No plant exists in isolation. In bed with the humming pollinator, with the soil microbes, with the human gardener who has his or her own sense of aesthetic beauty. By including these lilies in mixed planting schemes you promote biodiversity: hoverflies guzzle aphids, earthworms loosen the soil, and next door perennials establish a lattice of mutually shielding shade – which helps prevent the ground drying out. What’s more, as you select and edit your plants and garden scene—melding architectural shrubs, fragrant herbs, frilly grasses, exuberant annuals—Alstroemeria’s paint by numbers rhythm of renewed bloom weaves together divergent notes into a harmonious and continuously morphing composition.