Get buckets and grind them for leaves.
Get flower boots and grind them acorns,
Bigger trees and flower objects allow pheromone collections.
Use merges where possible to heal big size requirements and dead lands.
Remember rule of five.
Magnifier glasses give 5-7 star dusts when worked.
There is one unlock with open chest, so if you can get there, save one open chest from healed lands for that.