What easy plant is your nemesis?

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

Sweet peas

I am, however, a green goddess when it comes to mint.

I'm glad it's not just me with lavender. Like a poster upthread, I was beginning to take it personally.

Autumn sown and overwintered sweet peas have been much more successful for me. Do it every year now!

I’ve killed a holly and two buddleia.

Coleus - it simply won't grow. Gets decimated by snails and slugs
Hostas, easy...I assume the coleus are self sacrificing

Grass! I have filled in patches in the lawn that were dug out by rabbits. Top soil, seeds down, water regularly but no sign whatsoever of life.

In the gravel driveway and flower beds it’s a different story- the grass is springing up everywhere.

Viburnum - I’ve lost 2 fancy varieties, but also 2 tinus. All fairly large specimens that were established a couple of years. They looked like they were doing well and then died all of a sudden for no obvious reason. Have one left!

Can I add an inside plant? Aloe Vera- I’ve killed about 6 in a row recently.

That's quite the achievement.

Omg!! I was just to write Lavender!!!!! Just like you 🤣🤣.
It actually started off amazing this summer but both are looking perilously bad right now...

Wow. I had one which had suffered benign neglect for about 18mo before going into a moving box for 8 months and it still didn't die!

I can't keep dahlia alive, at all; ever. I can't grow them from tuber and I also kill the expensive ones from the garden centre. I think it's because I'm not great at watering...

Mint escaped a pot in my garden and is now growing like a weed 🙄 bloody runners go off everywhere.

Lupins and delphiniums get eaten by slugs every single time in my garden.

Lavender. Bloody bastard thrives everywhere except my garden.

Also daffs. Every year I plant them. Every year I get leaves.

Inside my personal best for offing a poinsettia was 36 hours.

How much are you watering them? Although they tolerate dry conditions, they're happiest with regular watering. In the summer, I water them most days.

I could be tempted to try this

They do need some protection from the elements. I have overwintered them in a small (well tethered!) plastic zippy greenhouse, and also in a cold frame. With slug/snail deterrent when they are small. Always sow around late August BH.

sweetpeas from seed. I get lovely plants but no flowers, I do get flowers if I buy seedling though.

ripe strawberries the birds always get up earlier than I do! I really should get a net

Same here. It makes me so cross.

Carrots, leeks and nasturtiums are frustratingly unwilling to thrive in my garden. I used to grow nasturtiums with ease and success as a child, now - they almost always fail.

If daffs are coming up blind it because you're not planting them deep enough I think.

Verbena bonariensis - my friend has it coming up literally all over her garden, the last four years she has potted up a load of them for me and I've killed them all 😅

Buddleia. Completely fails to flower. Whhhhyyyyy????

my mum got a tip to wrap copper tape around your pot and the slugs won't slime their way over to the plant... and it worked!! you do have to periodically refresh the tape as once it gets dirty/tarnished the slugs don't mind it any more. Good luck!!! (other people's perfect Hostas have always been hot topic in this family!)

My hostas suffer from slugs too. I have placed coffee grounds around them and also a section of a plastic bottle. Not sure if it's worked but it's raining now so I'll find out in the morning.