What plants do you dislike but tolerate for pollinators?

Does it give you a nice smug feeling or do you wish they would succumb to a disease specific only to that plant and that cannot be blamed on you in any way?
Wild marjoram and pulmonaria get my vote. VB is heading that way.

 

I don’t tolerate anything I dislike in the garden, that’s why I’ve got two recycling bins .

 

But the marjoram is covered in butterflies and bees
The pulmonaria is drying up and looking awful. Not even the pollinators are interested - it gets everywhere and causes more damage to pull it out than to leave it..

 

Verbena bonariensis

 

VB grows taller than me, I can't enjoy the flowers like that! And it's got really bad mildew at the moment. I planted some Verbena Rigida this year, much better.

 

For me it's Privet hedging in this soon-to-be-ex house. Full of birds' nests in spring and insects love the flowers just now, but what a pain! The flowers are very fragrant, sadly the scent gives me a headache.

 

I quite like it too but it can become a weed where it's happy. Paving or beds on the dry, sunny side of the garden is VB heaven. They grow about 7ft tall, which is fine at the back of the border. Not so much when they fall over at the front. Or sprout in paving cracks or containers

 

Verbena Bampton seems better behaved but I've only had it a couple of years so I don't know whether there will be seeding issues. Nice compact bush.

 

At the moment I have a lot of self sown evening primrose and still some valerian.

I don't mind them as flowering plants I just wish they would grow in the right places.

 

I tolerate native primroses for their spring cheeriness, though the rest of the yr they look pretty grim and they spread everywhere.

I put up with two small patches of grass as they are useful paths, though the tatty edges, weedy bits, and squirrel excavations do not make for a glorious verdant vista.

 

V. bon isn't a problem here as it often doesn't survive winter. It can be difficult to find a good spot for it though because it needs support. It doesn't get as big here though as the sizes mentioned. I also have a shorter one, but I can never remember which one it is. It's always slow to come through after winter though, but it's managed to survive here - mainly as it's in a small raised bed which helps drainage. It's tolerated several long spells of low temps - ie below minus 8s and 9s.
I love native prims and they flower on and off all year round here. I have some flowering just now. The main problem with them is slug damage on the foliage.

I don't keep anything that I don't like though - regardless of whether it's beneficial in any way, as I have plenty of other plants to suit wildlife/insects etc, and I actively grow things that people would consider to be weeds.
I loathe Pulmonaria, after having it in a previous garden, so it would be pulled if it was in any subsequent garden I had.

 

I’ve found that the seeds of V. Bampton are more persistent than V. Bonariensis @BB3. I’m still getting seedlings popping up two years after removal. I like the plant though .