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Are there any plants that you really don't like?

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  • WonkyWombleWonkyWomble Posts: 4,541
    I'm with you there @gondor. I've got 2 hydrangea annabelle but like you say those pink ones.... can't stand them!
  • didywdidyw Posts: 3,573
    Heathers, dwarf conifers, standard anything (especially that pink/green willow), most fuchsias.
    Gardening in East Suffolk on dry sandy soil.
  • SueAtooSueAtoo Posts: 380
    Grasses, and anything brownish/dun coloured that seems to be fashionable at the moment. Look dead or dying to me.
    East Dorset, new (to me) rather neglected garden.
  • WonkyWombleWonkyWomble Posts: 4,541
    edited June 2021
    I keep thinking of more to add when I think of the gardens I'm working in this week...
    Ceanothus, nothing I like about them which is odd because I love the colour blue. 
  • Nanny BeachNanny Beach Posts: 8,719
    Oh yeah you reminded me,I don't like Heather, there was 2 big beds here, sprawling and half dead. Don't mind it in the Forest
  • KT53KT53 Posts: 9,016
    Red hot poker which I have hated from the first time I set eyes on the things when we moved to a new house when I was 15.  Fortunately my mother hated them too so I was free to go round the garden beheading them with a carving knife.
    Hyacinths because I can't stand the scent either inside or outside.
    Plenty of plants that do nothing for me but I don't actively dislike.
  • JennyJJennyJ Posts: 10,576
    There are lots of plants that I wouldn't have in my garden (even if I had the right conditions) but few that I think look truly awful whatever the setting. One is red-hot pokers (it's the perpetually tatty-looking foliage as much as the flowers) and another is the hotlips-type white-and-something bicolour salvias (I love the single colours and more subtle bicolours like Dyson's Joy).
    Doncaster, South Yorkshire. Soil type: sandy, well-drained
  • B3B3 Posts: 27,505
    Unfortunate name, though.
    In London. Keen but lazy.
  • Hostafan1Hostafan1 Posts: 34,889
    Salvia hot lips. Vile. 
    All the others are fine. amethyst lips etc. but that red white combo sets my teeth on edge
    Devon.
  • JennyJJennyJ Posts: 10,576
    @B3 , I've noticed the same one (or very similar) being sold as "Joy" so I guess someone agrees with you. For myself I don't have a problem with plants being named for the breeder.
    Doncaster, South Yorkshire. Soil type: sandy, well-drained
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