I don't hate flowers either, @Busy-Lizzie. I wouldn't want certain ones in my garden cos I don't think they'd suit its style - but I can admire almost anything, even including plants with yellow leaves and pink flowers, in the right setting.
Since 2019 I've lived in east Clare, in the west of Ireland.
I love the shape of its starry flowers and its stalwart cheerfulness.
I am doing everything in my power to eradicate the cussed stuff from my garden. I took a look over my borders from a distance to get an overall view and it looked great - except that about a sixth of the planting seemed to be this stuff. It has to go!
Primroses and anything in that shade of yellow seem to look 'right' but then again, the brighter yellow of cowslips looks perfect scattered in grass. Globe flowers look okay to me, but so many yellow flowers don't. Is it the strength of UK daylight that makes some seem attractive, and others not? Or is it to do with the colour of the accompanying foliage? Thinking about my own likes and dislikes in yellow flowers, I can't really find an answer, so I agree with Dovefromabove, there's no explaining it!
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Anything prickly (holy, berberis, nettles,etc.) except for roses (but not the crazy ultra thorny ones).
I do have some yellow in my garden as I'm trying to get over my dislike and discover if I can learn to love it in the right surrounding 🤔
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Is it the strength of UK daylight that makes some seem attractive, and others not?
Or is it to do with the colour of the accompanying foliage?
Thinking about my own likes and dislikes in yellow flowers, I can't really find an answer, so I agree with Dovefromabove, there's no explaining it!