We people are not as different from everything else as we like to think.
Bring two plants home from a nursery and pot them in the same flower box and I never know what will happen.
If they are just seedlings I might not even be sure what kind of plants they are. One could be a marigold and the other an onion! Or one could be a newborn oak and the other baby’s breath. In the end they may not be compatible at all.
Knowing what they are makes it much easier to plant similar ones in places where they have a chance of succeeding together.
Still, it takes time. In the beginning they both have a root system that feeds them and anchors them in this new world I have provided, but one may overshadow the other, or the sunlight that falls on them may cause one to lean away. Sometimes one even attracts bugs that are harmful to the other. They still may not be compatible at all.
Eventually, if all goes well they will thrive and when I go to re-pot them, I sometimes discover that they have sent tiny feelers out, little roots that have intertwined and grown together so that separating them would be almost impossible.
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