At the minute it's in with Echinaceas Sunseeker's pink and Sunseeker's orange, Helenium Sahin's early and various other oranges, rusts and yellows. It's a weird colour. Not pink, not orange, not coral....
Euphorbia and also roses. Never been a fan of them.
I'm glad to see i'm not alone. Most people seem to feint or run around thinking that civilisation is doomed when i confess my dislike for all things 'Rosey'!😂
Gardening. The cause of, and solution to, all of my problems.
I'm glad to see i'm not alone. Most people seem to feint or run around thinking that civilisation is doomed when i confess my dislike for all things 'Rosey'!😂
Actually there are quite a few rose nay-sayers on this forum. I'm not one of them
Gardening on the edge of Exmoor, in Devon
“It's still magic even if you know how it's done.”
Having finally embraced yellow, there are no colours I really dislike, except coral pink, so I am having trouble with rose Lady Emma Hamilton. A group of three, recently planted, are growing and flowering really well, but are a weird cool apricot colour, maybe pale coral...difficult to describe.
Having done a quick reckoning of your posts, I’d say Begonias are currently top of the leader board in the naffness stakes.
Am surprised that nobody has nominated Gerbera or Gazania yet...
I am considering adding giant alliums to the list, think they are definitely on the cusp of naffness.
Mountainous Northern Catalunya, Spain. Hot summers, cold winters.
@Nollie Oh no i love Gazania's. Always grow them from seed for the patio planters. Sun comes out: OPEN! Yay! Sun goes in: Close. Boo. OPEN! Closed. Sat there and watched them all open once. Didnt take that long!
Gardening. The cause of, and solution to, all of my problems.
Daffs we’re the start of a slippery slope for me Mary370! Personally I don’t find Gazanias that bad, but many are kind of stripy and im not so fond of that. With the huge alliums, christophilii excepted, it’s more I find them quite alien in a border. Size isn’t everything, I love many of the smaller ones.
Mountainous Northern Catalunya, Spain. Hot summers, cold winters.
I like bedding plants the way I plant them - mixed up with perennials, shrubs and in pots with clashing colours together. I don’t like them planted in a flower bed in rows, like the council’s parks dept ‘displays’ !
Short dumpy plants with huge flowers or so much flower you can't see any foliage - to me they look unbalanced. Some bedding plants for example, and the dwarf rhododendrons with massive flowers.
Doncaster, South Yorkshire. Soil type: sandy, well-drained
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“It's still magic even if you know how it's done.”
Having done a quick reckoning of your posts, I’d say Begonias are currently top of the leader board in the naffness stakes.
Am surprised that nobody has nominated Gerbera or Gazania yet...
I am considering adding giant alliums to the list, think they are definitely on the cusp of naffness.