[CallToAgriculture working as farmers]], having been restored to sanity after losing their memories. Over Red Hood's objections, Batman decides to leave them be as the couple happily celebrate the sprouting of their first flower. [[spoiler:Turns out the flower sprouting was the hypnotic trigger for their previous evil personalities to reawaken. Knowing that Batman would NeverHurtAnInnocent, the Joker and Harley hypnotised themselves as a MemoryGambit.]]

* ''WesternAnimation/WallE'' takes this concept and turns it into a MacGuffin that drives the entire plot. The eponymous trash-compacting robot finds a plant growing in the wasteland of a long-abandoned, heavily-polluted Earth. When he develops a crush on EVE, a robot probe sent to look for plant-life, WALL-E follows her to space and ends up helping a group of human survivors return to their home so they can rebuild civilization. [[spoiler: After the humans, WALL-E and EVE have successfully returned to Earth and replanted the sprout, the final shot of the movie pans over the outskirts of the city to show hundreds of sprouts just like the one WALL-E found, ending on a wide shot of the Earth's surface showing the entire coastline is tinged with green; the Earth had already started repairing herself]].
* [[DuelingMovies In a similar vein]], the peach tree sprout [[TheStinger after the credits]] of ''WesternAnimation/KungFuPanda'' (the "hope" in this case being that there is now a Dragon Warrior to keep the peace, thanks to Shifu finally believing in Po as Oogway asked him to).

* In ''WesternAnimation/TheLionKingIISimbasPride'', a tiny plant grows from the ashes of the burned land as Simba explains to Kovu that one generation can grow to be better than the one before it if given the chance.

* The rainbow and the cat at the end of ''Film/TheMatrixRevolutions'' could fall into this category.

* In ''Film/{{Excalibur}}'', when Arthur and his knights ride out to face Mordred for the final battle, a flower slowly blooms in the corner of the shot.
* In ''Film/{{Sunshine}}'', Corazon finds a growing sprout in the burned-down Oxygen Garden. Subverted though [[spoiler:in that she's murdered a few seconds later.]]

* At the beginning of ''Film/JoeVersusTheVolcano''. A single flower grows in the desolate area outside the factory where Tom Hanks works.
* At the end of ''Film/PansLabyrinth'' a white flower blooms on a tree branch in memory of Ofelia.
* ''Film/{{Downfall}}''. The courtyard of the Fuhrer Bunker appears desolated: full of dirt, shell craters and stockpiled munitions, but Traudl looks down and smiles when she sees a white flower. We then see there are other flowers and trees growing around the courtyard. But the moment of peace is soon broken by an air raid siren.
* Inverted at the end of ''Film/LittleShopOfHorrors''. Seymour and Audrey get married and move to the suburbs just like they wanted. A sprout is shown growing just outside their new house... but it's a sprout of Audrey II! Depending on who you're rooting for, that could be seen as a good thing.
* ''Film/TheThinRedLine'': The very last scene shows a coconut sprouting on the beach.
* ''Film/Oblivion2013'': At least one small valley within the area of the state of New York remained forested. Harper found it, and it's where he keeps his [[TheCollectorOfTheStrange collection of]] [[DisasterScavengers scavenged memorabilia]] and a small cottage he built. [[spoiler: Him trying to give Victoria a small plant (presumably from this place) and her casually throwing it away, justifying it as the plant possibly being contaminated with radiation, is another sign of Victoria's StepfordSmiler behavior.]]

* ''Film/TheMartian''. The sprouting of Mark Watney's first potato plant is presented like this. [[spoiler:Subverted when an explosive decompression of the Habitat later kills off all his potatoes, with no means of growing more. Fortunately he's already grown enough to survive. And on his first day back on Earth, he sees another plant sprouting through the gravel at his feet.]]
* ''Film/{{Snowpiercer}}'': A variation, fitting the movie being set after a devastating ice age wiped almost all life from the face of the Earth. At the end, as the camera pans over a desolate icy wasteland after [[spoiler:the Snowpiercer is derailed]], a polar bear is seen walking in the distance, implying that life still exists outside of the train.

