What easy plant is your nemesis?

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

Lupins just get demolished by snails, it's sad as they're so beautiful.

I CAN grow sweet peas, but they’re not GREAT. Rocket way too rockety here, it’s nice for a few weeks in April though and at least it means there are flowers out early…

coriander I don’t count as easy but it can absolutely do one. I’ll continue buying it for a pound in the grocers thanks

Courgettes. I’ve never had one grow longer than my little finger. However, I’ve grown cauliflowers for the first time this year and I can’t believe how enormous they are!
I’m normally great with lupins, I know they’re fairly short lived so I propagate some every year. This year though, every single one has died. No idea why.

Sweet peas hate me- I’ve been trying for years and they just won’t take!

Same goes anything that’s meant to climb (side eyes clematis and passion flowers….)

Buddleia !

It grows out of wall along railway tracks , cracks in the wall that you could scarely put a credit card in and bingo grows like a weed.

But in my garden....one has died
A new one , suposed to be a Black Knight is magenta pink .
<sigh>

I planted a batch (I think 1-12) in loo roll tubes in the mini greenhouse . Every one germinated .
Every one except one brave little plant got eaten by slugs .

I planted it with a plastic bottle cover to protect it ( did the same with my new clematis as it was being eaten ) .
They've recovered quite well, just need to see how they go .

@70isaLimitNotaTarget I’ve killed two buddleia too. Both indigo dwarf versions, I honestly don’t know how it happened.

Hydrangeas. Wtf. They HATE me.

Lavender and Lupins...have given up on the Lupins but just about to give the Lavender one more time 🙄

Why are delphiniums so hard?

HOW?!

Mind you, I can't grow fricking Nasturtiums.

Holly is impossible to kill. I mean to people actually buy a holly bush to plant? Or do they just plant themselves.

There was a massive holly tree in the apex of where 4 gardens met in our garden. All 4 neighbours were stood there discussing their hated of Holly when it was removed!

Only enough, tomatoes this year. Everything else has been wild - radishes, potatoes, rocket, sugar snaps, beetroot, broadband all flourished.

Broadband sounds an interesting vegetable. Part of the World Wide Veg?

🤣🤣🤣🤣. Bloody autocorrect 🙄. BroadBEANS. BEANS 😂

I planted a daphne and the snails came from all over the garden and nearly stripped it of leaves in a couple of nights.
Planted lots of radishes and I had four that were vaguely round the rest were pathetic slightly red spindly roots. They were like that last year and the year before. Don’t know what am doing wrong. I do water them when it’s dry.
Nasturtiums go yellow and die pretty quick.
Japanese anemones though grow all over the place with no encouragement.

Holly is impossible to kill. I mean to people actually buy a holly bush to plant? Or do they just plant themselves. Yes, if you want a particular variety, darker blue-green leaves, gold or silver variegation, yellow or orange berries, or even just to be sure you have a female.

My friend once had a cull against snails and slugs. Following year made no difference. But the year after that there was a huge reduction in slime related creatures.

Lavender for me, it hates me!!

The same with me, although this year one has grown on the drive very near to my car tyres. I live in hope of it seeding next year.

I love hollyhocks but they never grow that much in my garden, there’s one really tall one that came up from last year but the rest are tiny. I see plenty of triffid size ones around here though, smugly growing out of central reservations. Also anemones and cosmos seem to wither and die.

Mind you lupins and delphiniums have been great this year for me.

Me too!! Tormented by neighbour in front having beautiful lavender but mine, one year later, just looks raggedy.

You need to prune it quite hard each winter. Not beyond the green growth, but more than chopping the dead flowers off

@MereDintofPandiculation done that! Must be the type of soil because it gets lots of sun.

My cauliflowers(white, purple, orange and green) are huge and my beans are plentiful. Carrots grow large and tasty, but I can't grow a spring onion to save myself. Beetroot fares about as well as the spring onions.
Today I'm having a cull of my borders, and removing anything that is sulking or refusing to grow/flower. It will all be potted up and pampered for a while, then if it doesn't perk up it will be shredded or composted. On my list so far are 3 hydrangeas, a variegated grisellinia (plain kind are romping away elsewhere in the garden) and three tamarix, which were sold to me as being almost indestructible.