In Animal Crossing: New Horizons, which bushes are in season depends on the month and your hemisphere.

Below is a clear breakdown so you can quickly see what bushes are in season ACNH throughout the year.

Bush seasons (Northern Hemisphere)

Across a typical in‑game year, these are the blooming periods for each shrub type in the Northern Hemisphere.

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<table>
  <thead>
    <tr>
      <th>Bush type</th>
      <th>Blooming dates (Northern)</th>
    </tr>
  </thead>
  <tbody>
    <tr>
      <td>Camellia (pink, red)</td>
      <td>January 1 – March 31</td>
    </tr>
    <tr>
      <td>Azalea (pink, white)</td>
      <td>April 11 – May 31</td>
    </tr>
    <tr>
      <td>Hydrangea (blue, pink)</td>
      <td>June 1 – July 20</td>
    </tr>
    <tr>
      <td>Plumeria (pink, white)</td>
      <td>June 1 – September 20</td>
    </tr>
    <tr>
      <td>Hibiscus (red, yellow)</td>
      <td>July 21 – September 20</td>
    </tr>
    <tr>
      <td>Tea olive (orange, yellow)</td>
      <td>September 21 – October 31</td>
    </tr>
    <tr>
      <td>Holly (green with berries)</td>
      <td>November 1 – December 31</td>
    </tr>
  </tbody>
</table>

Quick story-style example

Imagine it’s late March on a Northern island: your camellias are still blooming, but you’re just a couple of weeks away from the azaleas waking up and completely changing the vibe of your paths and plazas.

Bush seasons (Southern Hemisphere)

If your island is in the Southern Hemisphere , the dates are shifted.

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<table>
  <thead>
    <tr>
      <th>Bush type</th>
      <th>Blooming dates (Southern)</th>
    </tr>
  </thead>
  <tbody>
    <tr>
      <td>Hydrangea</td>
      <td>December 1 – January 20</td>
    </tr>
    <tr>
      <td>Plumeria</td>
      <td>December 1 – March 20</td>
    </tr>
    <tr>
      <td>Hibiscus</td>
      <td>January 21 – March 20</td>
    </tr>
    <tr>
      <td>Tea olive</td>
      <td>March 21 – April 30</td>
    </tr>
    <tr>
      <td>Holly</td>
      <td>May 1 – June 15</td>
    </tr>
    <tr>
      <td>Camellia</td>
      <td>June 16 – September 30</td>
    </tr>
    <tr>
      <td>Azalea</td>
      <td>October 11 – November 30</td>
    </tr>
  </tbody>
</table>

Picture a cozy June evening on a Southern island: you’re walking past rows of camellias just coming into bloom while Holly has long since dropped its berries and gone back to green.

How to know what’s “in season” right now

To translate the tables into “what’s in season today”:

  1. Check your in‑game date and hemisphere.
  2. Look up that date range in the corresponding table.
  3. Any bush whose bloom dates include that day is “in season”; those buds will show flowers and Leif will prioritize selling that shrub type in his shop rotation.

For example:

  • Early March (Northern) → Camellia is in season.
  • Early March (Southern) → Plumeria and Hibiscus are in season until the 20th, then Tea Olive starts on the 21st.

Little seasonal forum-style note

“I swear my island feels completely different when azaleas swap to hydrangeas. It’s like a soft reset on my paths every June.”

Players often talk on forums about lining paths with one shrub per season (e.g., camellias for winter–early spring, azaleas for late spring, plumeria/hibiscus for summer) so that their island subtly “decorates itself” as the year rolls on.

TL;DR: Check your hemisphere, then use the tables above to see exactly which bushes are in bloom for your current month—those are the bushes in season in ACNH right now.

Information gathered from public forums or data available on the internet and portrayed here.