Magnolia. One month of flowers - eleven months of very dull tree.
Ditto flowering cherry . When I looked after gardens , I worked in a garden one Friday and it was covered in buds. I went back the following Thursday, a whole 6 days later and there were fallen flowers already on the drive.
Laurel can't believe I forgot it before after the number of side shoot trees I've had to dig out, cut down or tame! And I'm with you @Hostafan1 on the pink cherry blossom, love the white though
There used to be a blossom route in Kent. I don't know if they still have it . Nice to see in orchards and other people's streets, but not in your own garden.
We have privet hedges and I kind of hate them. They are good in that they are very resilient and the blackbirds like to nest in them, but the flowers are overwhelming when they do bloom and it makes us both itch and sneeze when we cut them.
I had a Leylandii and some other kind of cypress type thing for years. Never realized how much I hated them until we cut them down last year.
I'm not very fond of roses, at least not the fussy specimen type where you get a mostly bare shrub with a few big flowers. I like climbing and wild ones, although I removed the one I had because it was mostly thorns.
I'm also not much of a fan of your standard supermarket bedding plants, except for lobelias. I like the vivid blue-purple colour. However, I seem to have a hard time getting certain things to grow and I'm a very lazy novice, so when I find something that does well I just let it grow.
I see quite a strong association on the forum between old memories of gardens and the flowers people have come to hate. People tell me they hate begonias and marigolds and pelargoium because they remind them so strongly of naff planting their grand/parents had, or municipal beds. My parents weren't gardeners and I didn't know my grandparents so I don't have much in the way of historical comparisons. I find red pelargonium cheery; I enjoy hypericum and daffodils and roses and trailing begonias.
I would be wary of fashions. Fuchsia seem very off-trend and pretty much any bedding plant.
I might have said earlier that I find it odd to have a garden full of things from far away, chosen because they are 'exotic' looking. Bananas, palms, fatsia. Like we always want to be somewhere else. It seems sad to me, in a way; like have gardens full of 'English roses' in Japan. Maybe all gardens are a fantasy.
I don't like daffs I find them very garish and jarring, hypocritically I rather like forsythia. other than that anything with spines, roses are lovely to look at in someone else's garden, but not mine thank you.
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When I looked after gardens , I worked in a garden one Friday and it was covered in buds. I went back the following Thursday, a whole 6 days later and there were fallen flowers already on the drive.
And I'm with you @Hostafan1 on the pink cherry blossom, love the white though
The smell of Privet gives me a sick sort of hayfever,I can smell it a mile off....yuk!
I had a Leylandii and some other kind of cypress type thing for years. Never realized how much I hated them until we cut them down last year.
I'm not very fond of roses, at least not the fussy specimen type where you get a mostly bare shrub with a few big flowers. I like climbing and wild ones, although I removed the one I had because it was mostly thorns.
I'm also not much of a fan of your standard supermarket bedding plants, except for lobelias. I like the vivid blue-purple colour. However, I seem to have a hard time getting certain things to grow and I'm a very lazy novice, so when I find something that does well I just let it grow.