sorry @lyn yes, corrective text and guilty of not reading back! I think it makes a lovely back drop for other plants and I keep it under manners by regular dead heading. Totally with you on those @Yviestevie, love to eat cabbage but not for decoration!
I have a whole yellow border which I adore. I've got phlomis in there, rudbeckia, zebra grass, pale yellow multi-headed sunflowers, the potentilla Monty was planting on his mound, rudbeckia, inula, alchemilla mollis, heliopsis... and miniature daffs. Sorry, yellow haters! What I don't like is red and white bicoloured things. I got sent a red and white aquilegia by mistake which ended up in the compost bin. And as for salvia Hot Lips - yuck!
I love this thread. I think everything I dislike has been mentioned, and there's not much I disagree with either! Begonias and bergenias are probably my most disliked.
The yellow thing is interesting; there are lots of yellow flowers I'm not keen on, but that's often when they're highly cultivated and more natural versions of a species look more 'right'. Wild primrose compared with an egg yolk yellow bedding primula for example. I quite like all those you have, @didyw, but I'll never love yellow lysimachia.
The yellow of mahonia doesn’t bother me so much as the non tactile, unfriendly look of it. Does anyone else regard some plants as giving off an unfriendly vibe - and not simply because they may have thorns?
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Totally with you on those @Yviestevie, love to eat cabbage but not for decoration!
What I don't like is red and white bicoloured things. I got sent a red and white aquilegia by mistake which ended up in the compost bin. And as for salvia Hot Lips - yuck!
The yellow thing is interesting; there are lots of yellow flowers I'm not keen on, but that's often when they're highly cultivated and more natural versions of a species look more 'right'. Wild primrose compared with an egg yolk yellow bedding primula for example. I quite like all those you have, @didyw, but I'll never love yellow lysimachia.
Yellow roses are good in the summer. Some yellows are too inyerface for spring