Osmanthus heterophyllus and Osmanthus fragrans 'aurantiacus'....oh my. Is this appropriate?

Both flowering and in such close proximity! What can this mean?

This is Nursery Five and the large plant in the background is O. heterophyllus. If you'd never smelled O. fragrans, you'd think it couldn't get any better than heterophyllus. Someone stuck this O. fragrans 'aurantiacus' out there to encourage an interspecific cross. We can only hope that inappropriate behavior will commence and the progeny will result in an improved forms of O. fortunei, the name given to products of the particular cross.

Hey, I'm starting to be a believer....Dr. Greenstone's plots are coming together

Some more than others. These plots will be here for at least the next ten years, paired sets, one planted with natives, the other with non-natives. One side of the study will observe pollinators, the other the insect pests that attack the plantings.

After a rocky start that involved having to kill generations of weeds, planting in full sun in midsummer, facing record heat, and serious drought.... by next year, I'm expecting the plots to be....well, better looking than the meadow areas they were carved out of. And the plantings are starting to grow so there will be insects to sample.