What are your most forgiving plants?

[SalaciousCrumble]

I got carried away this spring and spent hours nurturing and growing larkspur and stocks to find them munched or wilting the second I turned my back. On the other hand I lobbed a couple of packets of poppies and night scented stocks on a bare patch in a corner and left them and now have a stunning display with no effort.

Same for perennials - foxgloves and hollyhocks have come up from seed and reliably bring me joy but I either over- or under-prune salvias each year or they just give up after a couple of year. Delphiniums too - they just get slugged and lose the will to try no matter where I put them!

I'd love to know which forgiving plants work for other people. What have you just bunged in and keeps going despite neglect or bad management??

We inherited peonies when we moved in three years ago. Have never touched them and they flower beautifully.
Crocosmia looks after itself.
Rambling rose same.
Aquilegia are robust & self-seed in rough patches.

I've never successfully grown chrysanthemum :(

Honeysuckle, ferns, aquilegia, calendula, campanula, feverfew, day lilies, cornflower, pulmonaria, primroses, Hardy geraniums, loosestrife, michaelmas daisies, heucheras, Japanese anenome, forget me nots.

Hardy geranium, I plant them so slapdash, in the wrong places, in a rush, move em, plant up seedlings badly and in a rush, and they never fail!

Oh yes I love aquilegia, never bought a seed but all kinds just pop up in the borders somehow! Japanese anemones are also great and oxeye daisies. Scabious is always so forgiving too.

EwwSprouts I've never tried chrysanthemum but have never done well with dahlias. Anything that needs so much coddling is probably going to die when I forget to water or something.

findingMeno I planted what I was told was day lilies a couple of years ago and they have never flowered. Now you mention it I wonder if they are actually day lilies at all...

Sedums are also so nice and forgiving, chop them down, divide them, never water them and they still persist.

Hardy Fuschias are great. You can butcher them and they grow back even stronger.
Crocosmia is another.
I have great success with Peonies too
My honeysuckle has never looked better
Look up Cotinus Coggyria double purple (smokebush) It's a wonderful thing to behold
I am a great fan of wild flowers and also some weeds but they need careful management or they take over.

Wisteria, grows like a weed, as does honey suckle, roses don’t need much effort and love a hard prune, we have a lot of ferns they seem to pop up everywhere,

Another vote for hardy geraniums. I'll add geums, sedums, most shrubs (I've not killed a proper shrubby shrub yet ), helianthemum, nepeta, polemonium, many campanulas, centaurea, crocosmia, heuchera.

Most unkillable climber has been solanum crispum glasnevin, though climbing hydrangea comes a close (but extremely slow) second.

I might have to acquire some Japanese anemones.

Had a fab wisteria climbing over a trellis, until DH painted a little bit by accident with wood stain...it died.

Hydrangea always does well as long as you cut it back brutally over winter.

Alliums, foxglove, agapanthus and grasses do well with minimum effort.

Good evening,
I am criminally negligent to my plants.
A few years ago I planted Asiatic lily bulbs.
They have seriously spectacular, giant orange, red and yellow flowers. Every year there are more and more. Everyone who sees them comments on how lovely they are. They look very tropical but thrive in my dark, damp part of Scotland!

My beloved cowslips. Beautiful early spring cheer (and bee fodder), flower for ages. Can be divided and moved, seed easily, excellent ground cover and slug proof.

Things that have self seeded or spread around my garden are

Aquilegia
For-get-me -nots
Ferns
Borage
Honesty
Achillema molis (sp)
Wood anemones
Cow parsley
Lilly of the Valley

Also Choisya does really well and roses.

I wanted a modern planting theme and ended up with cottage garden. I want to bring more control to it but feel guilty because of the wildlife enjoying it.

Oh some great suggestions here and inspiration for next year! I thought wisteria was very slow growing?? I need a climber to frame a window but thought a rose would be sensible as I thought wisteria was super slow. Might need to reconsider my options.

Rhodedendron, azalea, erysium bowles mauve, persicaria, vibernum, pansies, campanula and lavender are no bother and come back better every year.

@SalaciousCrumble

Oh some great suggestions here and inspiration for next year! I thought wisteria was very slow growing?? I need a climber to frame a window but thought a rose would be sensible as I thought wisteria was super slow. Might need to reconsider my options.

I love Wisteria. I had one that grew and entwined itself on my Laburnham tree at my old house. They flowered together and the Wisteria was wonderful. Then for some reason which I never found out it died. Just like that. Apparently this can happen.

I agree about the solanum (potato plant). You can train it as a climber - we had one that grew in an arch shape over the front porch. We have a purple one but you can get white too.

Alchemilla mollis.

Cornus.

All spring bulbs.

My peonies have been split and moved around so much, but every year put on a good show.

Cosmos are so easy, chuck the seeds in and leave them.

Dicentra are brilliant - appear and give loads of flowers in spring, and then disappear to nothing in winter. No care required at all.

Aquilegia just find their way and fill the gaps.

Geranium sanguineum, a bit like dicentra, it disappears in winter then reappears and covers as much space as it can with hundreds of flowers.

My peonies and iris have been here since before we moved in 20 yrs ago, I never do anything to them but they are always reliable and lovely. Also a star jasmine, planted about 7 years ago now and always fabulous. I've occasionally snipped it to stop it climbing to.next door but other than that it looks after itself.

Wild garlic; mint; lavender; rosemary; gooseberries; loganberry. All do brilliantly each year with practically no input from us except watering in summer, some pruning & weeding the potted ones.

Grape hyacinths seem pretty indestructible.

I like sowing nasturtiums instead of using bedding plants. They always take and look lovely. You can also eat them.

Geraniums and Verbena - both gorgeous and long lasting.

We have a wisteria that had grown into our holly tree and was basically a tree in itself. The builders had to cut it from the trunk in November to get our fence in. It's growing with a vengeance from the stump now. My DH loved it but I was kind of glad to see it go. The canopy was so big that when the flowers died there were so many petals I couldn't fit them in our big green wheelie bin!

@MustardRose

Grape hyacinths seem pretty indestructible.

Yes and rather nice too. I''ve got them. They are one of those plants that remind you what time of year it is when they appear.