Meant to add, I also plant up lots of pots of bedding plants, love the colour and variety, including petunias which grow very well in SW France. I don't deadhead them and they keep on flowering, so I don't notice stickiness. Never had blackfly in the philadelphus, only heavenly scent.
Dordogne and Norfolk. Clay in Dordogne, sandy in Norfolk.
Gladioli Dame Edna can have them all. Don't like bright red flowers of any description, dislike yellow flowers (except in the Spring). Tagetes, nasturtiums (nasty things that are always covered in blackfly). Golden Rod. There's probably a lot more but I can't think of them at the moment
One that I will never ever understand is double flowered multi-coloured daisies. Surely the whole point of planting daisies is to have daisies, not some hideous neon pink ball.
Never mind the plants: what I REALLY don't get is decking and slabs and paving and almost all hard landscaping. Most gardens are too small these days, anyway. Why do people want to cover what they have with dead stuff?
I love black grasses and black flowered plants they are so dramatic in there appearance. Agree on green flowered plants, don’t see the point but we all have our hates and loves.
virtually everything classed as "bedding" French marigolds, salvia "blaze of fire" alyssum/lobelia , fibrous begonias. Agree about variegated foliage AND flowers: Does anything think variegated ceanothus , pyracantha or agapanthus are BETTER than their green cousins? I'm sure there are more, but it's too early to think, lol
Add wind chimes and strings of lights to that @Posy. Although paving or gravel can be the best option in some cases so long as it isn't sterile, I entirely agree about decking
Bedding begonias - just hideous. African marigolds - the definition of garish. Carpet bedding - just why? Agree with Kilmarnock willow - had one once, never again. Green flowers- what’s the point? Most euphorias look like weeds or aliens and hurt you. Like dahlias but never put lots of different ones together - that’s just too much. And pristine, manicured gardens are wrong on every level. However, I do believe it’s each to their own.
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Maybe I'm mad, but I seriously don't get why you would want this:
https://davesgarden.com/guides/pf/showimage/241638/
When you could have this:
https://davesgarden.com/guides/pf/showimage/94245/
Just why?
The other one that really boggles the mind is double flowered Hibiscus and Bellflowers. Just seems to defy the entire point of having them.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Agree on green flowered plants, don’t see the point but we all have our hates and loves.
Agree about variegated foliage AND flowers: Does anything think variegated ceanothus , pyracantha or agapanthus are BETTER than their green cousins?
I'm sure there are more, but it's too early to think, lol