My latest bete noire is that Senecio Angel Wings that seems to be in every other front garden around here. The look of it reminds me of a skate that's washed up on the beach.
"What is hateful to you, do not do to your neighbour".
Dahlias, always associate them with earwigs! Not keen on chrysanthemums either, although I did once get told off by a florist after I’d just told her not to put any in an arrangement I was ordering. She produced a load of different varieties, all very pretty, I had no idea that they came in such a range, and not just those big curly-petalled things in ugly bronze or maroon.
I'm here @Hostafan1 and forbore to diss bananas, going against palms instead.
I dislike any plant surrounded by bare soil except when it's newly planted and needs space to spread so, for me, roses can be fabulous if underplanted with hardy geraniums and other suitable perennials to hide their bare legs. For roses to work for me they have to be open to pollinators seeking nectar and pollen and/or highly perfumed. Never seen the point of a rose with no pong and nowadays prefer them to be pollinator friendly too.
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)."
I know I'm out of step with practically everyone but I like to see bare soil around my plants. I like to grow the plants as individuals rather than squash them all together in a pleasing design. My plants inevitably snuggle up together and there isn't much I am willing to do about it. But I do find it a bit claustrophobic at this time of year. In the late spring, it gives me great pleasure to clear out the fmns and loads of pulmonaria. This time of year I clear out spent nigella and encroaching geranium mac and the cantabridgience Lots of bare earth under that lot!
Where's @Obelixx ? Nobody has mentioned Bananas yet
I forgot - having said I like nearly all plants apart from grasses and Mahonia, I've also said I don't like banana plants and I grumble every year when Monty brings them in and out of the greenhouse. It's not that I don't like them, I just don't like them in English gardens and I think they are more bother than they are worth.
Dordogne and Norfolk. Clay in Dordogne, sandy in Norfolk.
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Nobody has mentioned Bananas yet
I dislike any plant surrounded by bare soil except when it's newly planted and needs space to spread so, for me, roses can be fabulous if underplanted with hardy geraniums and other suitable perennials to hide their bare legs. For roses to work for me they have to be open to pollinators seeking nectar and pollen and/or highly perfumed. Never seen the point of a rose with no pong and nowadays prefer them to be pollinator friendly too.
In the late spring, it gives me great pleasure to clear out the fmns and loads of pulmonaria. This time of year I clear out spent nigella and encroaching geranium mac and the cantabridgience Lots of bare earth under that lot!