That is what I got so I assumed that's just the way it had been

Right, but they have an extremely low chance of spawning a fruit island. It is possible to get all the fruits by yourself, but decent luck, you will be Animal Crossing Bells spending tens of thousands of piping miles.Wait, seriously?? I've wasted Thus many NMTs trying to get more fruit. I feel foolish now.I started with Peaches. But I obtained cherries and oranges from mystery islands. I Believe the chance is just incredibly rare.You can just get one different fruit from your native fruit, you have to get all the others from friends

Oh wow I thought mom sent the mystery island fruit. That is what I got so I assumed that's just the way it had been.

Agree with your point about maintaining fruit in storage though - if they don't have spares it will be a pain to get all the varieties back again

It is not different. So hard to get all the fruits unless you have friends with different native fruit within their island. The thought of all of the trees gone really hurt me.They just consider, what, four days to grow? But it's still a pain in the buttocks to replant a whole island's value of trees. Last month I decided to finally arrange my blossoms in a consistent way and it took over a day!It takes 3 irl days, and you may always time travel, it is not like it is illegal or cheating.

That's actually a good notion - trees do take time to grow, but you can plant all of them at once. It is rather dull to do this... but maybe that will be a good thing for the kid to see.

Flowers are a bit more difficult, since depending on the kind you may need to wait for Leif to show up. But whatever flowers she can not replace immediately- maybe replace with pumpkins? But for an added responsibility lesson it is possible to put her in charge of their daily watering, too.

Ah, right, do not know why I didn't think of that. They are definitely a hassle - I eventually gave up and purchased some damn blue roses I was really frustrated with breeding! Hopefully OP didn't lose too many.Or if she apologizes AND replants the flowers and trees and fixes the furniture etc.. Some type of restitutions. Now grated this may actually take time which might be counter to the punishment, but it would take work and cash to buy Animal Crossing New Horizons Items buy the flowers, and trees, and to water them.