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Because they're ugly, they get big and floppy sprawling everywhere, they're invasive, the colors are putrid, and they look like creatures that belong at the bottom of a brackish tide pool. Blek.
Forsythia and yet I have it everywhere. It has to be controlled and I don't like that. The yellow is too bright and gaudy, but kind of welcome in early spring. It's tolerable.
I'm also a hater of the purple lilacs I inherited with the yard. I've cut these down as they have basically no value to me. No fall color, hardly any flowers, leaves in summer covered by powdery mildew. The few flowers they did have did not last very long.
What I REALLY hate are invasive plants:
asian honeysuckle,
oriental bittersweet,
ugly brittle siberian elm
to name a few.
So, pay the kids or the grandkids a few bucks to go out there and gather them up when they're just freshly fallen off the tree (they will be a nice brown color but the spikes will still be nice and stiff)....then use them in your pots or flower beds for mulch to keep cats out. Or send them to the poster who was complaining about cats peeing in their flowers!
Works every year to keep my kitty out of the planters on my front porch.
What a great idea! I have to remember that; will be getting another kitty later this year
I also use the them as decoration for gift wrapping, adds a nice touch of nature--at Christmas time mixed with some pine; or dunk them in gold or silver baths and they make great holiday decorations in a bowl, etc.
I dislike geraniums, which makes people shake their head at me. I think they smell awful and I don't like their globe of red flowers. Geraniums just scream "little old lady with at least one cat" to me. I know. I'm odd.
It's funny but although I don't care for pelargoniums (meaning the plants that most people call "geraniums"), I absolutely love the hardy geraniums, LOL
Especially Geranium pratense 'Splish Splash' which combines two of my favorite flower colors: blue and white. It gets a bit leggy during the season but that's expected from a pratense cv. and it's easily cut back. And you can't beat any of the maculatums for groundcover! :-D
Because they're ugly, they get big and floppy sprawling everywhere, they're invasive, the colors are putrid, and they look like creatures that belong at the bottom of a brackish tide pool. Blek.
Funny. I see them everywhere in the Portland, OR area, and I think they are cool. To each his own, I guess.
I completely agree with the sentiments on New Zealand Flax - absolutely vile-looking- and I also have an ongoing (?losing) battle with wild garlic. Photinia not my best either.
Funny how we're all different, We had a magnificent red tip photinia at my old house. It was 15-16 feet high and almost as wide, and was the centerpeice backdrop for our side garden. Had no problems with disease, effectively blocked the noise from traffic. When the tips came out each year it was spectacular. Loved that bush. We never trimmed it, and I think that may be one of the reasons we never had problems with it.
Some plants I don't like:
Astilbe
Wish I could like it, and have tried on a few occasions to develop a love for it. Alas, it just looks ugly to me. I have a shady spot that could use some color, too.
Hellebores
Another plant I wish was attractive to me. It blooms early, when I'm longing to see flowers. Yet the hellebore flowers are ugly to me. They're too brownish and they look downwards. Why can't a few prettier things bloom at that time of the year?
White Pines & Cypress
They look nice when planted, but it doesn't take long before some of them loo terrible. And during a storm or when a heavy snow falls they break far too easily and the damage can be severe.
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