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Don't be scaredy cat.....

VerdunVerdun Posts: 23,348
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now, what plants are you tiring of?  What plants have simply overstayed their welcome? 

salvia Hotlips is sold and planted everywhere but why?  It can have red and white flowers at times when it looks ok but usually it is not attractive. Penstemons too ....some are good but some are not but they are now overplanted. Day Lilies?  Flowers for a day but retains the old ugly flowerheads that spoil foliage and embryo flowers all summer 

and chrysanthemums?  Over rated autumn performers with ungainly stems and short lasting flowers

don't be timid.....what are not so great in the garden?  image

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  • StagbeetleStagbeetle Posts: 174
    My hubby doesn't like buddlea but I love it and he has tried to get rid of it and even bent an electric saw blade on it and it still sprung up the following year.

    I have a red robin (I think) and I'm not keen on it as it hasn't done a lot but can't bare to get rid of it though.
  • FairygirlFairygirl Posts: 55,117

    Never understood the attraction of that Salvia Verd image

    My garden's too new to get rid of anything, but give me a few months... image

    It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....



    I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
  • Hostafan1Hostafan1 Posts: 34,888

    hot lips does nothing for me either and virtually all "summer bedding"

    Devon.
  • Lyn Sycamore CottageLyn Sycamore Cottage Posts: 21
    Lol over sized trampolinesimage but fixed that one thanks to gumtree image- nice big space to plant out my camillias and some nice new plants. Bit hard this time of year so much of my garden now looks v sad, camellias always gd n full of bud ready to go. Started last wknd a really hard cut back of hedges, rain stopped play this wknd, things I'm axing couple of roses that just haven't performed well last two years, think I need new stock, n my hellibores really love my soil n threatening to take over universe so think will be cutting down numbers of them,

    Big success my wisteria finally got going, can't wait to see it flower properly next year.
  • LynLyn Posts: 23,190

    almost all of my orange Monbretia have gone, some clove thingy that get very tall and the rabbits eat it. lots of other stuff, will have a think.

    Gardening on the wild, windy west side of Dartmoor. 

  • plant pauperplant pauper Posts: 6,904

    I can't throw living things in the bin. image I put up with all sorts of unpleasantries as a result. I have inherited several roses (not a fan) but how can I just tip them out? It's not their fault. They're doing their best. image

  • richhondacrichhondac Posts: 222
    Hot lips is ok if you cut it to the floor every year I don't like buddleas they seem to be invasive weeds to me
  • a1154a1154 Posts: 1,108

    I planted 3 clumps of golden rod, and really dislike it now.  Also i think 6 michaelmas daisies. Dont like them either. SIgh.  Love buddleia though. 

  • B3B3 Posts: 27,494

    A horrible shrub with boring leaves that has pink fuzzy blossoms for a fortnight which die and go brown. I don't even care what it's called. It's growing under a climbing rose so it's going to be a b####r to get out. I think it snuck under the fence from next door.

    In London. Keen but lazy.
  • FairygirlFairygirl Posts: 55,117

    It sounds a bit like that pink spirea that I loathe B3. It has yellowy foliage though. That's why I hate it so much - the combination image

    With you on Golden Rod a1154. Vile plant.  image

    The white Bergenia's on it's last warning....it's just not thriving anywhere I put it. It's not because I don't like it. 

    It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....



    I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
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