Just made two spice plant beans in my backyard and they have failed to appear in my inventory despite me getting the xp and losing the ingredients. Very strange.
Seems they weren't lost - just couldn't be planted in my backyard. That's fine, but like trying to plant the egg trees above ground, the game should be consistent and tell me that I can't "plant that bean here".
No message. That's why I thought the beans were lost. The plant menu item was greyed out despite the fact I had seasoned beans and had tended the patch.
I made the beans and then tended the patch. I expected the menu to then allow me to plant. It didn't. I have many bags and rather than look through them I assumed the spice beans had been lost. I then left my house, collected a few items from Pasha's Place, made a bubble bean and returned to the house. That one wouldn't plant either. Again no mention of restrictions, just no plant available from the drop-down. I didn't try dragging the bean to the patch or working from the bean itself. By that time, I had a look in help chat and saw the discussion about native trees, made some fruit beans and planted those instead.