Might as well make up a list... Hostas - don't do a lot for me.. Daylilies - apart from the spider form, I like those.. Sisyrinchiums - those washed out yellow things. Tradescantias - not sure what they're all about really.. Mahonias.. coarse spiky ugly plants, .. yellow flowers soon forgotten.. Sarcococcas…. very dull most of the year... Acanthus mollis - up there with Mahonias … Chrysanthemums... the less said the better... Prairie gardens... been there, done that,... had quite enough.
...last but not least … Hybrid Tea roses.. very few in my garden, I have one I think.. perhaps these are the roses the voters are referring to... ?
..sorry... no offence intended...gardeners can be very passionate... and I think we should always be open to conversion, or reconvert... ..enjoy your garden this summer...
Just think how dull our gardens would be, if we all liked the same things. I am lucky, in that I have lots of space, so I have different styles of planting in different areas. One thing I can't abide, is being told what is tasteful, usually by people, I consider to have no taste at all.
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I agree @Marlorena, I’d gone right off hostas, and then I saw a huge clump that had turned the most glorious shade of yellow in the garden at Blickling Hall one autumn, and I fell for them all over again ... now I can’t imagine my garden without them. 😊
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
And I used to dislike roses because, as you say Marlorena, I associated them with stiff tea roses in rows in municipal planting schemes (they are still very much with us in that form over here, especially around cemetries and memorials).
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A very elderly chap in my village uses bedding plants in exactly the style of the 70's, when he was younger. It's not to my taste but it is beautifully done. At Osborne House they do Victorian bedding on a grand scale. Again, I might not choose it for myself, but it deserves respect and appreciation. A perfect lawn is a thing of beauty. I 'd vote in favour of all plants grown well and bringing joy.
I'd no more have the same planting scheme I had 50 years ago than I'd have the same clothes/ haircut/ wallpaper etc etc, but if that's what floats your neighbour's boat, then so be it. It's his garden: he enjoys and loves it , so he's doing no harm.
@Dovefromabove … yes I know what you mean... I don't hate any of those plants, they just wouldn't go with my roses, at least to my eyes, and here's what I mean..
..yet some people might love this..
Sisyrinchium striatum...
..what's the point?... the one at the back is quite nice..
I don't mind the flowers...
..all photos I took from private gardens.. and I'm not a snob...
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Hostas - don't do a lot for me..
Daylilies - apart from the spider form, I like those..
Sisyrinchiums - those washed out yellow things.
Tradescantias - not sure what they're all about really..
Mahonias.. coarse spiky ugly plants, .. yellow flowers soon forgotten..
Sarcococcas…. very dull most of the year...
Acanthus mollis - up there with Mahonias …
Chrysanthemums... the less said the better...
Prairie gardens... been there, done that,... had quite enough.
...last but not least … Hybrid Tea roses.. very few in my garden, I have one I think.. perhaps these are the roses the voters are referring to... ?
..sorry... no offence intended...gardeners can be very passionate... and I think we should always be open to conversion, or reconvert...
..enjoy your garden this summer...
I am lucky, in that I have lots of space, so I have different styles of planting in different areas.
One thing I can't abide, is being told what is tasteful, usually by people, I consider to have no taste at all.
When you don't even know who's in the team
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Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
..yet some people might love this..
Sisyrinchium striatum...
..what's the point?... the one at the back is quite nice..
I don't mind the flowers...
..all photos I took from private gardens.. and I'm not a snob...
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.