The Dangerous Underworld of Flowers
Sandii: (eyeing a hanging basket) How do they know the right places to plant them?
Me: You just crowd them in. They’re annuals. They only have one season to grow and flower and die.
Sandii: So how many do you put in?
Me: As many as you can. You feed them and water them, and they fight for space. It makes them bloom better. It’s like a cage match, only with flowers.
Some Stuff | Liz August 23, 2007
By Arwen, August 23, 2007 @ 4:46 pm
So why do they always tell you to space them sixteen meters apart?
By Liz, August 23, 2007 @ 9:36 pm
Because they believe that a cage match with flowers is cruel.
No, really, I think there must be plants that compete and plants that say “To hell with this, you other plants can have all my water and nutrition”.