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Plants for your Disliked list?

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  • joanna65joanna65 Posts: 75
    Mahonia, astilbe, pampas grass, red hot poker, garishly coloured annuals, jasmine as I hate the smell, curry plant, lonicera nitida. 
  • bcpathomebcpathome Posts: 1,313
    Spanish bluebells invading from next door . Blasted nuisance how do you get rid of them . ? Also again chrysanthemum, periwinkle , forget me nots  , all make my list 
  • B3B3 Posts: 27,505
    You don't get rid of them. Hoe, rake, forget, repeat annually - forever
    In London. Keen but lazy.
  • rowlandscastle444rowlandscastle444 Posts: 2,612
    edited April 2023
    Poppypuss said:
    It’s Callicarpa for me. I love all shades of purple in flowers but for berries, it’s just wrong. 
    I love the callicarpa. But we're all different.

    Added: 
    The berries are a different colour because birds tend to eat them in a particular order - and the callicarpa ones are at the later end of the berry season.
    We have red pyracantha, yellow pyracantha, orange pyracantha, and the blue/purple (I'm colour blind) callicarpa.

    Mind you, it's the redcurrants that get hit first!!
  • PlantmindedPlantminded Posts: 3,580
    edited April 2023
    I totally agree with your sentiments @GardenerSuze, but I accept that not everyone likes grasses.  Not only can they be drought tolerant but they are also relatively disease free, don't require support, and slugs don't touch them. Plus they suit my dry, sandy soil!  But, if you don't like them, you don't like them!
    Wirral. Sandy, free draining soil.


  • GardenerSuzeGardenerSuze Posts: 5,692
    I wonder just how long this thread will keep going. Perhaps every available garden plant will be included?
    I have worked as a Gardener for 24 years. My latest garden is a new build garden on heavy clay.
  • I wonder just how long this thread will keep going. Perhaps every available garden plant will be included?
    Until I forget what I typed first time around, and repeat.
    As the days go by, the memory reduces.

    So to answer your question - probably forever!! :)
  • WAMSWAMS Posts: 1,960
    I wonder just how long this thread will keep going. Perhaps every available garden plant will be included?
    Hopefully, yes. I love begonias, bedding geraniums, pansies and daffodils... all cheerful and colourful... but I know people who detest all of these.
  • Busy-LizzieBusy-Lizzie Posts: 24,043
    Spotted laurel and Viburnum tinus have been mentioned. OK they may not be the most beautiful of plants but I have a lime tree on my border with the road and I want to blot out the view of my garden from the road. Those two are so good natured they grow in those conditions.
    Dordogne and Norfolk. Clay in Dordogne, sandy in Norfolk.
  • bédébédé Posts: 3,095
    I wonder just how long this thread will keep going. ?
    Probably as long as the Rose thread.
     location: Surrey Hills, England, ex-woodland acidic sand.
    "Have nothing in your garden that you don't know to be useful, or believe to be beautiful."
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