TIP: Flowers for happiness + growing experience

[milon]

If you can spare the soil, plant flowers on your non-essential walkways and in your storerooms and anywhere else that you can get away with.  They increase beauty (a 5% grown flower still has 100% of its beauty rating) and they have a short lifespan which means your growers get lots of experience.  Just make sure to have some actual flooring that's 2 or 3 tiles wide every so often to act as a fire break in case of raiders or Zzzt! event.  And if you're going to plant flowers in your hospital, use a flower pot, not soil.  Plantable ground means dirt gets tracked around, which makes the room dirtier and increases wound infection chance.