A plant that raises my blood pressure every time I see it are hideous freak foxgloves, that have been bred so that their blooms stick outwards or even upwards, or bred in hideous freaky colours.
The blooms of foxgloves are meant to be graceful and to hang down pendulously.
WORST OF ALL - the winner of this year’s Chelsea Flower Show Plant of the Year award is a hideous version of same - Digitalis Illumination.
I hate privet because the smell of the flowers is so nauseating that I can't sit outside when it's flowering if it's anywhere in the vicinity. For the rest of the year it's no problem, though boring.
Anything that has been bred to look and behave differenty from it's natural way. Double flowers that the bees cannot use, pink daffodils, yellow geraniums, poky little pants that should be tall and graceful. Variegated leaves with bright flowers, never meant in nature. I suppose anything that has been interfered with so much that it no longer looks like a plant at all.
my mother in law was given a blue orchid and fell in love with it... gradually it went white! she was very disappointed, personally I thought it it was unusual but hideous.
Blue asters. I just don't want purple flowers that late in the year when I'm feeling all orangey and warm! Its maybe because I like a lot of blue in spring and summer, so I'm fed up with it come autumn. Really not a fan of mahonia - I don't think I've ever seen one that wasn't leggy, frost-damaged, or both. Cordylines. Why would you, when you could have phormium, or even yucca?
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I really like native foxgloves.
A plant that raises my blood pressure every time I see it are hideous freak foxgloves, that have been bred so that their blooms stick outwards or even upwards, or bred in hideous freaky colours.
The blooms of foxgloves are meant to be graceful and to hang down pendulously.
WORST OF ALL - the winner of this year’s Chelsea Flower Show Plant of the Year award is a hideous version of same - Digitalis Illumination.
There's a photo of this ridiculous plant here:
Digitalis Illumination
Now, SpringWatch is supposed to be a wildlife program. That's supposed to mean wild flowers - pretty native plants.
What do they have in the background of the main set - two tubs of hideous freak foxgloves.
I hate privet because the smell of the flowers is so nauseating that I can't sit outside when it's flowering if it's anywhere in the vicinity. For the rest of the year it's no problem, though boring.
Anything that has been bred to look and behave differenty from it's natural way. Double flowers that the bees cannot use, pink daffodils, yellow geraniums, poky little pants that should be tall and graceful. Variegated leaves with bright flowers, never meant in nature. I suppose anything that has been interfered with so much that it no longer looks like a plant at all.
my mother in law was given a blue orchid and fell in love with it... gradually it went white! she was very disappointed, personally I thought it it was unusual but hideous.
I've been wondering all day what plant I hate...still can't think of one...
Blue asters. I just don't want purple flowers that late in the year when I'm feeling all orangey and warm! Its maybe because I like a lot of blue in spring and summer, so I'm fed up with it come autumn. Really not a fan of mahonia - I don't think I've ever seen one that wasn't leggy, frost-damaged, or both. Cordylines. Why would you, when you could have phormium, or even yucca?
Holly trees i really hate them apart from the varigated ones