What can u not grow in ur garden.

[Paranoidandroidmarvin]

I cannot get any clematis to stay alive in my garden at all. Had three gone this year.

but my lavender that I planted this summer is enormous!!!!

Vegetables. Every time I plant the bloody dog digs them up. Apparently according to dog you can grow dentastix plants. Will say though baby carrots are cute. Dog breaches every defence.

Other plants I can't grow is fuchsia & passion fruits flowers. Flower, wilt, die

Mint.

At first we planted it in a little pot so it didn't take over the whole garden. Hollow laugh.

Also clematis. Tried loads and making sure the roots are in shade/cool etc but they get a spurt of growth on and then die back

I've got two massive clementis.

I can't grow japonica, lupins, and sunflowers.

Ceanothus, delphiniums.

Delphiniums, I should just give up…but I’m sort of obsessed now….

Roses. And hydrangeas. I think my soil doesn't drain too well.

Echinacea. Might as well bury £5 notes. And Mexican Flebane, which infests the parking area at the front, but absolutely will not take in the identical conditions in my garden where I want it.

Sweet peas. They take ages to get going, refuse to climb the support without yards of string to hold them up, throw out a few half-hearted flowers, go yellow and die. They were one of my Mum's favourite flowers so every year I try and every year I am disappointed.

Peony. I've had two for three years. They come up, grow about 10 inches and then suffer and die all summer.

Mint hasn't taken very well here either.

Lupins and dahlias get eaten instantly. Echinicea dies. Poppies get eaten. In fact most things get eaten. Have success with clematis, roses, lavender, dicentra and physalis.

Sunflowers, and any other slug bait.

anything that requires a sunny position

Japonicas and sweet peas - probably my two favourite plants but they always die on me. My MIL on the other hand - now she can grow sweet peas. She's cut them and brings them round as she knows how much I love them.

My cat objects to red lupins. No idea why. Digs them out as soon as I plant them, then craps on them! Pink ones, no problem.
Delphiniums also die rapidly - the leaves seem to get eaten overnight. Possibly by the slugs, in revenge for being thwarted by the garlic spray that stops them eating my hosta collection…

@squashyhat i meant to add sweet peas. I have done three lots this year in different parts of the garden and they have all failed. I was doing it for my Nan and I’m gutted I can’t give her any flowers. Not trying again next year.

Fuschias. We have one in the ground and two in pots (different sizes, different materials). All are dead. At our old house we had a fuschia so enormous that small children could hide in it. No idea what we're doing wrong this time.

Also lavender. I have 5 plants, all planted in supposedly perfect conditions. 4 are dead and 1 is receiving palliative care.

Another echinacea killer here. Also lilies (though crocosmia and other irises grow fine).
Echinops will not grow but teasels are all over the place.
Carrots are always stunted and tiny but parsnips as long as your arm.
I thought I'd killed my clematis when I cut the main stem 4 inches from the ground when cutting back a nearby fern this spring, but it's already back to taller than me.

Japonica and delphinium get eaten immediately.

Lilies, tulips and foxgloves do amazingly.

Very few of my Aliums came up this year.

It’s just one big experiment that I don’t really understand 🤷‍♀️

Climbing/rambling roses, it's just a handy meal for possums, who walk along the fence, scoffing, and I don't like standard roses.

Coastal location so there's more we can't grow than can. Not only do we have sand instead of soil, salt air and vicious sea winds we have bloody indestructible bastard snails that eat everything and thrive despite sprays, pellets and enough copper tape to to make it surprising that my house doesn't function as a huge battery

This year, any kind of veg. Peas, beans, butternut squash, broccoli - all either eaten or shrivelled up and died in the hot weather. Only the tomatoes are thriving!

Does grass count? 😂honestly, dandelions, moss, clover, EASY, grass? No!

I have awesome sweat peas though, me and the old boy next door trade the pods each year to make sure we get a good batch the next year. I can't even stand the smell of them too

Courgettes. They're so easy, I'm told. Hah! Can't even get the buggers to germinate most years.

My tomatoes are lovely, though.

I'm growing my best tomato crop ever this year, it's usually so damp here that mildew turns the plants into some kind of gothic horror of grey stems and black fruit.
The dry weather has actually meant a bumper crop of tomatoes, and the rain this week has made them huge, now a bit of sun will ripen them nicely.

Sweet peas. I've tried so many times. I've given up trying now.