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Geraniums just scream "little old lady with at least one cat" to me.
And what is wrong with being an old lady and having cats?
I really dislike paperwhites. They are probably the worst smell in the world to me. I would rather smell rotting garbage. I cannot believe that people buy candles and room sprays in paperwhite scent.
Tulips top my list. They bloom, then nothing the rest of the summer. I have some, previous owner planted them, I've dug some up, given them away and still have more. I had an area replanted, they took some ugly broken down bushes out, put new ones in (hydrangea) and the tulips survived, go figure.
I hate Nandina, not sure why people buy those ugly scraggly things. Golden Euonymus is ugly too.
I have some Nandina, and I think they look like rags. But I saw some great looking Nandina bushes in dowtown Vancouver, WA, and I was amazed at how striking they are. I think mine need to be rehabbed or ditched.
and I also have an ongoing (?losing) battle with wild garlic..
Wild garlic is the bane of my gardening existence. The only thing I can imagine that would be worse/impossible to get rid of would be poison ivy.
Someone told me that the secret to using herbicides on it is the whack the heck out of the leaves with a stick or something, before spraying RoundUp etc on it. I heard this over the winter and so haven't had a chance to try it out yet. Years ago someone told me that the only herbicide that works on it is Image, which is banned in my state. But I suspect that Image would just roll off the intact leaves, just like all the other sprays do.
I'm actually looking forward to beating the you-know-what out of the miserable stuff, LOL. Whether that enables the RoundUp to work or not. ;-)
Hydrangeas are pretty hard on the eyes when they are dormant. They are beautiful in bloom, and look respectable when just leafy, but when it's just a bunch of reeds poking out of the ground...not so much
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