What easy plant is your nemesis?

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It used to be cosmos for me, but finally cracked it last year.

Poppies. I’ve even bought mature plants for them to keel over within weeks.

Rhubarb. I have planted 6 crowns, and in about 4 years I've had 1 cake's worth from 1 plant. 2 plants were pinched by the squirrels all together and the other 3 are like pencils :-( plus the snails nibble any stems that do grow.

@Babdoc Yes, I’ve had pretty good results with the garlic brew this year. I made mine by steeping crushed garlic bulbs in boiling water. The last time I made it (by simmering on the stove) I had complaints from domestic management about the stink, so this was my compromise option, done outdoors. The canna and dahlias have been munched far less than usual, but the snails are still abseiling into the hanging basket to devour my only hosta.

Same

Nasturtiums. First year they were doing quite well although only 'salmon baby' had good rates of germination then devastated by blackfly. Second year, fresh seed barely any grew, a few poxy leaves and no flowers.

Courgettes. I can grow and have great crops of everything else, but not courgettes. They hate me.

Fatsia. Dead as a doornail.

Gladioli. I've never had one flower no matter where I've planted them or what advice I've followed.

Cosmos for me. I take it very personally.

I also have bad luck with lavender even though all my neighbours manage to grow masses of it.

MInt doesn't really like pots...but I have managed it successfully in a really big pot it gets congested quickly so you have to divide it fairly regularly and feed it well.

I find mint does fine in a pot but fails quickly if I submerge the pot in the flowerbed, however good the drainage is.

Carrots. I buy fresh seed from various reputable places year after year and sow generously but the blasted things just never appear.

Rosemary, I've killed so many (in pots). I have some current survivors but they don't really grow. :(

Try repotting into new soil regularly, at least every year.

You're so lucky!

The wild sort usually die down after flowering, they're basically biennials.

Delphiniums. They grow beautifully in neighbour's gardens but just give up trying in mine.

Same for any of the non-woody salvias. I see all the nemorosa and amistads looking so beautiful and get suckered into buying every year but they are munched, dried out and turn to sticks the second I take my eye off them.

I've got lupins but that was a case of numbers - sowed 2 packets of seed and managed to get 2 plants to a size where they could fend off the slugs a few years ago!

Rosemary - that's another one. All my neighbours have it growing like topsy. I've tried so many times and it just withers and dies. I've finally got one established that I'm hoping will grow by the path and turn into a small shrub.

Courgettes.
Spinach (Is spinach meant to be easy? Mine always, always bolts, but I keep trying because I love baby spinach.)

I think I might have killed my mint. I thought that was biologically impossible 😳

Bleeding heart/Dicentra.

We have bought three different colours several times and all have sat their and turned sickly very quickly and then died!

We have put them in different areas and they have still failed.

The nearest I could get and which does fantastic is Himalayan Honeysuckle.

Hollyhocks

Japanese Anemones! I’m still hoping one that I got in the bargain basement of the local garden centre last autumn will take. It has three green leaves now at least 🙄

Lavender (in pots). Realises it's with me and quietly gives up.

Another vote for mint!