* The ''Literature/{{Remnants}}'' series by KA Applegate subverted this trope. The whole world is a wasteland after it was hit by an asteroid, and the characters have been travelling on a generation starship and then reach Earth. They're thinking about trying to restore Earth to its life-supporting ecology, but they also have the understandable option of just getting back on the starship where they can be supported by its technology. Then they see a flower growing somewhere. Guess what? It was a fake, placed there by a character named Yago, who, if he was outside the MoralEventHorizon before, has now fallen deeply within it. While everyone else is looking at this flower, celebrating Earth's chance for a new life, Yago makes the ship take off and leaves them stranded.
* Creator/JamesThurber's ''[[http://www.arvindguptatoys.com/arvindgupta/thurberlastflower.pdf The Last Flower]]''. [PDF link]
%%* This is possibly the entire point of ''Literature/TheSecretGarden.''
* In the midpoint of ''Literature/TheNeverendingStory'', Bastian has to rebuild Fantastica from a single seed, through the power of his imagination. Everything else is pitch darkness.
* Probably the most famous chapter in ''Literature/TheHouseOnMangoStreet'' is the one about the four skinny trees that grow on the protagonist's city street and how she identifies with them.
* ''Literature/ATreeGrowsInBrooklyn'', as you might expect, has a motif of a species of tree that reflects on the toughness of the people in Brooklyn by being the only kind that can grow in their neighborhoods.

* In ''Literature/TheLordOfTheRings'', the newly crowned Aragorn finds a sapling of the White Tree way up in the moutains; the line of White Trees goes back to his people's ancestral home, and ultimately to Eressëa accross the Western Sea. Their flourishing has always been connected to the prosperity of realm and kingship. The sapling is then relocated to the traditional spot in the citadel's courtyard, while its dead predecessor is laid to rest in the tomb of the kings.

* ''Literature/TheLorax'' ends with a single sprout in an otherwise industrialized, treeless wasteland.

* ''Series/PowerRangersRPM'':
** In his first-episode EstablishingCharacterMoment, Dillon waters a wasteland flower, wipes out a squad of attacking MechaMooks ([[BattleDiscretionShot offscreen]]), and drives on (making sure not to run the flower over).
** The series uses this trope as a [[BookEnds bookend]] -- after Venjix's defeat, Dillon, Summer and [[spoiler: Tenaya]] venture out into the recovering landscape, and find a small field's worth of flowers.
* In the final episode of Mahou Sentai Magiranger, Magi Red has crossed the Despair Event Horizon, with his older siblings and fellow teammates trying to reawaken his confidence by pointing out a single flower that had grown despite the main villain, N. Ma, having devoured all life in existence.

* In ''Series/{{Lost}}'' season 6, Sun is frustrated to find the garden she started is now dead. Jack finds one little tomato that defied the odds to survive.
* In ''Series/TheOfficeUS'', Michael and Dwight think about this trope while looking for business leads that got thrown away.
** Hope... grows... in dump.

* In the fluff in the ''VideoGame/{{Civilization}} IV'' mod ''Fall from Heaven'':
-->"And I stood in the valley, as I was commanded, and sang the songs of rebirth. I sang until I slept. And upon waking I sang once more. Water and food were brought to me, and I slept beneath the stars. I sang the songs of old. And I sang the songs of new. After one hundred days in the wastelands I looked down and saw something green. Something grew in those days, and I sang for a hundred more."
* In ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyVI'', the ravaged and desolate world shows its first signs of recovery when some children, who have been trying to get flowers to grow, succeed in getting a single flower up.
* In ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyVII'', [[FriendToAllLivingThings Aerith's]] flower garden. The ruined church in the sector 5 slums is the only place they grow in [[PollutedWasteland Midgar]]. [[spoiler: Probably because of her people's [[FertileFeet ability to heal the Planet after it's been seriously hurt.]]]]
** A short clip may be seen after the end credits "500 years later," where Red XIII is running around with two offspring and the city is wrecked, but plants are growing everywhere. This also happens at the very beginning of ''[[Anime/FinalFantasyVIIAdventChildren Advent Children]]''.

