I'm with thistle bunny - what is it about hostas that makes them so popular? I really don't like the leaves, too big and rubbery, with flowers that look out of balance with the leaves, AND they are slug magnets!
I have a very shady garden, with a north and east facing border, and everyboy I speak to about plants to grow recommends them to me - I'd rather have bare earth!
I don't hate any plants - however, I do get very exasperated with Dandelions and Thistles. Then I have to forgive them when I see the Butterflies and Bees feeding on them. Live and let live, I say.
Nobody hasmentioned fruit trees. No reason why you cant have them in your garden. I have espalliered 2 apples and a red currant on 3 long upward growing shoots like I saw at Wisley. In my allotment I have yellow plums and blackberries - all there when I took it over and I have added black currant and red goosebeies ( only some one pinched them all just when they were nearly ripe, I hope they got belly ache!) There's nothing better than wandering round eating a fruit here and another there.
there is a place in our large garden for all plants but two I wish I had never planted in my cottage garden are alchamela molis and columbines both seed everywhere and are impossible to get rid of.
Columbine!How could anyone not like columbine(Aquilegia vulgaris).they are just so beautiful. I would also love to have a Makus'Golden Hornet', in my garden,but in the ened what with having 3 Japanese flowering sherries in there already,the garden would look crowded.As for Tulips.In the last 2 days I have plants almost 300.they are jusyamazing bulbs!
I don't dislike any plants, just like some more than others. And planting in the right situation helps too. Not that keen on the grasses though, the tall ones, not the lawn kind. Try looking at some of the ones you dislike through a magnifying glass - gives you a different perspective on them. Even grasses!
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I have a very shady garden, with a north and east facing border, and everyboy I speak to about plants to grow recommends them to me - I'd rather have bare earth!
I would also love to have a Makus'Golden Hornet', in my garden,but in the ened what with having 3 Japanese flowering sherries in there already,the garden would look crowded.As for Tulips.In the last 2 days I have plants almost 300.they are jusyamazing bulbs!
Try looking at some of the ones you dislike through a magnifying glass - gives you a different perspective on them. Even grasses!