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What will simply not thrive for you....
I cannot succeed with leucanthemums....touch wood, I have a couple that are thriving but generally they are affected by a disease. (I can id it) that turns them brown in mid summer. for past 3 years now I have lost most of them.
if someone is growing them well how do you grow them?
what plants frustrate you in this way? Maybe we can advise you too 
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Crocosmias, they don't even have healthy looking leaves
In the sticks near Peterborough
Is that those big daisies Verdun, Margarette type things, grow like weeds here, but I can't grow Lavender, in the garden, they don't like damp acid soil.
gosh Nut, crocosmia , grow anywhere and everywhere down here, there again, maybe acid loving,
also can't grow fruit trees, they don't like the altitude and would be blown over.
Maybe not a desert plant Lyn
In the sticks near Peterborough
Did those little bulb things grow for you Nut, can't remember the name off hand?
Hang on Lyn, just going to check, the came through the winter OK and I planted them out then forgot about them. Back soon
In the sticks near Peterborough
They're looking well thank you Lyn. If we don't get the predicted rain on Friday I'll water them. They might like that
I don't do garden watering except for new plantings but that is an almost new planting
In the sticks near Peterborough
Rhodos and azaleas et al as I have alkaline but very fertile loamy soil.
Leucanthemums do very well here but I can't get Chinese lanterns to grow and am on my 5th and last attempt with white Japanese anemones. Pink ones fine. Whites always give up but I have some that came through their first winter OK - but we didn't have a winter. Barely got below zero last year.
Crocosmia won't grow for me either so I've given up.
Can't get Wild Swan here and getting it sent mail order would be expensive. I prefer to stick to good doers or good value plants these days. Spent too much on wusses.