* In ''VideoGame/{{Iji}}'', a plant and some ants crawling over it in the (probably acid) rain is seen as part of the "humanity is not doomed" montage.

* The ending of ''VideoGame/AdvanceWars Dual Strike'', where plants sprout in a nation almost completely reduced to desert by the BigBad.
* Darkly subverted in ''VideoGame/AdvanceWars Days of Ruin'' where, after a comet that blotted out the sun and has killed all plant life, they happen upon a field of thriving flowers. They're immediately told to steer clear because said flowers are infectious and anyone under 25 who comes into contact with them will end up [[BodyHorror having said flowers grow from beneath their skin, killing them]]. [[spoiler:These plants go on to be a major driving antagonistic presence in the game, being an artificial bio-weapon unleashed on the world by the BigBad to satisfy his cruel need to "[[ForTheEvulz experiment]]" on people ForScience]]
* The ending of ''VideoGame/WildArms3''.
* Happens a few times in ''VideoGame/WorldOfMana'' games, sans the ravaged world:
** In ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyAdventure'', [[spoiler:the new Mana Tree, which the world needs to survive]], is shown on the "The End" screen.
** Used to show that, someday, mana will return to the world.
** In ''VideoGame/LegendOfMana'', your progress in the game is indicated by an icon of a seed that sprouts and then grows into a tree; at full growth, you're able to place the Mana Tree on the map and [[spoiler: fight the Mana Goddess, or at least her SuperpoweredEvilSide]]. Defeat [[spoiler: her]] and the Sproutlings come [[spoiler: to heal the Mana Tree]]. After the ending cinematic plays, you are shown that [[spoiler: the Mana Tree]] is sprouting again.
* The end of ''VideoGame/LunarEternalBlue'' shows a tiny patch of grass poking out of the surface of the Blue Star.
* This gets ''very'' darky subverted in ''VideoGame/BoxxyQuestTheGatheringStorm''. At one point, the heroes visit a barren wasteland, where they have to wear special masks to filter the toxic air. And yet they find a village where the locals are able to breathe it just fine. While there, small plants start to sprout up around Catie wherever she goes, (since she’s a [[PiecesOfGod remnant of Virtua]]), and long-dead trees begin to bloom. It seems hopeful at first, but the locals mention that it’s getting harder for them to breathe… [[spoiler:and by the time you return from the nearby dungeon, the plants have taken over, transformed the atmosphere, and killed everyone]].
* The (good) ending of ''VideoGame/BreathOfFireIII'', although the sprout comes after the game's credits. The sprout seems to be Peco, a talking onion and ''one of the main characters!'' But it's OK, as Peco may be a seed for a WiseTree.
* In the ''VideoGame/QuestForGlory'' games, the work of the powerful sorceress Erana is evident in various magical gardens that seem to spring up in the harshest places, whether in the middle of [[SwampsAreEvil a swamp]], a dry savannah, or a snowy mountain pass. In the fourth game, flowers magically sprung up around her staff where it was placed in the town, and a plant that was exhumed and placed in the swamp kept on living despite being submerged in a pile of evil goo.
* Successful completion of the VideoGame/MysteryCaseFiles game ''Return to Ravenhearst'' gives you an animation of the terrible house going up in flames, while dead tree branches in the foreground suddenly come to life and produce nice purple flowers.
* In ''VideoGame/NightmareRealm'', awakening the Spirit and restoring the river causes vegetation to burst back into life throughout the witch doctor's dying world, in all its full-color SceneryPorn brilliance.
* ''Franchise/TheLegendOfZelda'':
** In ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaOcarinaOfTime'', bringing peace to a monster-infected forest will cause a single new shoot to grow at the base of the late WiseTree. The hero bends down to examine it, and a man-sized sprout ''erupts'' from the ground and bowls him over.
** In ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaBreathOfTheWild'', [[TheVeryDefinitelyFinalDungeon Hyrule Castle]] is portrayed as a BleakLevel where Ganon's [[MadeOfEvil Malice]] and [[MechaMooks Guardians]] have left it and the surrounding area completely barren of any living thing that isn't one of his monsters. What few plants present are the grey or brown husks of the vegetation present before the Great Calamity a century ago. The sole exception is a Silent Princess located in Princess Zelda's study. This is especially notable because [=NPCs=], the [[StoryBreadcrumbs retrievable memories]], and the item description for the Silent Princess indicate that this species of flower is not just endangered, but pretty much impossible to cultivate in ''any'' controlled setting, let alone a wrecked study in the ruins of a castle ruled over by an EnemyToAllLivingThings.
* In the first ''[[VideoGame/SuikodenI Suikoden]]'', the farmer Blackman is found in the burned-out ruins of Kalekka, stubbornly caring for his seedlings. He only joins the Stars of Destiny if you avoid stepping on his plants. But why would you do such a thing, anyway...?

