What plants would you not have in the garden?

Grass!

(The ordinary common variety you see in lawns everywhere.)

 

Petunias - my Father's would drop all over the place, stain the paths and always looked so funereal and depressing.
Camellia - again because the leaves of those my Father grew were always going black and were smothered in some sort of sticky goo. Yeuk
Peonies - Father's fault, again - huge boring bushes with, if you were lucky, the occasional flower.
Lavatera and bamboo - had both, both took over and took years to get rid of.
Buddleia - boring, untidy
Busy lizzies
Centranthus - my 'Alba Pura' must be the most boring plant ever - trouble is it just keeps on flowering!
Hydrangea - why do I want to look at dead bracts for months on end?
Lilies - to me they 'stink' and the pollen stains everything
Agapanthus - I brought some home from the Channel Islands years ago and quickly realised I didn't want my garden to constantly smell of garlic. They now seem to be this years 'must have' since I don't think there's been a single gardening programme on TV this year that hasn't featured it.

Good grief - looking at this lot, it's a wonder I've got any flowers in my garden, but I have ..... honest

 

Hey Fidgetsmum - was that you looking over my fence yesterday?
I've got all of those!!:OUCH:

 

My former neighbour's peony would be covered in fat, promising-looking buds each spring. They'd all unfurl into blowsy marshmallows at the same time, at which point the heavens would open and flatten the lot. Sticks, wires and string never did the trick. And that would be it ..... for the year.

 

Top of my list is Leylandii. You've probably gathered that from my threads over the past few months!

Hydrangeas
Ivy
Violas

There's a couple more, but my brains addled and I just can't think of their names at the moment.

 

With a bit of research I'm there!

Montbretia, just cant get rid of it!
Aquilegia, for the same reason in a previous garden.

 

leylandii, dogwood, bamboo that has no root barrier, conifers, old apple trees, buddleia, old roses that have not been pruned properly, pampas grass etc etc

 

Pampas grass is another...... thanks for reminding me dim!

 

I'm with JWK on this one, Sycamores. Hideous things.
We have several just across the road, any time now the seeds will come spiralling across the road in their thousands, all ready to germinate next spring and mount their annual campaign to take over my patch.
Unattractive, invasive, aphid ridden thugs!

 

Pansies

 

Mmm, firewood....

 

Good job you don't work where I do then Jane.
Started planting out the winter bedding this week. We've put in about 800 winter Pansies so far, got roughly the same amount to go in next week too. :D

 

I agree with some of the suggestions so far. Namely Hydrangea (or 'The Biddy Plant' as I call it because it always seems to be in the gardens of elderly folk), and sycamore, which is never a pretty tree at the best of times, but especially when there's one overhanging my garden from next door that almost spans the width of the garden and is higher than the house, but fortunately is leaning gradually more and more away from my side. It'll go over in a storm one day, with a bit of luck. I just hope nobody is under it when it happens.

I'd also add:
Pansies - they just look so fake
Red salvias - again, fake looking. We have some because the very nice old man at the nursery saw my son eyeing them up, obviously drawn to the striking colour, and when I refused to buy them, the old man just gave a tray load of them to my son, who was over the moon at this, and even remembered they were in the car boot when we arrived home, so we had to plant them.

 

I know what some of you mean about sycamores. We have a large specimen behind our garden. It seeds everywhere and the saplings grow alarmingly quickly. One took root just a few doors down from us, in the 'outdoor space' of a less than enthusiastic gardener. He simply ignored it as it reached for the sky. The rest of us wondered how long it would be before we had any light at all in our little back gardens. Luckily, an October storm brought it crashing to the ground. Even then I think our reluctant gardener would still have ignored it, were it not for the fact that it was obstructing his gate. So, for the first and only time, he was forced to do a bit of clearing up.

Despite all this, I have grown quite fond of the parent tree. If I were living anywhere else, I probably wouldn't want it. Here, however, it blocks out some rather hideous flats and gives me something green to look at instead. It is also home to many birds - including a pair of jays. I was even thinking - wait for it - that when I move I might take a seedling with me, just for old time's sake. But there again, maybe not. I dunno. Maybe I could bonzai it.