Finding new sisters
Each dot is a plant, each line joins two that can share a bed. Drag to turn the graph; click a plant for its data.
Guilds of 3 to 4 plants form from these 15 rows in 14 of 14 scenarios:
- 30 guilds — dug at 0.75 m2; no-dig at 0.75 m2
- 40 guilds — dug at 2, 5, 10, 25, 50 and 200 m2; no-dig at 2, 5, 10 and 25 m2
- 61 guilds — no-dig at 50 and 200 m2
Choose a plot size and a regime above; the panel lists them, the ones to plant first marked.
How to read it
Nodes, edges and guilds. Each node is a plant. An edge joins two plants that can share a bed: enough shared season, water needs not too far apart, no allelopathy, and no digging through a woody plant's roots. A guild is a set in which every pair is joined, covering scaffold, fixer and cover, with one standing plant to each height band, and fitting the bed. Looking for such sets is guilding.
What to try. Move the Plot slider to change the bed's area, and toggle dig and no-dig; the stats row and the guild list change with them. Click a plant for its data and its cuts, or pick a guild in the list. Build a guild checks a set you choose against the rules. Hard cuts draws the removed edges, and the cluster menu regroups the dots.
What limits it: sourcing. A plant is on the graph only if every value a rule reads has an outside source. 15 of 26 plants pass, and 40 guilds form from them on this bed in Basel, against ten years of rainfall and evapotranspiration records. The rest are withheld whole. These are candidates from a search, not planting advice. The audit shows where each value came from.