In Grow a Garden, the Swan is a high‑tier Divine pet that mainly copies other pets’ abilities and helps apply a special mutation to your fruits.

What the Swan actually does

  • Swan Song (mimic ability) : Every roughly 24–25 minutes, the Swan leaves your garden, visits another player’s garden, and copies one of the abilities from one of their equipped pets, then uses that ability for you.
  • Bird of Grace / Graceful mutation : Every few minutes (about 4–5 minutes), it applies the Graceful mutation to a random fruit in your garden, boosting your crop quality and yield over time.
  • Dual‑role utility : Because it both mimics powerful pets and applies a mutation, it works as a flexible support pet for progression, trading, and mutation stacking.

Why players care about the Swan

  • Access to almost any trait : By “befriending” other players’ pets, Swan Song can effectively give you access to many different strong traits in the game without owning those pets yourself.
  • Great in public servers : In busy lobbies, it can copy high‑value pets like Disco Bee, Kitsune, Dragonfly, and other meta picks, making it scale with the strength of the server.
  • Top‑tier pet : Guides and community discussions consistently rate it as one of the best new pets from the Fall Market/Fall Egg event because of this combination of mimic + mutation.

Extra quick facts

  • Rarity : Limited Divine pet, tied to the Fall Egg / Fall Market event, with a very low hatch chance (around 1% from Fall Egg in many guides).
  • Look : White feathers, grey/dark grey feet, and an orange beak, making it stand out clearly among other pets.

Mini TL;DR

  • It copies other players’ pet abilities on a long cooldown (Swan Song).
  • It applies the Graceful mutation to random fruits on a shorter cooldown.
  • This makes it one of the strongest support pets for farming and progression, especially in crowded servers.

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