* Some of the endings in ''VideoGame/DeusExHumanRevolution'' describe [[spoiler: humanity coming together because of your actions. During this description, an image of a single sprout being planted by a team of people is shown.]]
* The [[AfterTheEnd post-apocalyptic world]] of the ''VideoGame/{{Fallout}}'' series is a blasted wasteland. But in ''VideoGame/{{Fallout 3}}'', there's an oasis filled with leafy trees and self-appointed druids. The only reason it can exist is a [[TalkingTree bizarre interaction]] between the [[AppliedPhlebotinum Forced Evolutionary Virus]], a tree, and a man named Harold. One option for completing the associated quest fits the trope in a broad sense: [[spoiler:the Oasis will continue to expand until the Wasteland is green again.]]

* In ''Terrafarmers'', the more plants you add, the greener and healthier the surrounding landscape looks.

* In ''VideoGame/ArTonelico3'', upon [[spoiler: reviving the Planet and returning to the surface, the cast find out that the very first life to show up in the Planet's surface, after being covered by a poisonous cloud for over 700 years they helped to dispel, is an small plant. This marks the culmination of the efforts made by the entire casts of the three games in the series.'']]

* In [[https://www.webtoons.com/en/challenge/loving-reaper/hope/viewer?title_no=353275&episode_no=17 this]] Webcomic/LovingReaper comic, Life shows Death a sprout growing after the Australian wildfires.

* In [[this https://www.webtoons.com/en/challenge/loving-reaper/hope/viewer?title_no=353275&episode_no=17]] Webcomic/LovingReaper comic, Life shows Death a sprout growing after the Australian wildfires.

Out of the dust there sprouts a plant. It could be just a shoot with a few little leaves, or perhaps a single, tremulous flower. A tree that seemed dead may have shoots on it, or flowers, or even a bit of bark stripped away to reveal a green, wick heart. Is it a HopeSpot? Or does it mean that the DarkestHour is over? Is it {{Anvilicious}}? Who cares? Maybe the heroes have [[EarnYourHappyEnding earned their happy ending]] after all. And that's what's important.

* The covers of the ''Literature/{{Deathlands}}'' series (set in an AfterTheEnd North America) often used this theme -- [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Pilgrimage_to_Hell.jpg as seen here]] in the first novel, taken from a scene in the book. Acknowledged in the [[Creator/{{Syfy}} Sci-Fi Channel]] FilmOfTheBook where the TrueCompanions go RidingIntoTheSunset [[OffIntoTheDistanceEnding desert]] in their [[WeaponizedCar Sec Wag]], and a couple of daisies are in the foreground.

