Ooh you can feel the hatred for some plants, duplicates even, very interesting and then complete opposites...like hating gunnera and loving gunnera ( i'm a gunnera lover )
Agree with michaelmas daisy (although i have some), also begonia, hydrangea and most things grown as a standard. I dont like lilies, i think they look awful and smell awful.
Most of my favourite plants have a mention here though - phormium, grasses, yucca, bamboo, gunnera. Love them!
Funny, I like a lot of plants mentioned in this thread. I loathe hostas, heucheras, geraniums, pansies, begonias, and in general anything grown just for its big leaves. And variegated leaves, don't get me started. This modern trend for green-only gardens makes me shudder. They're so boring and have no character, in my opinion. I want flowers and colours in a garden.
Obelixx, which Michaelmas daisies did you like? I've been looking for a nice one for a while, but most of them do seem a tad boring.
I like mahonias... but in other people's gardens. I don't think I'd like one. Same with ...what is it? Sumac that turns such lovely colours in autumn but apparently suckers everywhere. I'm another who doesn't like the "shower cap" hydrangeas...in part because I had to remove a few when I moved in and apparently the builders who built my neighbourhood in the 60s or 70s put them in everywhere.
I'm also not crazy about primroses. I think they are nice where they occur naturally but they are so dull as a garden plant. And the ones with the bright colours... beyond horrible. Reminds me of when my sister used to cover me in make up when we were kids. Tarted up.
Also don't like those tall skinny evergreens. Cypruses? My husband has one in the flat he lived in when we were married and wouldn't let me touch it. "Its architectural." But it wasn't. It was randomly placed in a tiny, irregularly shaped flower bed it is quickly outgrowing in a tiny, irregularly shaped garden.
I don't get why I don't like forsythia because I love yellow and it's actually the same colour as daffodils, which I like, but I've hated it since before I knew what it is. The yellow looks strident and also dead on it.
BUT... I will say many things I thought I didn't like I have seen other people use in beautiful ways in their gardens so maybe it's all about context.
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Amorphophallus, Raffelsia and anything that attracts flies with their vile smell. I suppose they have a purpose somehow.
Also anything that has been hybridised so much as to be almost unrecognisable, like a salmon pink daffodil for example.
Ooh you can feel the hatred for some plants, duplicates even, very interesting and then complete opposites...like hating gunnera and loving gunnera ( i'm a gunnera lover
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I'm growing mine in a pot aym ?
Michaelmas daisies - I honestly thought they were weeds.
Anemone japonica -I don't mind the flowers so much, but they're so untidy.
Aucuba japonica - so popular round here. I can't see the appeal
Another vote for begonias.
Buddleja - I have one for the butterflies, but I hate the smell and they look scruffy 99% of the time.
Azaleas/rhododendrons.
Pansies.
Considering I've been gardening for less than a year, I seem to hold a lot of hatred in my heart...
I fell out with a Lupin big-time this year. She's dead now.
Agree with michaelmas daisy (although i have some), also begonia, hydrangea and most things grown as a standard. I dont like lilies, i think they look awful and smell awful.
Most of my favourite plants have a mention here though - phormium, grasses, yucca, bamboo, gunnera. Love them!
Coleus and amaranthus. Eww.
Funny, I like a lot of plants mentioned in this thread. I loathe hostas, heucheras, geraniums, pansies, begonias, and in general anything grown just for its big leaves. And variegated leaves, don't get me started. This modern trend for green-only gardens makes me shudder. They're so boring and have no character, in my opinion. I want flowers and colours in a garden.
Obelixx, which Michaelmas daisies did you like? I've been looking for a nice one for a while, but most of them do seem a tad boring.
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I like mahonias... but in other people's gardens. I don't think I'd like one. Same with ...what is it? Sumac that turns such lovely colours in autumn but apparently suckers everywhere. I'm another who doesn't like the "shower cap" hydrangeas...in part because I had to remove a few when I moved in and apparently the builders who built my neighbourhood in the 60s or 70s put them in everywhere.
I'm also not crazy about primroses. I think they are nice where they occur naturally but they are so dull as a garden plant. And the ones with the bright colours... beyond horrible. Reminds me of when my sister used to cover me in make up when we were kids. Tarted up.
Also don't like those tall skinny evergreens. Cypruses? My husband has one in the flat he lived in when we were married and wouldn't let me touch it. "Its architectural." But it wasn't. It was randomly placed in a tiny, irregularly shaped flower bed it is quickly outgrowing in a tiny, irregularly shaped garden.
I don't get why I don't like forsythia because I love yellow and it's actually the same colour as daffodils, which I like, but I've hated it since before I knew what it is. The yellow looks strident and also dead on it.
BUT... I will say many things I thought I didn't like I have seen other people use in beautiful ways in their gardens so maybe it's all about context.
I forgot pieris. The combination of that particular red with that particular green just hurts my eyes.