Agree about yellow winter jasmine. Tall Dutch bred tulips ditto but I love the shorter species and they do last a long time, coming back year after year.
I like lupins but find them fussy and pest ridden - slugs, snails, aphids - so I've sown some baptisia to see if they will do better for me.. Looking forward to strong blue flowers.
Vendée - 20kms from Atlantic coast.
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The list continues... Azaleas and Camellias. I don't think they look real. Controversial perhaps 🤔 can't have helped that I was the one that had to carry gallons of special feed to those uphill beds when I worked on a large estate. But I never did like the flowers or hard leathery leaves.
I can't believe nobody mentioned bamboo ... whenever I see a new garden being fenced with the flipping stuff I cringe. There is no plant more boring than it. My favourite at the moment is common flax, millions of new flowers every morning, no special care, fully hardy.
Hate most bright yellow and bright red flowers (golden rod and bedding salvias especially) Red robin Bergenia Pieris Any plants that have gone woody (heather, wallflowers etc) Dead looking grasses I know there's more but that'll do for starters.
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I like lupins but find them fussy and pest ridden - slugs, snails, aphids - so I've sown some baptisia to see if they will do better for me.. Looking forward to strong blue flowers.
Luxembourg
Hate most bright yellow and bright red flowers (golden rod and bedding salvias especially)
Red robin
Bergenia
Pieris
Any plants that have gone woody (heather, wallflowers etc)
Dead looking grasses
I know there's more but that'll do for starters.