I like nearly all flowering plants. I don't like grasses, look like weeds to me.
I like nearly everything on @Hostafan1's list except Cordylines. I like pots full of bedding plants. I like French Marigolds planted with the tomatoes. I like some bedding plants in with the flowers borders, such as Salvia Farinacea and Cosmos. I like blue Lobelias edging borders and Osteospermums. I think it rather depends on how bedding plants are used. Some are very pretty.
I love roses, their flowers make the prickles worth it. I agree with @debs64 about roses. But I don't like Mahonias or Pyracantha.
I'm quite surprised by the large variety of plants that people don't like. I like nearly everything that has been mentioned, including Aucuba @Dovefromabove. It is one of the only plants that will grow in really difficult dry places, like under a lime tree, and it makes good decorations at Christmas when mixed in bunches of other evergreens and tied with red ribbons.
I like Carol Klein, she's so enthusiastic about plants. I wonder if there are any that she doesn't like.
Dordogne and Norfolk. Clay in Dordogne, sandy in Norfolk.
It’s the random spots @Busy-Lizzie … it looks as if the house decorators have been careless 😆 I don’t mind proper variegation … in fact I like some of it, as on ivies and hostas … just can’t be doing with those random yellow speckles 🤢
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Surprised roses feature on this thread, I thought everyone loved roses! I don't like forsythia, if it flowered in July it would probably be OK, but wrong flower wrong time for me.
But @Dovefromabove all those spots are dotted all over the plant so thoroughly that they aren't random. The RHS says they are "attractively variegated".
Dordogne and Norfolk. Clay in Dordogne, sandy in Norfolk.
But @Dovefromabove all those spots are dotted all over the plant so thoroughly that they aren't random. The RHS says they are "attractively variegated".
Its a random pattern ... it doesn't follow or relate to the form of the leaf in a sculptural way like on a hosta ... and I've worked in Marketing ... if I was trying to promote that spotty acuba "attractively variegated" is a term I'd probably use, but to me it's unconvincing ... talk about 'damning with faint praise' 🤣
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
I don't like plasticky looking plants so that's begonias and impatiens. I don't like plants that have 2 weeks, max, of garish coloured flowers and then sit there with incredibly dull foliage and stems for the rest of the year so that's forsythia, flowering currant, broom, kerria.
I have inherited 2 mimosa trees but would never plant one myself - ghastly acid yellow flower colour in Feb and then they all go brown. Neither colour looks good against the glaucous blue foliage and they sucker and self seed like mad too. I find conifers to be a largely unattractive group of trees and agree with @Palustris about monkey puzzles.
I generally don't find grasses to be ornamental and I think palms belong on beaches, preferably in the Caribbean and out of my view.
Mahonias - if you choose the right one - have lovely yellow flowers and perfume in winter followed by blue berries. Very useful in awkward spots, as are aucubas and pyracantha.
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)."
Would anyone wear the clothes , or decorate their homes in the same way folk did half a century ago?
Ah, but there's always the retro factor. See mid-century modern style furniture....! (full disclosure, I love that era for a lot of furniture, but undoubtedly there were definitely lots of questionable things around as well at the same time).
But they kinda vanished and have come back. The same poxy bedding has been around for 150 years. Even Gertrude Jeckyll thought it was old fashioned over 100 years ago.
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I like nearly everything on @Hostafan1's list except Cordylines. I like pots full of bedding plants. I like French Marigolds planted with the tomatoes. I like some bedding plants in with the flowers borders, such as Salvia Farinacea and Cosmos. I like blue Lobelias edging borders and Osteospermums. I think it rather depends on how bedding plants are used. Some are very pretty.
I love roses, their flowers make the prickles worth it. I agree with @debs64 about roses. But I don't like Mahonias or Pyracantha.
I'm quite surprised by the large variety of plants that people don't like. I like nearly everything that has been mentioned, including Aucuba @Dovefromabove. It is one of the only plants that will grow in really difficult dry places, like under a lime tree, and it makes good decorations at Christmas when mixed in bunches of other evergreens and tied with red ribbons.
I like Carol Klein, she's so enthusiastic about plants. I wonder if there are any that she doesn't like.
I don’t mind proper variegation … in fact I like some of it, as on ivies and hostas … just can’t be doing with those random yellow speckles 🤢
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
I have inherited 2 mimosa trees but would never plant one myself - ghastly acid yellow flower colour in Feb and then they all go brown. Neither colour looks good against the glaucous blue foliage and they sucker and self seed like mad too. I find conifers to be a largely unattractive group of trees and agree with @Palustris about monkey puzzles.
I generally don't find grasses to be ornamental and I think palms belong on beaches, preferably in the Caribbean and out of my view.
Mahonias - if you choose the right one - have lovely yellow flowers and perfume in winter followed by blue berries. Very useful in awkward spots, as are aucubas and pyracantha.