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

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  • herbaceousherbaceous Posts: 2,318
    Roses, alliums, ornamental cabbages and ornamental grass! OK I'm going now but you did ask........
     
    "The trouble with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on coming along and trying to put things in it."  Sir Terry Pratchett
  • FireFire Posts: 19,096
    Wisteria (PITA). Any big trees (as I have a small garden). Beds of a thousand tulips (because I'm not going to plant them all, but they look stunning). A wall of dark red virginia creeper (because it needs full sun to turn red). Peonies. Tithonia (lovely but entirely wrong colour). Gorgeous masses of pink roses that flower all summer long (because I don't do pink).
  • GemmaJFGemmaJF Posts: 2,286
    Cats and cats.


  • strelitzia32strelitzia32 Posts: 758
    GemmaJF said:
    Cats and cats.


    And cat owners.
  • FireFire Posts: 19,096
    Cats.
  • a1154a1154 Posts: 1,108
    Rabbits, definitely.
  • mikeymustardmikeymustard Posts: 495
    I thought this was sposed to be "lovely but in someone else's garden, not just stuff you don't like :)
    My friend has a wisteria and montana on his double-fronted Victorian red brick villa, they look fantastic for a few weeks in spring, then he spends the rest of the year trying to stop them from blocking out the light!
    I also wouldn't give roses houseroom but I think a dog rose growing up a tree is a beautiful thing
  • GemmaJFGemmaJF Posts: 2,286
    edited June 2020
    I thought this was sposed to be "lovely but in someone else's garden, not just stuff you don't like :)

    Cats are lovely in someone else's garden. I don't dislike them.

    When it is a choice though of having the neighbours' cats in our garden, or a plethora of native wildlife that helps keep pests off my food, gives me hours of enjoyment and pleasure and a sense of all being well with the world, I'll take the wildlife.

    So no change.

    Cats.
  • Mary370Mary370 Posts: 2,003
    Begonias
  • You just haven't met the right begonia @Mary370 so many fabulous leaf forms and flower types. 
    To Plant a Garden is to Believe in Tomorrow
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