Allotment Gardening Advice Help Chat
Growing => General Gardening => Topic started by: Oliveview on May 01, 2008, 17:09
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I think the ornamental cabbage plants are terrible :shock: And gardinia smell dreadful. We once had a plant come up- right by the step, so we always brushed past it and it really smelt bad. I was going on a coach trip to Dixter to see the gardens and I told another person on the coach about the plant- she asked if it smelt of BO and I said yes, she said it´s common name was Smelly Armpit and it was part of the Salvia family. When we got to Dixter there was a hedge almost of it, right at the back of the flower bed so you couldn´t brush against it. To get rid of the plant I had to cover the plant with a bin bag and pull it up then put the bin bag inside another 2 bin bags before the smell was masked :shock:
Pamela
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I agree about ornamental cabbages and I hate pampas grass, well in gardens that are too small for it that is :D
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Another to add to the do not like list is the bizzy lizzie, nice in the house but in the flower bed/basket????? UGH
Pamela
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I'm not a fan of ornamental cabbage either, or pampass grass for that matter, and yes, there are a lot of plants, that irritate your nose, it was the flowering currant that had to go first, when we moved, as it smelled of urine to me any time I went outside, nearby it. I first did blame the dog for a long while. :oops:
Next is cotton lavender flowers, ooh. And then, I hate the stink of marigolds a lot, too. :lol: :lol: :lol:
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There was a question on Gardeners' Question Time once "where is the best place to grow pampas grass?" to which the reply from one of the panel was "Argentina". I agree.
Charlie
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I hate crocosmia and it's been in every garden i have had. ( what's the chances of that :!: ) Luckily it's not on my allotment. :D
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I love the red crocosmia Lucifer and my mate has a yellow one which looks fab. The common ones are a bit annoying when you get too many (like I have ) :D
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I only had the ordinary ones, maybe if I had some of the new varieties I would have liked them. :lol:
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though I like smaller cordylines I hate the huge ones in the middle of a paved garden with no other plants around
Pampas grass should be outlawed :-)
as should rhododendron, a lot of species have caused so much harm to our woodland and park areas - though not all
geraniums, because I cant grow them indoors, but the wild ones have taken over my 2 beds where I just about to plant veg
emerald trees because I always kill them, though they are beautiful, in fact they were my first plant
cheese plants - erm cheesy :-)
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roses :evil:
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roses :evil:
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ah roses...gotta agree with that too...bored to the back teeth of em! prepare to be shot at dawn
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roses :evil:
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i am entitled to my own opinion gobby :wink: i just dont like em
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roses :evil:
Oh I agree! When we moved into this house, before I felt it was 'mine' I kept coming across roses in the undergrowth. I lost count of the thorns I got in my hands. Eventually I realised that it was my garden and I could take them out if I wanted! So I did!! Just left a few lovely ones, which I admit to tending to within an inch of their lives!
But no, not my favourite things.