* ''Series/EdgeOfDarkness'' manages to invert the idea to chilling effect. After the hero [[spoiler: dies of radiation poisoning]], the last shot is of black flowers growing on a hillside; the chilling part is that, throughout the series, black flowers have been invoked as Gaia at work (cf. [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Lovelock James Lovelock]]), and their implied purpose is to induce ClimateChange in order to rid the planet of the human race.

* ''Series/EdgeOfDarkness'' manages to invert the idea to chilling effect. After the hero [[spoiler: dies of radiation poisoning]], the last shot is of black flowers growing on a hillside; the chilling part is that, throughout the series, black flowers have been invoked as Gaia at work (cf. [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Lovelock James Lovelock]]), and their implied purpose is to induce GlobalWarming in order to rid the planet of the human race.

* In the first ''[[VideoGame/SuikodenI Suikoden]]'', the farmer Blackman is found in the burned-out ruins of Kalekka, stubbornly caring for his seedlings. He only joins the [[OneHundredAndEight Stars of Destiny]] if you avoid stepping on his plants. But why would you do such a thing, anyway...?

* In ''[[Manga/{{Gunnm}} Battle Angel Alita]]'', after Gally[=/=]Alita's climatic final battle with Zapan, her broken and nearly destroyed body collapses in the ruins of her former home... and she sees a single flower sprout, under a beam of sunlight, where she planted Ido's seeds days before.

* ''WesternAnimation/WallE'' takes this concept and turns it into a MacGuffin that drives the entire plot. The eponymous trash-compacting robot finds a plant growing in the wasteland of a long-abandoned, heavily-polluted Earth. When he develops a crush on EVE, a robot probe sent to look for plant-life, WALL-E follows her to space and ends up helping a group of human survivors return to their home so they can rebuild civilization.

* ''WesternAnimation/WallE'' takes this concept and turns it into a MacGuffin that drives the entire plot.

* This is possibly the entire point of ''Literature/TheSecretGarden.''

* In the [[TheFilmOfTheBook film version of]] ''Film/TheLordOfTheRings'', Denethor is ranting and raving about how the White City is doomed, all is lost, that the line of kings is ended ... and the camera pans to focus in close-up on the "dead" White Tree of Gondor -- which has suddenly, out of death, spawned a single, white blossom.

* In ''Disney/TheLionKingIISimbasPride'', a tiny plant grows from the ashes of the burned land as Simba explains to Kovu that one generation can grow to be better than the one before it if given the chance.
* Disney also uses this trope in ''Disney/{{Bambi}} 2''. The film starts just after the death of Bambi's mother. The "There is Life" number shows winter slowly but surely melting into spring ending with a small sprout emerging from the melting snow. At the end of the film, the sprout is shown again, larger and with a new sprout growing entwined with it.

* At the end of ''Series/TheWarOfTheWorlds'', experiments with typhoid bacteria have shown that Earth diseases can kill off the [[AlienKudzu red weed]]. In an act of despair Amy smashes a couple of the glass domes they have set up to protect the experiment, only to find a green Earth plant growing among the dead Martian weed. CueTheSun.

* Subverted in Creator/TheodoreSturgeon's post-apocalyptic story ''[[http://baencd.thefifthimperium.com/13-TheBalticWarCD/TheBalticWarCD/The%20World%20Turned%20Upside%20Down/0743498747__29.htm Thunder and Roses]]''. Fresh roses are seen growing in a United States devastated by nuclear war, but the roses are mutated and the thorns grow inward, killing the plants.

* The covers of the ''Literature/{{Deathlands}}'' series (set in an AfterTheEnd North America) often used this theme -- [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Pilgrimage_to_Hell.jpg as seen here]] in the first novel, taken from a scene in the book. Acknowledged in the [[Creator/{{Syfy}} Sci-Fi Channel]] FilmOfTheBook where the TrueCompanions go RidingIntoTheSunset desert in their [[WeaponizedCar Sec Wag]], and a couple of daisies are in the foreground.

