Plants for your Disliked list?

M33R4 · March 2023

When I bought my house, the previous owners had planted several Pyracanthas along the fence/for hedging. Over the years I've trimmed and shaped them to control their growth. When they produce berries/seeds they do look pretty against their dark green leaves and if you want a quick grower this guy is your man.

However, the reason I don't like them much is the injuries I have sustained with their very long, very dangerous thorns. I have had lots embedded in my skin despite wearing gloves (their tips go through gloves and the small ends snap off into your skin) causing very painful splinters and swelling. Removing them was a task. I have one embedded in my lower leg and that has since developed into a lump (been checked by GP and not sinister).

Needless to say the Pyracantha is on my disliked list.

Slow-worm · March 2023

Mine too!! I had to rip one out the garden, it had been left for a couple of years before we moved in, and was about 20 x 20ft. It didn't bite me too hard though.
I dislike anything with thorns, except hawthorn, which I don't grow.
Add to my list:
Roses (some are lovely, in other people's gardens). I don't like all the breeding and faff that goes on with them either.
Chrysanthemums - the puffy ones all supermarkets sell.

Palustris · March 2023

I am glad that someone else dislikes Roses.

Anything with spines or thorns is on my list.

Hostafan1 · March 2023

Bedding ! all of it.
Heathers.
Alpines( too wee and fussy )

CrankyYankee · March 2023

Virginia Creeper has escaped into the wild and is nearly as bad as Oriental Bittersweet, both of which I'm attempting to eradicate from my property.

I'm not a huge fan of rhododendrons. They are a staple in nearly every yard around here and so it's just rhody overload. Pachysandra makes me unnaturally irate. That's another one that everyone has in their yards. Lady's Mantle...blech. I don't get the attraction.

CatDouch · March 2023

I really dislike marigolds, I think it’s the smell 😬 I did think about growing some this year to deter undesirables but I think they would repel me more 😣

Plantminded · March 2023

Not a positive way to approach the new gardening season I know, but I also dislike bedding plants and anything with yellow chlorotic looking leaves like Choisya ternata would never feature in my garden! I’m not keen on those bedding type Dahlias with fluorescent yellow flowers either! Apart from that, all plants are welcome!

Hostafan1 · March 2023

Some variegated plants annoy me. Some, like Hostas and Holly are FAB, but variegated pyracantha and ceanothus annoyme. Variegation which looks I'll, like aucuba, ditto

Lyn · March 2023

Those spotted laurels, reminds me of when my dad would wash his paint brushes and flick them to dry. We often had variegated plants when I was small.

WAMS · March 2023

Ivy, bamboo, ivy again because I hate it so much, hydrangeas that are green-flowered, hostas, NZ flax, yucca-type plants, ornamental grasses, topiary or fancy-shaped anything (apart from a simple hedge), the foliage of echinops (though the flowers are great), spiky dahlias, strawflowers, spider plants, poinsettias and other fake-looking houseplants ...

But I love roses! Unless they're too globular or mustard-coloured.

Oh and for something so delicious, I think rosemary plants are not attractive in the least.

Perki · March 2023

I like bedding not so much in old fashion bedding schemes but in pots / baskets I like .

I rarely hate any plant but snowberries really get under my skin , pointless ugly plant for 100% of the year barely see the berries or flowers creeps around yuck. Used to dislike heathers but not as much as I used to .

Plants for your Disliked list?

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