Change of Attitude

Oh and those ubiquitous spiky plants used in landscaping. Yawn.

 

It's well time cordylines went out of fashion!

 

Can't be doing with Hydrangeas - always looked 'washed out' when I was a child.

Not keen on Roses - ex-OH's fault. He planted the entire garden with them to look like a Rose Nursery - our 3 children couldn't play in the garden and I couldn't have a washing line .

Don't like 'green flowers' - I agree with honeybunny, green leaves are quite enough!

Don't like things with 'spikes/thorns' - unless I need it for 'protective hedging'.

Not keen on 'daisy-like flowers' - the dropping petals look scraggy.

.................... but my 'overall pet hate' is cut flowers. They really do need to be seen in the context of 'growing in a garden'. I CAN understand their use for somebody who can't gain access to outdoor space to enjoy them in their proper setting - but even then, flowering pot plants are far preferrable .

 

I think there's a place in nature for every plant so I don't dislike anything.

 

I agree. I'm grateful for anything that decides to grow, flower, live, survive, fight for life in my garden. Vee

 

Are you sure?????

To be fair, there is a place in nature for everything, but not my garden!

 

Yep I'm positive thanks ............I don't dislike any plants and I don't dislike any colours. It's just a pity I haven't got more room!

 

Boy do I know that feeling!

 

Kniphofia, brugmansia and arum lilies - so ugly imho - they don't even look like flowers. In fact anything that doesn't look like a flower has no room in my garden. Hypericum is another plant that gives me the heebies jeebies especially the berries.

Creating a garden is like choosing your house furnishings we all have differing tastes in colour and decor so why put up with anything that doesn't float your boat.

 

Brugmansias get the chop, eh? You're a hard lady to please! Totally agree with you about the Kniphofias, even the names are unpleasing.

Hydrangeas look great in Pembrokeshire and Cornwall, less good inland and extremely insipid in suburbia. Were they trendy in the 50s?

I wish I had more room as well, so the solution is to be totally ruthless with those so-so sort of plants. If I was to clear the garden and start again what permanent plants would I have to save? Lilies, jasmine, rheum, polygonums, vitis coignetiae, thornless blackberry, rodgersias, sambucus, cotinus. The list is frighteningly short, maybe I made a lot of poor decisions when I did some structural planting.

So Fern 4, I think I need to look at my garden and think not in terms of what I dislike, but which plants give me positive joy and pleasure every time I see them, and get more of those and reduce the so-so ones!