I think that the more important idea, as some have said here, is to diversify in terms of plant families. For example, I have a lot of cherry trees, but there is only one sweet cherry. Next to the sweet cherry is a kiwi, grape, aronia, dandelion, Russian sage,palms, goumi, quince, autumn olive, forsythia, paw paw, persimmon, None closely related. Different flowers and green leafies are intermixed, for example, tulips, daffodils, grape hyacinth, comfrey, evening primrose,
native honeysuckle, native spirea, linden tree, loquat, iris, dwarf walnut, flying
dragon citrus, curly mallow, leeks, columbine, candytuft, etc. I'm also laying on
wood chips to increase the fungal diversity and growing an intentional King Stropharia
mushroom bed. Diversity of kingdoms! Mostly I've only got one of each variety and they are staggered. Works for me. Wikipedia shows the geneology of each plant so you can figure who is a pome fruit, stone fruit,
rose family, etc.
John S
PDX OR