Which is too bad, because including flowers in your garden (even if it’s only in the form of bolted vegetables) helps attract critters that will pollinate your “productive” plants as well as those that will help protect them from pest infestations. A balanced ecosystem lifts all boats, to mix my metaphors.
I refer more to growing flowers as the main event. Most people I know who garden outside use flowers in the way you described.
I do however have one extremely “dudebro” guy friend who literally grew almost nothing but flowers for a few years, specifically to sell them to a florist :P
I’ll be honest, I’ve never come across this.
I’ve known people who aren’t too keen on growing flowers, if only because it takes up space where they could be growing something more productive.
Which is too bad, because including flowers in your garden (even if it’s only in the form of bolted vegetables) helps attract critters that will pollinate your “productive” plants as well as those that will help protect them from pest infestations. A balanced ecosystem lifts all boats, to mix my metaphors.
I refer more to growing flowers as the main event. Most people I know who garden outside use flowers in the way you described.
I do however have one extremely “dudebro” guy friend who literally grew almost nothing but flowers for a few years, specifically to sell them to a florist :P