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Plants you don't like...are there any?

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  • raisingirlraisingirl Posts: 7,091

    The Hydrangeas with the flowers that look like 70s shower caps

    Gardening on the edge of Exmoor, in Devon

    “It's still magic even if you know how it's done.” 
  • Invicta2Invicta2 Posts: 663

    Lots of plants.

    Nasty smelling ones like privet.

    Hybrid Tea roses [and any other "stick" form of rose.]

    Phormiums, yuccas and ornamental grasses.

    Viburnum tinus and other dull evergreens

    So called purple shrubs and trees that are really brown like Prunus "pissardii"

    Rampaging thugs, e.g. Houttoniya and certain Campanula.

    Oversize "architectural" plants such as Gunnera.

    Not forgetting Aucuba japonica variegata

  • Green wizard rudbeckia, hate them. Tall, ugly and I finally did what I wanted to do for  few years now,dug out the beggar and killed it! One of my sisters hates it as well. Her problem is that her husband likes it so it remains in their yard.

    Marigold, a real yawner of a plant.

  • B3B3 Posts: 27,505

    Ceanothisimage forsythiaimage michaelmas daisiesimage and I don't particularly like sweet peas either.

    In London. Keen but lazy.
  • I have a Mahonia that I would hate even if it didn't send up suckers everywhere.

    I'm not especially keen on Hostas either.

    Begonias, too, for some reason.

  • ObelixxObelixx Posts: 30,088

    I forgot forsythia and flowering currant, especially hen planted together.

    Love roses but most do need to be planted with other stuff to hide their legs and I don't see the point of once flowering shrubs and those with no perfume.

    I used to dislike Michaelmas daisies till we went to Picton Gardens in September and found some really lovely ones.  Far too many have faded looking teeny starry flowers that look like a weed that proliferates here and then there's all that bovver with mildew.

    Having seen a majestic gnnera at Keukenhof and also Beth CHatto's garden I will be planting one here - once the pond edges have been cleared of all the brambles and bullrush which brings me to iris pseudacorus - nasty thug with terraforming ambitions.  Hate it for wrecking my pond in Belgium..

    Vendée - 20kms from Atlantic coast.
    "The price good men (and women) pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men (and women)."
    Plato
  • fidgetbonesfidgetbones Posts: 17,618

    I hate that black lily grass, Ophiopogon, It just looks dead to me.

  • hogweedhogweed Posts: 4,053

    Poinsettias - hate them with a vengeance. Mahonia - horrible plants. 

    'Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement' - Helen Keller
  • NewbNewb Posts: 211

    Loving this thread. Very funny ?

  • NewbNewb Posts: 211

    Showercap hydrangea LOL image 

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