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That's lovely, as long as it's in someone else's garden.

josusa47josusa47 Posts: 3,530
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Just for fun, let's make a list.  Someone else gave me the idea, posting about Rhus typhina, aka Sumac.  That would be on my list.  I wouldn't want a vast lawn with a massive cedar tree in the middle, but it does look wonderful in the right setting.
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  • JennyJJennyJ Posts: 10,576
    Most ornamental grasses. And hostas, because I don't have the conditions they like so they struggle and look rubbish here.
    Doncaster, South Yorkshire. Soil type: sandy, well-drained
  • B3B3 Posts: 27,505
    I'd love a huge cedar tree , a huge horse chestnut and a huuuuuge old London plane (itchyball tree) that has never been pruned into a bog brush.
    In London. Keen but lazy.
  • PoppypussPoppypuss Posts: 143
    Gunnera!
  • PalustrisPalustris Posts: 4,307
    Any Rose.
    Monkey Puzzle tree. We have a huge one and as it is male it produces flowers which shed pollen like yellow fog and sticks to everything.
  • NollieNollie Posts: 7,529
    Liriodendron Tulipifera - saw this in flower yesterday on the edge of a children’s playground. Sort of admirable, astonishing flowers but a bit ugly at the same time:



    Mountainous Northern Catalunya, Spain. Hot summers, cold winters.
  • edhelkaedhelka Posts: 2,351
    Any topiary complicated more than a single ball. And any very formal setting.
    Peonies with their two weeks of flower (if all goes well).
    Welsh poppies.
    Astrantias - I've read they can be smelly.
  • GreenbirdGreenbird Posts: 237
    Ivy
  • AmphibiosAmphibios Posts: 158
    Eucalyptus tree, wisteria, Rhus typhina. I have considered all of them and they are just too big and troublesome for a smaller garden and with little time. 
  • AHRAHR Posts: 361
    Large Willow 
  • lilysillylilysilly Posts: 511
    Huge copper beech tree or a majestic great oak. Wisteria, beautiful but vigorous and all that pruning from up a ladder....no thanks.
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