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Plants I don't like (for no particular reason)

Lou12Lou12 Posts: 1,149

So gardners what plants don't you like?

I dislike allium, I always want to chop those smug blue permed heads right off.

Hydrangea - hate them, nobody ever dead heads them so they sit there scattered about the neighbourhood with dead heads all over them. Also you buy a nice pink one and it grows blue because nobody told me they are nature's litmus papers - crafty devils, luring you in with promises of pink flowers that never happen.

Hostas - look nice but slug bait in seconds so look like doilies all year round.

Lilies - nope, I don't want funeral flowers in my garden thanks and also they look like some kind of triffid.

Fushias - no idea why I don't like them but I just don't. I even bought some bushes this year in the hopes I would be a convert but nope......

Nasturtium - they look nice on the packet but in the beds they run riot and get into everything including climbing up the outside wall and  through the double glazing on one occasion and then self seed to infinity.

Orchids - triffids from outer space, enough said.

I think that's it but there may be more.

 

 

 

 

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  • Hostafan1Hostafan1 Posts: 34,888

    Lou,Lou, Lou. tsk @ you.

    My hostas don't look like doilies. but I do agree  , ( sorry Lyn ) about fuchsias.

    Can I just say I pretty much hate all summer bedding. Not the individual plants, but collectively. Blue lobelia, white alysum backed with Salvia blaze of fire( oh we've done this for almost 40 years now). I just want to napalm the whole lot. 

     

    Devon.
  • punkdocpunkdoc Posts: 15,039

    Lou, are there any plants you do like?

    Not a fan of Begonias, except some of the modern, small flowered varieties.

    How can you lie there and think of England
    When you don't even know who's in the team

    S.Yorkshire/Derbyshire border
  • Hostafan1Hostafan1 Posts: 34,888

    nasturtiums running riot is a sign of good healthy soil. If you have somewhere with rubbishy soil, you'll get more flowers and less foliage.

    Devon.
  • Hostafan1Hostafan1 Posts: 34,888

    image

    Devon.
  • Monkey Puzzle Tree's .... just no. 

  • Lou12Lou12 Posts: 1,149

    Yes punkdoc, I think I like almost everything else except as hostafan regimented summer bedding. I like free and easy summer bedding image

    Am currently crazy about anything orange in the garden, why have I never discovered orange before?

  • Hostafan1Hostafan1 Posts: 34,888

    orange can looks stunning next to a really dark purple, or deep blood red.

     

    Devon.
  • B3B3 Posts: 27,480
    Michelmas daisies - they mean it's all over until next year. Forsythia, ceanothus - they're creepy, pieris, municipal Salvias and that silver stuff,pink flowers next to orange or yellow flowers, that dyed heather, big daffodils on verges and roundabouts and predictive textus sinensis
    In London. Keen but lazy.
  • Hostafan1Hostafan1 Posts: 34,888

    B3, pretty much all heathers, in fact ALL heathers

    Devon.
  • B3B3 Posts: 27,480
    They look nice in Scotland and Dartmoor. But I agree with you about putting them in the garden .
    In London. Keen but lazy.
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