Zinnia flowers are OK I suppose but it's the leaves I don't like. The colour, shape and texture just don't match the flower. Had a look on Google. It seems that it's the zinnia elegans that offend. Some other varieties have inoffensive leaves.
There are a few flower colours that I don't like - rusty browny orange, dingy peach (clear oranges are fine in some situations), barbie-doll coral pinks (cool pinks are fine). I don't like pink with yellow unless the pink is mauvy as in Tulip "lilac wonder" or very deep and plummy as in primula "wanda".
I don't like red-hot pokers because the foliage always looks tatty, and likewise most of the ornamental grasses (fine when they look fresh, but once they're brown and falling over, not my cup of tea).
Doncaster, South Yorkshire. Soil type: sandy, well-drained
More: Euphorbia. Why anyone would want a massive version of a nasty, burning weed is beyond me. It doesn't even look good. Peonies, the shrubby ones - flower for a week and then leave you with all the messy petals & leaves to clear up. Rhododendron, great if you have 60 acres, but I think they look better in a wood.
I would rather he was planted on my sofa having a cup of tea
I've already posted but I'll have another go. I like most colours and most plants, but I don't like grasses, to me they look like weeds. I've said that before on this forum too.
Dordogne and Norfolk. Clay in Dordogne, sandy in Norfolk.
Can't really get away with cyclamen. I know they seem universally popular but they just don't look right to me, like the flowers and foliage don't go or something.
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Had a look on Google. It seems that it's the zinnia elegans that offend. Some other varieties have inoffensive leaves.
In the sticks near Peterborough
Euphorbia. Why anyone would want a massive version of a nasty, burning weed is beyond me. It doesn't even look good.
Peonies, the shrubby ones - flower for a week and then leave you with all the messy petals & leaves to clear up.
Rhododendron, great if you have 60 acres, but I think they look better in a wood.
I've already posted but I'll have another go. I like most colours and most plants, but I don't like grasses, to me they look like weeds. I've said that before on this forum too.
Pelargoniums. That smell!
Although I suppose it depends on whether your garden is to the left or the right (of the house).