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Plants I don't get

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  • amancalledgeorgeamancalledgeorge Posts: 2,736
    I'll agree on hanging baskets...totally don't get the point of them. Just make a lovely tall pot and call it quits 😂
    To Plant a Garden is to Believe in Tomorrow
  • Busy-LizzieBusy-Lizzie Posts: 24,043
    Thank you everyone who liked my garden.
    That's something else I'm not keen on, Monkey puzzle trees. There was one at school I didn't like school.
    Dordogne and Norfolk. Clay in Dordogne, sandy in Norfolk.
  • JoeXJoeX Posts: 1,783
    Hexagon said:
    Only one mention of hellebore so far. I wish I liked them since apparently they like shade.
    Not a fan either nor a hater - I recently planted some out to see how they do in shade and under a tree.  Fingers crossed!
  • madpenguinmadpenguin Posts: 2,543
    Hexagon said:
    Only one mention of hellebore so far. I wish I liked them since apparently they like shade.
    Hellebores are lovely flowers but they always face the soil so I can't really see the point.....
    “Every day is ordinary, until it isn't.” - Bernard Cornwell-Death of Kings
  • Joyce GoldenlilyJoyce Goldenlily Posts: 2,933
    What is more amusing than watching a bee dive head first into the middle of an open cardoon flower, wriggling its BTM   with pleasure as it finds the nectar. Must admit I prefer to grow globe artichokes, plant and flowers almost identical as at least I can eat them. The lovely silver foliage makes a real contrast to all of the boring green and is almost evergreen.
  • B3B3 Posts: 27,505
    I grow an artichoke just for the leaves and flowers. The trouble is, the ant farmers love it too. They can line their aphids in nice neat rows along the stems.
    In London. Keen but lazy.
  • Nanny BeachNanny Beach Posts: 8,719
    If you feed your sweet peas regularly, they will keep on flowering till the frosts, mine arent dead at the bottom.  As a kid I hated Hydrangas, (wich is funny because I won a flower arranging cmpetition at my local Hospital with them) and Bergenias, one of my good friends hates Paenies, says they are ugly!
  • The_herpetologistThe_herpetologist Posts: 481
    Oooo I’ve got a huge hit list to share.....Big show off pompom dahlias, garish gladioli, carnations, daffodils that look soooo ugly when they start to die, hollyhocks with their ugly foliage, budleia because no matter how pretty they may be, they grow out of cracks in walls and on building sites, lilies because they stink and end up looking a mess after the lily beetles have chomped holes out of them and any flower that needs propping up with stakes coz they can stand up on their own weedy stems. Oh, and any whimpy non-hardy plant that you have to drag into the greenhouse every year coz they give up after the first sign of frost. 
  • B3B3 Posts: 27,505
    Well, I'm sure you're glad youve got that off your chest😉
    In London. Keen but lazy.
  • New_SeedlingNew_Seedling Posts: 9
    It's roses for me I'm afraid! We moved into a house with around 35 overgrown neglected rose bushes. I spend so much time pruning, watering, supporting, deadheading, feeding, mulching and spraying roses for pests and disease that my poor other plants get neglected. No matter how much care I give the roses they always end up with blackspot and attack me for showing them kindness! I have so many rose related injuries! I prefer plants that are less needy and dont injure me!
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