* From the description of ''Film/PlanetOfTheApes1968'' on This Very Wiki:
-->At first it appears that the planet is completely desolate, but they look for signs of life anyway. They discover that it has life when they '''see a small plant growing in the desert. They pull it up - go figure.''' "Where there's one, there must be more!" so, hope renewed, they keep looking.

* Inverted at the end of ''Film/LittleShopOfHorrors''. Seymour and Audrey get married and move to the suburbs just like they wanted. A sprout is shown growing just outside their new house...but it's a sprout of Audrey II!
** Depending on who you're rooting for, that could be seen as a good thing.
* The very last scene of the war movie ''Film/TheThinRedLine'' shows a coconut sprouting on the beach.
* At least one small valley within the area of the state of New York remained forested in ''Film/{{Oblivion 2013}}'' . Harper found it, and it's where he keeps his [[TheCollectorOfTheStrange collection of]] [[DisasterScavengers scavenged memorabilia]] and a small cottage he built. [[spoiler: Him trying to give Victoria a small plant (presumably from this place) and her casually throwing it away, justifying it as the plant possibly being contaminated with radiation, is another sign of Victoria's StepfordSmiler behavior.]]

** The series uses this trope as a [[BookEnds bookend]] - after Venjix's defeat, Dillon, Summer and [[spoiler: Tenaya]] venture out into the recovering landscape, and find a small field's worth of flowers.

** Hope … grows … in dump.

-->''When the night has been too lonely''
-->''And the road has been too long,''
-->''And you think that love is only''
-->''For the lucky and the strong,''
-->''Just remember in the winter''
-->''Far beneath the bitter snows''
-->''Lies the seed that with the sun's love''
-->''In the spring becomes the rose.''

* Things are looking pretty grim for the heroes of ''Webcomic/StandStillStaySilent'' by chapter 15 - the cat tank is kaput, Sigrun's injury might be septic, poor Tuuri is still clinging to hope that her [[spoiler: [[AllTrollsAreDifferent troll bite]] from chapter 13 doesn't [[TyphoidMary turn out to be infected]]]], and a band of vicious trolls is hot on the heels of our explorers. When Lalli and Emil are sent into a long-abandoned store to do a little shopping, Emil spots [[http://www.sssscomic.com/comic.php?page=728 a flower growing under a pane of fallen glass]]. He [[http://www.sssscomic.com/comic.php?page=730 points it out to Lalli]], hoping to cheer the other up, but Lalli's fatalistic attitude isn't improving any time soon. The flower [[http://www.sssscomic.com/comic.php?page=734 gets smushed]] several pages later when the pane of glass topples over, which puts a damper on Emil's mood too.
--> '''Emil''' (In Swedish): See that? It's almost spring! Soon we'll be back in the embrace of civilization, and it'll be summer. I know you're worried about... things. But you believe in magic stuff, doesn't that look like a good sign to you? It's tough right now, but I ''know'' we'll come out of this happier than we were coming in. Because no matter what, we'll at least be friends. Right? ''Friends''? Come on, I ''know'' you understood that last word!
--> '''Lalli''' (In Finnish): You don't understand ''anything''.

* In the finale episode of ''Series/GameOfThrones'', as Jon Snow and Tormund Giantsbane lead the Wildlings north to resettle the areas ravaged by the White Walkers, there's a shot of a single blade of grass protruding from the ground. [[ArcWords Spring is coming.]]

* In the final scene of ''J.B.'', Sarah appears cradling a forsythia twig she found growing in the ruins of the town:

* In ''Disney/TheLionKingIISimbasPride'', a tiny plant grows from the ashes of the burned land.

* In ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyVII'', [[FriendToAllLivingThings Aeris']]-[[FandomBerserkButton excuse me, Aerith's]] flower garden. The ruined church in the sector 5 slums is the only place they grow in [[PollutedWasteland Midgar]]. [[spoiler: Probably because of her people's [[FertileFeet ability to heal the Planet after it's been seriously hurt.]]]]