Most every flower will grow with every other flower, and some are going to provide benefits to any other plant. But, something interesting happens with specific plants are paired together.
It is called synergy. And it is odd because when you have one plant that grows this well in a flower bed and another plant that grows equally as well then you add them together they both suddenly grow five times better.
Mathematically it would look something like 1 plus 1 equals 10. That is synergy, making the value in things much more than they should normally or realistically be.
Mother Nature must be a musician. There is a specific kind of harmonization that just spurs growth and helps both plants to grow.
If Mother Nature is not a musician than you would have to say that plants are like people. Some plants are going to get along better with others.
Flowers like artemisia, cosmos, zinnia, and coreopsis are all going to get along beautifully with each other. These flowers are all going to thrive in a lot of sunlight and require the same amount of water and similar pH levels in the garden.
So it makes sense that they would grow by each other. For some reason though they don't just grow they actually thrive when planted near each other.
Not to mention the aesthetic value of having multiple flower species growing in your flowerbed. This is a great way to impress your neighbors or to win the best yard award from the local HOA.
Flowers as plants are very humble, they do not produce fruit and they do not have any sort of practical use. Many of them are edible, but most people will not eat them unless dared too.
Supposedly Neanderthals used to eat flowers back in the old days before people learned how to cultivate large fields of wheat. It wasn't too long after people learned how to grow gardens that they started noticing how different plants would affect each other.
The Native Americans had a specific combination that worked particularly well. They would combine corn, squash and beans all into one crop.
The corn would provide long stocks for the beans to crawl up, the beans would provide the soil with nitrogen, and the squash would block weeds from coming in the garden. Now days it seems people are moving more toward monocultures, and these requires pesticides and herbicides which should be avoided if at all possible.
Destry Masterson is an author who has written hundreds of articles. She publishes articles about landscaping and www.sprinklersystemstore.com for Sprinkler System Store.
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