The best orientation for growing flowers

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I went on Thonky's Animal Crossing New Leaf Wiki and read the hybrid flowers guide. It said change the orientation for increased likelihoods. I'm having trouble understanding what this means. The guide states that

The orientation of your flowers might have an effect. In previous Animal Crossing games, having the flowers touch diagonally was better, but in other games, having them in straight rows was better..

Could someone explain in more detail what this means?

Best Answer

When you have two flowers they can be placed like so:

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Thonky is saying that vertical, or horizontal, or diagonal planting might be better.