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Plants I don't get

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  • punkdocpunkdoc Posts: 15,039
    I am with @Busy-Lizzie on this. I love many of the hated flowers.
    My favourite Tagetes.

    How can you lie there and think of England
    When you don't even know who's in the team

    S.Yorkshire/Derbyshire border
  • I think I’d probably be enjoying your garden so much @Busy-Lizzie that I wouldn’t even notice the acuba 😂 

    Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.





  • B3B3 Posts: 27,505
    I like tagetes too - even the smell!
    In London. Keen but lazy.
  • Hostafan1Hostafan1 Posts: 34,889
    I think I’d probably be enjoying your garden so much @Busy-Lizzie that I wouldn’t even notice the acuba 😂 
    Ditto. As there's a lot of loveliness, why would we look at the things we don't like?
    Devon.
  • ObelixxObelixx Posts: 30,090
    Your garden is lovely @Busy-Lizzie .   I like aucuba when it's used well and not as "municipal car park" planting and a lavender hedge can be a thing of beauty and positively buzz with happy pollinators.

    I also like that tagetes @punkdoc - not neon and not double.
    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)."
    Plato
  • Busy-LizzieBusy-Lizzie Posts: 24,043
    Thank you all. I love that tagetes too.
    Dordogne and Norfolk. Clay in Dordogne, sandy in Norfolk.
  • PosyPosy Posts: 3,601
    Goodness,  what a fabulous garden.
  • PerkiPerki Posts: 2,527
    It comes up every year this debate  :D , I used to have a list but I've mellowed now . Use to hate Euphorbia and others but I grow them now . Plenty of plants I wouldn't have mainly due to short flowering period. 

    I haven't changed my mind on heather though , especially the coloured ones yuck. I don't get why people buy kilmarnock willows either, so much better choices out there. 

    I like most of the plants that have been mentioned who said kniphofia  :o true the foliage is ugly / messy but the flowers are great . I don't understand the gripe about bedding they out flower nearly every other plant, ideal for pots / baskets , I am not so keen on them laid out in bedding schemes though but thats not the plants fault.  I have a feeling hostafan going to tell me he hates hanging baskets now  :D
  • Lovely garden buzzy Lizzie have to admit I’m not a hater of anything really, as long as it’s in the right place all plants are ok by me.
    Marne la vallée, basically just outside Paris 🇫🇷, but definitely Scottish at heart.
  • punkdocpunkdoc Posts: 15,039
    the only rule, should be, grow what YOU like.
    How can you lie there and think of England
    When you don't even know who's in the team

    S.Yorkshire/Derbyshire border
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