Plants that have gone out of fashion….and are due a revival

[BarkingUpTheWrongRoseBush]

Inspired by another thread about Kerri-a Japonica.

I also wonder about plants going out of fashion.

I love a lilac and remember them everywhere in my childhood …I’m planting a new dwarf one in my front garden. Also laburnum, they are everywhere but I don’t see new ones.

Penstemon?

They might be very popular for all I know, I haven't bought them in years. My family all have them, and pass around cuttings as needed!

I dont find Welsh poppies ready to pull up. They always snap off! Especially when they are growing up through other hings or in the middle of clumps of bulbs... Sigh.
Im just waiting to see what colour my cheap bag of assorted gladioli turn out to be, after my anti yellow diatribe on here they are probably going to turn out to be all red yellow and orange.
I actually have some yellow crocosmias, but they are a softish yellow not YELLOW and work OK with my late season colour scheme when most of my white/pale flowers are finished and is mostly stronger colours left.

Ah, I've got a daisy grubber thingy for any stubborn ones but I get them while they're small

Hollyhocks you don't often see - I'm in wet Scotland, I think I did try once and failed. They always appeared in my childhood books eg Rupert bear, fairytale pictures of country cottages, they grew outside them,

I'm in rural Sussex and I've seen some lovely hollyhocks this year @GreatAuntEmily. I've seen Penstemon in garden centres but have resisted. I have now reached the stage when I only go to garden centres/nurseries to buy specific things and they haven't been on my list, maybe next year when we will be moving things around again (Bowles mauve getting too leggy despite cutting back etc).

I think chrysanthemum will be next in line for a revival.

I lived in Dorset for a while - so on chalk and warm. Very different gardening from the wet clay in the North West where I am now. Maritime climate so not frosty - just very wet!

Hollyhocks were such a beautiful sight in Dorset and in Norfolk too.

I'm trying them here next year under the eaves of the house for shelter...

I've had a mad year buying things as brand new garden which was a blank canvas. Trying really hard to sit on my hands now and not buy anything else as the garden looks exactly like what it is - lots of plants thrown in by a gardener who previously only had a back yard and pots to play with!

All the plants! All the colours!

The new back garden is going to be more restrained....yeah right....

Sounds quite wonderful, OP
Winter is a good time for planning, once everything has died back and you can see the bare bones. But I'll bet you a pound you'll be buying more soon, you've got the bug!

Mere I can't tell you the name of the little bindweed, it just appears modestly every year! I said I liked ipomea, I threw some seeds about once and nothing happened but I meant plumbago auriculata, which I tried growing round our back door, to no avail. The hardier ceratostigma plumbago is very happy here though.

@VenusClapTrap

Conifers. Deeply unfashionable, but in the right place, a conifer allowed to take its natural form and grow to its full height is a thing of majestic beauty. I love to go to pinetums for winter walks, and the dc love touching the varied leaves - some spiky, some fluffy, often unexpected textures. All sizes and shapes, from squat and architectural to wafty and elegant. They disappear into the background in summer, but in winter where would we be without evergreens?

My favourites of all are the blue ones. There is a wonderful garden just outside Paris, Jardin Albert Kahn, which has an area called the Blue Forest, made up of blue pine trees. It’s absolutely magical. I totally recommend a visit if you’re in the area.

Oh yes, I so agree. Natural conifers are gorgeous.

ppeatfruit if you like the colour of plumbago, have you tried Sollya.? Very underrated, should be much better known than it is

barking I think you can be either a gardener or a plantsman, not both. Either design or plant choice has to be limited, it’s up to individual preference which.

Mere Thanks for that recommendation, it looks lovely in my RHS book, (I hadn't noticed it before) does it have perfume? Sadly it will be too tender for this garden, I don't have a green house either heated or not. Also very little time to 'nurse' up plants. DH buys me pot plants for b\days etc. and they are generally unsuccessful here.

There's a bougainvillea between life and death on the terrace now

Yes SirVixo

<strong>Venus</strong> is so right about conifers. Every tree really.

I don't think Sollya has a perfume, but I have a very bad sense of smell - Sarcococca is lost on me. I used to have it in an unheated porch in Yorkshire (I lost it because it was sharing a pot with a jasmine and got crowded out), and I think I read in an RHS magazine article that it could survive outdoors in the proverbial warm spot on a south facing wall.

Venus is so right about conifers. Every tree really. And of course trees are doing their carbon capture thing only when they're still alive - bits you chop off release their carbon.

That's why peat is so good for carbon capture - the sphagnum mosses that create peat simply keep growing upwards, burying their dead parts rather than releasing the carbon. So stopping using peat in the garden contributes to your personal contribution to reducing climate change.

Yes that's true about peat of course, I wish that the Fr.\Dutch florists were aware (and took note, and stopped using the effing stuff).

That bougainvilliea I mentioned is in peat, I'm annoyed that dh bought it for me, on line of course