Forum home The potting shed
This Forum will close on Wednesday 27 March, 2024. Please refer to the announcement on the Discussions page for further detail.

Which plants would you relegate to the compost heap... for good?

124678

Posts

  • Hostafan1Hostafan1 Posts: 34,889

    can I add cordyline australis?

    Devon.
  • TopbirdTopbird Posts: 8,355

    Oooh! Isn't it as well we don't all like (or dislike) the same things?

    Many conifers and heathers for me.

    .. and begonias and gladioli..

    .. and anything with bright yellow flowers (don't even like the common daffodil) 

    Heaven is ... sitting in the garden with a G&T and a cat while watching the sun go down
  • LynLyn Posts: 23,190

    This weekend my biggest hosta is for the compost, it's 5' wide much to rampant.

    All of my Tithonias, of all the thousands of seeds I sow every year, these are a disaster., 

    I'm like Raisingirl, if it grows for me, I like it.?

    Gardening on the wild, windy west side of Dartmoor. 

  • StevedaylillyStevedaylilly Posts: 1,102

    Euphorbia - because for some strange reason certain ones struggle in my garden

    Spirea - because I had to dig out about 20 mature ones when I arrived in my house 

    lady's mantle - because they never leave the garden even if you have only planted kind 10 years ago 

    Erinchea - Purple cone flower because it lives and dies too quickly

    Alpine viola - as I can't get rid of it

    Brambles - as they would survive the next ice age ?

  • B3B3 Posts: 27,505

    Other people's groundcoverimage my vermicious kniddsimage

    In London. Keen but lazy.
  • Mark56Mark56 Posts: 1,653

    The pom pom headed marigolds & all cistsus can be added to my list too. The creased paper-like flower heads in blousey colour combinations do nothing for me.

    There, feels better now, doesn't it? image

    Last edited: 15 June 2017 20:48:41

  • B3B3 Posts: 27,505

    That could go with the white hosta in forestedge's funeral parlour add my creepy black grass and we're in business

    In London. Keen but lazy.
  • YviestevieYviestevie Posts: 7,066

    I like most plants but some I can't stand

    Red hot pokers,

    Golden Rod

    Spanish Bluebells

    Comfrey (sick of pulling it up in my garden)

    Houttuynia (it stinks and spreads like wildfire)

    Hi from Kingswinford in the West Midlands
  • YviestevieYviestevie Posts: 7,066

    Forgot Jap Anemones, absolute thugs.

    Hi from Kingswinford in the West Midlands
  • B3B3 Posts: 27,505

    I find that most of the plants that we hate are to be found in multi-packs, advertised in the back of Sunday newspapers. Maybe we should treat this problem at source.

    Ban the indiscriminate advertising of compost-worthy plantsimage

    In London. Keen but lazy.
Sign In or Register to comment.