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Old 04-14-2014, 04:45 AM
 
Location: Floribama
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I hate Nandina, not sure why people buy those ugly scraggly things. Golden Euonymus is ugly too.
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Old 04-14-2014, 05:56 AM
 
Location: In a happy, quieter home now! :)
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Roses and tulips.
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Old 04-14-2014, 06:15 AM
 
Location: Coastal Georgia
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I don't really like anything with variegated leaves.
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Old 04-14-2014, 02:11 PM
 
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I don't like irises. Half the petals point up and the other petals points down. Weird flower.
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Old 04-14-2014, 02:38 PM
 
Location: Pittsburgh, PA
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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.
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Old 04-14-2014, 03:53 PM
 
Location: Iowa
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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.
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Old 04-14-2014, 10:19 PM
 
Location: Southwest Washington State
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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.
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Old 04-15-2014, 09:07 AM
 
Location: Glenbogle
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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. ;-)
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Old 04-15-2014, 09:09 AM
 
Location: Glenbogle
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I really dislike paperwhites. They are probably the worst smell in the world to me.
Same here. I find the smell nauseating. Too me it smells like a combination of "musky" and sickeningly sweet.
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Old 04-15-2014, 10:32 AM
 
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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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