Are there plants that you don’t like?

Those white arum lilies. They grow everywhere as if by magic. Also ginger lilies, same applies. I dug out a huge number of them a couple of years back and they are starting to reappear. I really thought I had dug all their roots out.

I forgot to add - I really hate Pampas grass .
It was so popular at one stage .
There's just one garden near me with a massive one . It takes up most of the front garden.
I don't think that the house is attractive but I acquired it - that Pampas grass would be eradicated on day one before I'd done anything to the house!

I rue the day I planted Japanese aenenome; it's massively invasive, chokes everything growing near it and is even coming up between paving. I ruthlessly rip it out but just can't eradicate the stuff.

I love red robin so much that I dug up several to bring with me when I moved house. The same with my Japaneze anenome which I now have in large pots and can move about to make a show where I want. They also go behind the shed 'corner of shame' when not needed. The red robin was planted in my border to screen from next door...... In a good way, not being anti social.

I never buy, or grow, bedding plants in general; they're expensive to buy, take a lot of watering, dead heading and feeding to keep them going all summer and I think they're poor value for money and too labour intensive. I'd prefer to buy a decent sized perennial, like geum, aquilegia, osteospermum or rudbeckia. They last forever if looked after and split into clumps for elsewhere quite easily.

Bazza I suggest that your husband does some reading up on Red Robin.
He would find that it should be pruned twice a year.

You are not weird. Everyone has plants they dislike. For me, it is lavender. I know everyone loves it. Smells like old ladies and attracts too many bees. And bamboo. Invasive nightmare that takes over everything.

Red robin is photinia. It is popular because it grows fast and stays green. But the red new growth looks fake to me. Like plastic. Sedum is also called stonecrop. The fleshy leaves feel weird. I get it.

Other than roses, really not keen on yellow or orange flowers either.

Yes! Our blasted Japanese anemones! They are so invasive, and are encroaching into the lawn. It’s not as if the flowers last very long, either. They are swamping everything else in an oval bed adjacent to the patio.
I was saying to dh just yesterday, come the autumn, we need to dig the whole lot up and plant something else.

Would highly recommend not planting this.

Our daughter and son in law bought a lovely house recently with a nice garden for the little one, and them of course 😆
But is a border style grass growing against one fence with really stiff long green leaves that they want to remove to plant fruit trees. Is all hell to get rid of, they have been trying everything and eventually our son in law ripped out the roots with a crow bar after breaking a spade and a fork.
Took the better part of 2 weeks.
Not sure if anyone knows what this bushy grassy plant is, is low lying with shaggy long sharp grass?

I can't stand arum lilies or anything with a similar style flower, I do not like anything with a spathe, I find them very ugly. I don't like the small bedding begonias. I think they're totally boring and insignificant and I can't understand why anyone would buy them. Don't like flowering currant, because they smell like cats pee. Don't like viburnum tinus, not the look, but the fact that they smell like dirty wet dogs and poo bags, and for the same reason I don't like rowan trees and hawthorn, because they smell nasty too. Don't like African Marigolds because I think they're ugly. I'm sure there are others, but I can't think of any at the moment.

I find it difficult to understand how anyone can dislike daffodils. I absolutely love to see them brightening the garden and the countryside after a dreary winter. And a bunch in a vase brings some sunshine into my home. We’re planning on planting even more at the bottom of our garden.

One plant that I don’t like is the small flowered begonia that is used as a bedding plant.

Llamedos13

MT62, How can you say that about pansies!Look at these beautifull little faces.

Yes, they are so appealing 😀

Arum lilies, as I mentioned previously.
The reason why we don't grow them is because, many years ago when we had our first house, there was nothing in the garden except some peonies which the previous owners must have missed when they dug everything up to take with them.
Someone gave me arum lilies. My much older neighbour peered over the fence and said "You know they mean death, don't you?". We dug them up and got rid of them.

As for the peonies, some of them have travelled around from garden to garden over the years and are still with us, growing up again this spring.

DianneAngel

I won't have lillies in the garden or the house. I find the scent too overwhelming, plus they are poisonous to cats. hugs

Me too, cannot abide the smell.

Grammaretto

My father died when I was 5 . He was a keen gardener but mostly vegetables. His favourite flower was the bright red "geranium" which had grown in neat rows in his Oxford college quad.

On his birthday each year I buy a geranium. (Pelargonium) and think of him.

If I may say so, Grammaretto-----an original and appropriate ritual.

I have an irrational dislike of bright yellow tulips. They usually come out at the tail end of the daffodil flowering season. It seems to me that, as we have been awash with yellow flowers for about a month, we have had enough.

Grammaretto

Here's my kitchen windowledge today

They're in better shape than mine, however mine are outside in a sheltered spot and did survive the winter.
They are flowering but need a good tidy up. Luckily they are under cover.

Here's my kitchen windowledge today

My father died when I was 5 . He was a keen gardener but mostly vegetables. His favourite flower was the bright red "geranium" which had grown in neat rows in his Oxford college quad.

On his birthday each year I buy a geranium. (Pelargonium) and think of him.

I really dislike Euphorbia, straggly and with milky sap, yuk. Geums, all that deadheading of the ugly stalks once the petals drop off. Calendula took over our garden, and the neighbour’s one too and they didn’t speak to us after that! Purple Hollyhocks also give me the no feeling

Lovetopaint037

Ivy. It’s invasive and a real nuisance.

Absolutely valuable for wildlife of all kinds, though.

twiglet77

I hate plants that hurt, including roses.

You can get thornless roses.
Having said that, I love roses, even ones with thorns - but of course, it’s down to personal preference.

Hate the smell of geraniums and striped petunias. They look so un-natural.

We used to eat the leaves of Hawthorne as kids and called it bread and cheese. Few sweets in those days.