Have always thought alchemilla mollis was horrid - acid greeny yellow flowers and dull foliage and a thug to boot. Love astilbes - in damp soil they flower for weeks in my experience and have good foliage.
With the possible exception of hakonechloa macra in the right place I've concluded grasses are not ornamental, especially, as I've seen too often, en masse with a few verbena bonariensis run thru them. Just wrong.
Vendée - 20kms from Atlantic coast.
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Justifiably popular, ‘Iceberg’ goes on flowering right through the summer. Clusters of pink buds open to double, slightly fragrant white flowers, 7cm across. It is disease-resistant and easy to grow. There is also a climbing variety.
I have had this rose rose a few years ago as a climber, it really did flower all summer.
Well, in 4 years of existence, my own specimen of R. 'Iceberg' never went on flowering after its first flush of flowers in June.
Never seen that before. Shame the disease involves holes. Some people would like the colours. It reminds me of those white mint spangles with the pink bits in them but I preferred Old English myself.
Old pelargoniums. Their long knobbly stems with dark and dead brown leaves attached to a invariably red flower in a neglected grubby white plastic pot is a sight that I never want to see. It should be illegal.
Old pelargoniums. Their long knobbly stems with dark and dead brown leaves attached to a invariably red flower in a neglected grubby white plastic pot is a sight that I never want to see. It should be illegal.
I suppose you mean plastic pots (and plastic in general) should be illegal? Agree. I can still remember the days when plastic hardly existed.
Agree PJ that it should be phased out. The image above was one I saw in a neighbours garden and it has put me off pelargoniums. I won't grow them again.
Shame to stop growing them (if you like them) Purplerain, just because others grow them badly. Not a fan myself, but I remember many years ago visiting Córdoba during the patio festival - thousands of colourful, healthy pelargoniums tumbling in profusion from every balcony and in massed pots in interior patios - simply stunning.
My fallen out of love plants are those I was never really in love with in the first place (bedding plants mostly) but bought just because there was little else on offer.
Mountainous Northern Catalunya, Spain. Hot summers, cold winters.
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With the possible exception of hakonechloa macra in the right place I've concluded grasses are not ornamental, especially, as I've seen too often, en masse with a few verbena bonariensis run thru them. Just wrong.
It reminds me of those white mint spangles with the pink bits in them but I preferred Old English myself.
My fallen out of love plants are those I was never really in love with in the first place (bedding plants mostly) but bought just because there was little else on offer.