Roses, I was gifted one for a birthday but two years going it's given way to black spot. Regardless of clearing old leaves, pruning, organic fungicide sprays.. Never been over keen on them anyway, quite like the orange/apricot ones and pinks in certain cottage garden displays.
Also reducing the number of 'tender' perennials, losing windowsill space over Winter.
I gave up on my thorny (inherited) berberis because pruning is such a pain and so tricky (if you're me). And gardening under them hurts when I got a handful prickles when planting anything, from hidden dropped bits of prunings. I'm very glad to have it all gone. I've planted crab apples instead and they will be gorg. They don't hurt.
Hotsas because the slugs sit in line with knife and forks waiting to feast on them Delphinium not because of slugs just the fact they need stacking and are very fussy about my garden for some reason Heuchera Obsidian because it does not like my well drained humus soil in part shade and thats a complete mystery
Anything that flourishes in poor soil. Soil here is quite rich (previous owner used to grow prize crysanths). Verbascums are something I'd love to grow but they never go for me.
Like the others, anything that's slug food (although I am still persevering with my delphiniums just for this year (we're opening in June). Tiny plug plants that always die on me and things that I've got bored with.
Kerria? Gosh I have a patch that’s getting too big. I can grow hostas, delphiniums, lupins no problem! and my berberis is doing fine! I need to give up all things that short tailed voles eat as I’m overrun - beans and peas mostly. A real shame as they do well in my soil, but I just can’t seem to protect them. I just had a really bad winter for rabbits too, as at some points the ground was 3ft higher than normal! In 2 weeks of heavy snow I lost seven apple trees, a new laurel hedge, a new cotoneaster hedge, and just rescued a new holly hedge. I’m going to give up on most of these, and pick something that’s not touched or more easily protected.
Forget-me-nots and red clover, both of which are rampaging like Ghengis Khan through my garden on their mission for world domination. My efforts to control them are futile and I rue the day I sprinkled their seed in my ‘wild area’ in the mistaken belief that they would respect the boundaries I had intended to cultivate them within.
Small Berberis nana and admiration because they are far to slow-growing and look lost at the front of a big border, coprosma that couldnt take my winter temps - didn’t like the shiny foliage anyway, tulips except in pots
Mountainous Northern Catalunya, Spain. Hot summers, cold winters.
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Also reducing the number of 'tender' perennials, losing windowsill space over Winter.
Delphinium not because of slugs just the fact they need stacking and are very fussy about my garden for some reason
Heuchera Obsidian because it does not like my well drained humus soil in part shade and thats a complete mystery
I just had a really bad winter for rabbits too, as at some points the ground was 3ft higher than normal! In 2 weeks of heavy snow I lost seven apple trees, a new laurel hedge, a new cotoneaster hedge, and just rescued a new holly hedge. I’m going to give up on most of these, and pick something that’s not touched or more easily protected.