Bedding begonias with those glaucous reddish leaves are just horrible. I, like so many on here, am not a "yellow" lover (apart from the joy of spring daffodils) but sometimes, the pale, primrose shades work well with so many other colours. After the daffodils - tulips! Love to colour-clash - orange with purple, magenta with yellow, for example. A joy to the eye after a long winter. The blowsier the better. Dahlias can be fabulous - but so often disappointing, so not bothering again. Ditto sweet peas. Like many before me, I cannot think of a single reason to love Salvia "Hot Lips".
Salvia hot lipstick is pretty slug proof and my sister grows it as her pet rabbit won't eat it! I am sourcing some other salvias for her but she likes it apparently
I was given a salvia Hot Lips. It's OK when all the flowers are either red or white but not when bi-coloured altho the insects aren't as fussy. I much prefer the flowers on Amistad, both form and colour and even the foliage is better.
Vendée - 20kms from Atlantic coast.
"The price good men (and women) pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men (and women)."
Sometimes plants that may be considered naff in the garden (especially after the breeders have got to them and pumped them up into day-glo monsters) are lovely in their wild form - Gladioli Byzantium in the orchards/olive groves, tiny wild dianthus in the hedgerows, five types of euphorbia and a beautiful, delicate lily I can’t identify in the woods... just a few examples from around here.
Mountainous Northern Catalunya, Spain. Hot summers, cold winters.
Salvia hot lipstick is pretty slug proof and my sister grows it as her pet rabbit won't eat it! I am sourcing some other salvias for her but she likes it apparently
Have a look at the Salvia greggii group ... similar, hardy and better colours.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
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After the daffodils - tulips! Love to colour-clash - orange with purple, magenta with yellow, for example. A joy to the eye after a long winter. The blowsier the better.
Dahlias can be fabulous - but so often disappointing, so not bothering again. Ditto sweet peas.
Like many before me, I cannot think of a single reason to love Salvia "Hot Lips".
sourcing some other salvias for her but she likes it apparently
I was given a salvia Hot Lips. It's OK when all the flowers are either red or white but not when bi-coloured altho the insects aren't as fussy. I much prefer the flowers on Amistad, both form and colour and even the foliage is better.
Saw some succulents with glitter-sprayed leaves last month in a SM 😱😱
There are plants I don’t like very much, but I’d never call a plant ‘naff’’ because it’s often used to dismiss what’s popular, easy, and accessible.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.