Sorry Fairygirl, but Purple Loosestrife was one of the most important flowers of my childhood. It grew along the banks of the small rivers we used to play in and beside, and we pushed our way through stands of it with its the unique scent. It instantly reminds me of those places and all the other plants that grew there, the willows we used to pollard which the ducks nested in. Every year we looked forward to seeing the ducklings having to flutter 15 feet into the stream from the nest. Purple Loosestrife - top plant!
Kniphofia (Red Hot Poker), hate 'em, hate 'em, hate 'em. The first house my parents bought had loads of them in the garden and I beheaded the lot by running past them with a carving knife in my hand.
Hyacinth, indoor and out, I simply can stand the scent.
Kniphofia (Red Hot Poker), hate 'em, hate 'em, hate 'em. The first house my parents bought had loads of them in the garden and I beheaded the lot by running past them with a carving knife in my hand.
That made me laugh out loud KT53!
Not overly keen on them either - the bog standard one anyway.
It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
Bizzy Lizzies (don't like the stems or the exploding seed pods), Golden Rod (foul acid yellow colour) and mahonia (leathery leaves and acid yellow blooms).
Oh dear! I like most of the plants that people hate. I even like my Aucuba shining out from under the lime tree where nothing else will grow!
How can people not like roses? But there is one type of rose I'm not keen on and those are so-called "blue" roses which are never really blue and look rather dirty. I don't like most grasses, for me grass is a weed and looks like one. Should be in the field.
Dordogne and Norfolk. Clay in Dordogne, sandy in Norfolk.
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Sorry Fairygirl, but Purple Loosestrife was one of the most important flowers of my childhood. It grew along the banks of the small rivers we used to play in and beside, and we pushed our way through stands of it with its the unique scent. It instantly reminds me of those places and all the other plants that grew there, the willows we used to pollard which the ducks nested in. Every year we looked forward to seeing the ducklings having to flutter 15 feet into the stream from the nest. Purple Loosestrife - top plant!
I'm quite happy for it be on river banks Joe- t-g, just not in my garden
Have a love/hate relationship with heathers Verd!
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
Kniphofia (Red Hot Poker), hate 'em, hate 'em, hate 'em. The first house my parents bought had loads of them in the garden and I beheaded the lot by running past them with a carving knife in my hand.
Hyacinth, indoor and out, I simply can stand the scent.
That made me laugh out loud KT53!
Not overly keen on them either - the bog standard one anyway.
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
Bizzy Lizzies (don't like the stems or the exploding seed pods), Golden Rod (foul acid yellow colour) and mahonia (leathery leaves and acid yellow blooms).
Oh dear! I like most of the plants that people hate. I even like my Aucuba shining out from under the lime tree where nothing else will grow!
How can people not like roses? But there is one type of rose I'm not keen on and those are so-called "blue" roses which are never really blue and look rather dirty. I don't like most grasses, for me grass is a weed and looks like one. Should be in the field.
Fake coloured heathers - even saw some today smothered with sparkly Cmas bling -wrong any season of the year!
Hate grasses (but love sedges) Red Hot Pokers are vile, can't stand Golden Rod.
Adore wild flower meadows, love beautiful lawns, hate weedy grass. (sorry). I'm sure there are more.