Are there plants that you don’t like?

The leaves of eucalyptus trees and bushes rattle noisily in a breeze. Our neighbour had one on the border but when they moved, the new neighbours chopped it down.

I have a Photinia ‘Red Robin’ in a border, shaped as a tree. It is flowering at the moment and I think it looks stunning. I’m not a fan of bedding plants, especially Begonias.

I doubt if anyone could love Japanese Knotweed could they?

I really don’t like poinsettias, I always up with a stalk after a couple of weeks. Also, really dislike these miniature roses in baskets that are everywhere at the moment. I cringe inside when given one of these. They never last either.

I love just about every plant but for strange reason, I can’t stand French and African marigolds, nor do I want a sycamore anywhere near my garden though DH admired and used the wood for turning.
Seabear I think Japanese knotweed is rather pretty in bloom, but the only answer to it is to exterminate, exterminate, exterminate!

Fatoldlady

I don't like daffodils, so garish! One or two might be ok, but they seem to grow in groups of thousands.

shocked Don't you just think they are lovely and cheery after the winter gloom ?!!!
As everyone is saying though, we all like different things.

I don't like lilies or amaryllis.

The accursed one in the overgrown garden which came with a change of house.

It looked very pretty when we viewed the house, and was everywhere but when we moved in and got someone in to raze the garden we discovered that it had also colonised the house wall, aided by water from a dripping gutter, so we have damp in the living room and need to get a builder in to remove a linear 2 metres of render and brickwork to get it completely out of the wall and - it spreads through rhyzomes - under the tarmac drive.

Oh, horror, I have just done some googling and realised it might be oxalis.

I dislike Laurel particularly the spotted variety,Privet and Photinia .
I prefer other hedging such as Japonica and Camellia.

I like nothing yellow, so I’ve no daffodils or crocus in my garden. I buy the odd bunch of daffs for indoors, but for the hall table. As for sycamores - don’t start me on the giant in the garden behind mine!

Really dislike hydrangeas and begonias and not keen on gladioli but above all I definitely hate with a vengeance any sort of bamboo as it's such a devil to destroy.

I love all flowers, except one - Herb Robert - which has turned up in my garden and is an utter pain and I'm forever pulling it up. Looks pretty but it STINKS! Even just brushing past it - horrible pong!

When I was a kid, I hated geraniums- always reminded me of old ladies and window cills. But now I love them in my pots and window boxes as they are easy to look after.

I dislike Begonias and Dahlias and not too keen on Marigolds either - childhood association again.

Stinking Iris ! It does ! We had clumps of it when we moved here and it spreads like nobody's business the roots are very hard and woody. Flowers are dusty colours and the only good thing would be the red berries that hang on through winter, but you can't leave them or they would spread even more. I've been digging them up and pulling out tiny one for 30 years. I don't like petunias they get horrible and sticky and at the first fall of rain they look ragged.

Herb Robert smells of carrots, doesn’t it? Or am I confusing it with something else.

It never occurred to me to dislike a plant or flower, though I suppose I like some better than others. I have known someone who really hated tulips.

Quite a few, but bamboo is top of the list,
Grasses especially pampas grass.
Anything terribly scented
Chrysanthemums
lots of other things I can't think of atm

Generally, as I have a minute garden, I plant a few of just the things that I like.

I dislike hortensias to such an extent that I refuse to plant them in my garden. As they are popular here, I risk being given them, but fortunately, I always suceed in killing them off.

How I wish I could do rhw same with the laurels that spread like a plague in my garden and that horrible yellow dogweed hedge that I just cannot get rid of.

I don't like Cactii at all.
Curiously I know two people who love the blighters. A friend of mine and the OH although we don't have any in the house at present just the Aloe Vera (does that count?) outside. We were in Nice , France, for a special birthday a few years ago and there is a marvellous Cactii garden on the outskirts of the town that is well worth a visit for other reasons so they're not all bad.

Poinsettia. Oh how i dread getting one for Christmas.

I really don't like Euphorbia, alchemilla mollis or indeed any plants with green flowers.

I don't like hostas, which is a pity as I have several shady spots in my garden; also pelargoniumd as I don't like the smell and, for some unfathomable reason, ferns especially when they curl up. There are plenty I love though as my garden centre receipts show!

Nanny27

Poinsettia. Oh how i dread getting one for Christmas.

This is fascinating because as a child and young woman I loathed getting Xmas cards with the dreaded Poinsettia thereon. I don't know what happened , just a change of taste I suppose, but now I love them and we buy one every Christmas. They grow wild in places like the Canaries.
Scarlet red and deep forest green.
Takes all sorts.

missdeke

I really don't like Euphorbia, alchemilla mollis or indeed any plants with green flowers.

I so agree. I don’t like any of them plus “elephants ears” and lupins and tulips.

There are lots of plants I don't like and would not have in my garden. I'm not keen on the regular for Photinia Red Robin, but I had until I moved house a couple of years ago, a really nice variegated one called pink marble. I don't like the box standard Philadelphus, Hypericum, or the low growing rock garden type of sedums. Don't like any type of arum, because I think the "spathes" are ugly. There are lots I don't like because of the smell such as Virburnum Tinus, which smells like dirty dogs, likewise Hawthorn and Rowan trees, which smell horrible too. Don't like the smell of the flowers on the bog standard dark green privet.

When are they going to put an edit button on here?!