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Dovefromabove
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Is there a plant that you dislike so much that you will never ever have it in your garden?
For me there is just one ... Acuba japonica - the Spotted Laurel - for me it looks so unwell it makes me feel positively poorly myself.
I would never plant it, and if I moved to a garden where it grew, I would dig it up.
Is there a plant that you loathe, no matter how irrationally?
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
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Sorry, but I think both of those are great.
My Aucuba is in dense shade, under the Beech trees and really shines out.
I have a number of Euphorbias, they provide: coloured leaves, winter structure and beautiful acid green flowers.
Big blousy Begonias are about the only thing I hate, but I have grown some of the smaller flowered types and some with the highly patterned leaves.
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Roses!
Euphorbias in any shape or form including poinsettias in the house.
Nasty plasticky looking begonias and busies. Don't mind the Guinea busies though.
Bamboo and most "ornamental" grasses though I do have a few I like.
Tropical/jungle plants in colder climes. Why bother when they need to wrapped in swaddling for 6 months?
Phlomis - I hate the way the flowers go brown and stay that way, don't like the leaves much either. The much-extolled winter silhouette might just about be ok, but things don't stay upright enough to make good silhouettes in the winters we get here!
Not even Lysimahia atropurpereum Beaujolais, Verdun.
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Live euphorbias. Agree about the spotted laurel though.
The ones that always ruin a garden for me and won't be coming anywhere near mine are those brightly coloured, chunky astilbes and the aesthetically similar amaranthus.