A successful flower border can exhibit both the natural beauty of the growth of individual plant and the collective beauty of the natural combination of plants.
Some biologists hypothesize that a plant will stop growing if it's in the shade of another plant, a reaction that's triggered when it senses an unusual ratio of red light to far-red light.
That 's because they've come to learn that chemical additives in foods, and chemical fertilizers and pesticides that affect plants and animals while they grow are harmful to health.
The remaining trees draw a greater share of the available moisture, so they grow and thrive, restoring the forest's capacity to pull carbon from the air.
That is when it's not covered in snow and there is no frost covering the grass and vegetative parts of a plant's herbs and the flowers the marmots like to eat.