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.
This sort of thread has appeared a few times over the years on here and I've usually said that there are very few plants that I don't like. However, this time several plants have appeared that I don't like. @WAMS has summed it up quite nicely - with the exception of hostas, which I love. I love roses to.
Dordogne and Norfolk. Clay in Dordogne, sandy in Norfolk.
Ech, Spanish Bluebells. Not a fan of standard roses either, more the way they are grown than the plant I suppose although the plants also often look pretty ropey. I don't like blowsy double camellias that turn to brown mush at the slightest frost. Or double peonies that droop their flowers to the soil.
"What is hateful to you, do not do to your neighbour".
Couldn't agree more about bergenia @RosePink .... tatty looking things.
A "friend" gave me some Sisyrinchium once several years ago. I soon took them out but not before they had seeded everywhere, and I still get some coming up.
I'm also not a fan of many variegated plants, but do love hostas and holly.
Oil seed rape is a great plant for bees @Silver surfer, but I know what you mean about it not looking right in the countryside.
Bee x
Gardener and beekeeper in beautiful Scottish Borders
A single bee creates just one twelfth of a teaspoon of honey in her lifetime
A few years ago, there was a very enjoyable thread about plants you wouldn't buy because of their name ( I don't think it was one of mine) e.g. a rose called Cliff Richard , crocosmia Lucifer - that kind of thing.
Mahonia. The leaves are vindictive, I have to pick them up with gloves, they don’t disintegrate very quickly and I stepped on quite a few bare foot. I can’t bring myself to get rid of it as the bees love it early in the year when not much else is around.
Buddleia. They look so untidy like my hair when I get up early, spend my time on the laptop, and look into the mirror at 8, "I need to brush it". Never seen any nice looking Buddleia despite knowing of their importance for wildlife. Ivy wouldn't be in my garden but can grow happily where my garden isn't nearby. I took the Berberis out after realising it developed thorns. The rose's only place I gave is behind the greenhouse. OH wanted to have it in the middle of the bed (but never does any gardening). I love seeing Marigolds, but asked my dad not to plant them into the flower box where my mother normally sits on their balcony in Berlin, knowing her smell sense is despite being in her mid 80's still excellent.
ivy again because I hate it so much, I think rosemary plants are not attractive in the least.
I have 20 different ivies. I took them to Belgium with me and brought them back. I needed a phytosanitary certificate to take them and Rose, who wrote the monograph, came o inspect them. One of the best foliage and ground cover plants.
Rosemary is great for brushing against. And No1 herb in my kitchen.
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A "friend" gave me some Sisyrinchium once several years ago. I soon took them out but not before they had seeded everywhere, and I still get some coming up.
I'm also not a fan of many variegated plants, but do love hostas and holly.
Oil seed rape is a great plant for bees @Silver surfer, but I know what you mean about it not looking right in the countryside.
Bee x
A single bee creates just one twelfth of a teaspoon of honey in her lifetime
e.g. a rose called Cliff Richard , crocosmia Lucifer - that kind of thing.
Ivy wouldn't be in my garden but can grow happily where my garden isn't nearby.
I took the Berberis out after realising it developed thorns.
The rose's only place I gave is behind the greenhouse. OH wanted to have it in the middle of the bed (but never does any gardening).
I love seeing Marigolds, but asked my dad not to plant them into the flower box where my mother normally sits on their balcony in Berlin, knowing her smell sense is despite being in her mid 80's still excellent.
I ♥ my garden.
Rosemary is great for brushing against. And No1 herb in my kitchen.
"Have nothing in your garden that you don't know to be useful, or believe to be beautiful."
"Have nothing in your garden that you don't know to be useful, or believe to be beautiful."