Flowers you just love to "HATE!"

I have mixed feelings about the multicoloured polys.
They are cheerful little things that look like they just want to have fun but they look so damned artificial! They remind me of the "pink" n bling girls you see tottering around town centres on a Friday night.

 

Have recently moved house and find myself with a garden full of bluebells - does anybody want them? Just a plague as far as I'm concerned. Also agree with the comments re multi-coloured polyanthus and Alchemilla.........

 

Have recently moved house and find myself with a garden full of bluebells - does anybody want them? Just a plague as far as I'm concerned. Also agree with the comments re multi-coloured polyanthus and Alchemilla.........

 

Yep! agree Sarra - we have a purple Buddleia and it attracts loads of butterflies- they are lovely to see.
It is well pruned every year so it doesn't get straggly.

Plants I don't especially like are orchids! Some of them aren't even pretty - well I think not.

And has anybody grown these - Stapelia - they stink





That is a lovely pic Shiney -this afternoon? looks like summer is here.

 

Hey jjordie. Love that picture. Don't know it Is that a stapelia? Must have one.

 

Makka you are obviously not a gardener because as far as I am concerned all flowers, plants,shrubs and trees are all beautiful in one way or another.What one person finds unattractive another will find delight in it.

I am just glad that I am fortunate to have my own piece of land where I can grow all the plants that will attract Birds,Bees,Butterflies,and Insects.To me that is heaven on earth

 

As I said Kandy, we will all disagree here except I agree with the plants I don't like others will love. Nobody's right or wrong it's just what you like and I still want one of those stinky stapelias. They will go with my amorphophalluses (amorphophalli?) (Dead horse plants).

 

I`ve tring to think of a flower I dislike while reading this thread. but I cannot think of ONE. I like them all, for one reason or another.

 

My contribution is Lily of the Valley, the scent is really awful.

 

Sarra - I used to have a stapelia plant but it died so I had to google for that picture.
Dead Horse plant?? that's a new one for me.

 

I bet I'm the only GC member that grows both sarracenias and amorphophallus Jjordie. Actually I bet I'm the only one that grows either No wonder no one asks my advice. :D

 

If you want a stapelia John I can probably provide you with a cutting or two, I have the one in Jjordies pic and this one, both have a very interesting scent. :D

 

Hi Shiney,
Yes! I had a Peacock butterfly sitting on the drive last Friday. It spent most of the time opening and closing it's wings,absorbing the heat from the sun,it really was warm.
We now have quite a lot of sparrows in our area again. .Next door feeds them,and all the other birds as well.
They fly from a Forsythia bush in my garden back and forward to shrubs in next doors.
Every time the sparrows few either into or out off the Forsythia, the butterfly would take off after them.
At first I thought I was imagining it, but I kept watching, and it was doing it!

It was almost as comical as our resident Carrion Crow,chasing the wood pigeons, seagulls and the buzzards as they pass by!

 

plastic flowers, just cant stand them and if it doesnt count..i still hate them