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

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  • Hostafan1Hostafan1 Posts: 34,889

    Show me a hedge better than Yew.image

    Devon.
  • B3B3 Posts: 27,505

    #Yewwww are my  heart's delight#

    #She  loves yew. Yeh yeh yeh#.

    #only yeeewwwwww#

    In London. Keen but lazy.
  • plant pauperplant pauper Posts: 6,904

    Who me???? image

  • Mary370Mary370 Posts: 2,003

    I dislike and don't understand why someone would want to grow pollenless sunflowers.

    I also dislike Unscented roses and roses which flowers are too large and heavy for the stems.

  • debs64debs64 Posts: 5,184

    I prefer a beech hedge! Sorry I am not being deliberately contrary but it's the transience and change that I love about gardening to me an evergreen hedge is like a wall with more maintenance and less charm. 

  • LynLyn Posts: 23,190
    Hostafan1 says:

    Show me a hedge better than Yew.

    imageSee original post

     Youve been to Rosemoor again?

    Gardening on the wild, windy west side of Dartmoor. 

  • Hostafan1Hostafan1 Posts: 34,889

    That was one of our visits there Lyn. 

    We must go again soon eh?

    Devon.
  • Papi JoPapi Jo Posts: 4,254

    debs64 "I prefer a beech hedge! Sorry I am not being deliberately contrary but it's the transience and change that I love about gardening to me an evergreen hedge is like a wall with more maintenance and less charm."

    If you like more "charm" in a hedge, you might consider hornbeam (Carpinus betulus), which we call "un charme" in French. Couldn't resist the Anglo-French pun.image

    And I also agree with your preference for transience and change in vegetation. Actually, since hornbeam is semi-evergreen, it retains its coppery dead leaves throughout the winter so looks like an ideal combination of transience and permanence.

  • josusa47josusa47 Posts: 3,530

    The issue with Spanish bluebells is that bees can't tell the difference.  If they're growing anywhere near wild bluebells, the pollen gets transferred and the resulting hybrid inherits its Mediterranean parent's thuggishness and out-competes the natives.  If we don't want Hyacinthoides non-scripta to go the way of the red squirrel we would do well to stop growing H. Hispanica. Not that it's easy to get rid of.  I acquired some when I moved house three years ago, and no matter how many I dig up, they reappear in undiminished numbers the following spring.  If anyone has successfully eliminated them I'd like to know how. I don't want to have to resort to glyphosate.

  • B3B3 Posts: 27,505

    I think that the only thing to do it hoe them as soon as they appear in the spring and then forget about them until next year.

    In London. Keen but lazy.
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