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Posted by chileanqueen (U14801067) on Thursday, 24th March 2011
What can't you live with? What would have to go in the first week if you moved to a new garden? What makes you recoil with horror and reach for the weedkiller sprayer?
I cant stand Pampass grass, orange lilies and red hot pokers. I also hate bright red tulips, theres a patch in my garden that the previous owners planted and they come up every year, bright red, shiny and healthy and every year I plan to pull them up but my OH loves them.
Euphorbia. What's the point?
And garish-coloured primulas.
I love all kinds of flowers and most plants, BUT I dont like them if they are Orange.
I cant stand the colour.
I love red tulips and red hot pokers, in fact I can tolerate most plants except for cacti - I hate the vicious things. Nan x
Daff's
Most of the plants left by the previous owners on my garden. First thing to go was the conifers followed by the flaxs, something sounding like hysteria. Brooms, cordolyns and rosemaries. Some like the flax went because I didn't like them others because they were planted in triplicates. ALmost all got rehoused though.
Well I've fallen out of love with Phormiums and anything else too 'spikey'. In a moment of weakness I planted a Pyracantha which looks quite good most of the time but when it comes to pruning to keep it in shape I'm taking my life in my hands with those thorns.
pachysandra terminalis. The most boring ground cover ever.
I will never grow forsythias or magnolias or large flowered hybrid daffs, but only because there are so many lovely ones to see round here. What a bore they are by August, just when my agapanthus and penstemons are in fine fettle.
What can't you live with? What would have to go in the first week if you moved to a new garden? What makes you recoil with horror and reach for the weedkiller sprayer?
I cant stand Pampass grass, orange lilies and red hot pokers. I also hate bright red tulips, theres a patch in my garden that the previous owners planted and they come up every year, bright red, shiny and healthy and every year I plan to pull them up but my OH loves them. Â
Hi, dislikes are anything that struggles to survive our cold Yorkshire winters, especially the last two winters. This includes phormiums, yuccas and cordylines. all of which have turned to mush this last winter. I haven't got the time for high maintenance plants!
When we moved in there was a curry plant in the front garden - yuk! I love curries, but hate the plant. Also totally agree with the person before who said euphorbias - horrible little lime green things. Reminds me of the aliens in Toy Story - they look like eyes watching you - double yuk!
cheers!
The Heuchera the previous owners left in my garden is driving up the bend. I dug them out and gave them to a charity project at work and thought I was done with them, but Oh No. They bloody come back like an unwanted boomerang. They seem to survive better than the bindweed I killed off last year. I really dont like them
Been thinking a while if there was a plant that I really hated - besides mares tale, convulvulas and ground elder that is.
I thought not, but then, yes, there is one - the ground covering campanulas like
c. poscharskyana. I don't like the mauve, the leaves are not great and they have strong "weed" tendencies.
Other taller campanulas like persicaflora I like.
I don`t like any plant that has the combination of blue foliage with yellow flowers, such as santolina.
That awful shrub, is it photonia, with horrible pink leaves. Also alien plants with spiky leaves - phormiums - Leylandii hedges which are used as weapons against neighbours, some variagated plants, (some I like very much), tree ferns that require to be wrapped up in the winter - leave them in New Zealand, most things in certain catalogues where nothing is subtle, plants disreputably advertised as 'wonder' plants which are always miserable little specimens which do nothing before expiring, ditto exotic bulbs that never actually flower.
That's enough to be getting on with.
Oh! I forgot the worst. Poinsettias.
I hate hydrengas. Every garden in the country seems to have one. The sight of those big blue/pink flowers followed by equally big brown balls in winter....yuk
I have to second Heucheras, and I also hate Hostas and Ferns.
I must have sunflowers and bluebells. I can't stand dahlias. They are too big and commercial(if that's the right word).
Is Celandine/wild mustard a noxious weed? It has a delightful flower at this time of year, but in the garden it is impossible to get rid of. I won't take it with me!
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