garden trends you wouldn't want in your own garden?

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a fruit plant

Outside TVs for 'movie night'. None of your neighbours want to share your choice of film over the fence, while trying to enjoy their evening.

https://cloveronline.co.uk/

This says it’s the ‘home of the garden shower curtain’ and actually stocks ‘garden shower curtain accessories’, like fake strands of wisteria to give your trompe l’oeil living wall curtain a hint of authenticity.

(I’m getting an education here.)

‘Wildlife gardening’.
Bees aren’t the only wildlife, though you’d never know it from the world of tv fantasy gardening.
If you want wildlife you’re going to have ants nests, moles undermining the lawn, rabbits decimating the vegetable patch, piles of pigeon droppings on the bench etc etc

I’m with you there, letting your garden go overgrown and declaring it’s because you want a wildlife haven, no it’s not your garden is still over grown. You can have plenty of wildlife and still manage your garden 😂

Hanging baskets with plastic flowers in them

Wind Chimes

Overgrown shrubs which have never been fed/dead headed or cut back in all of their life

That’s the garden equivalent of Hilda Ogdens ‘muriel’ from Coronation Street.

Your garden sounds fabulous.

I don't like fake grass at all, or too much paving.

A garden bar - literally cannot see the point of them. Just make your drink inside and carry it out to a normal chair if you want to sit outside? If you want cover, stay inside.
Fake grass. Hideous and bad for the environment.

For me, fake anything, so fake plants in pots/baskets, fake grass, plastic rattan, plastic sheds, plastic plant pots for that matter, inflatable hot tubs (not too keen on any other type either!), anything too starkly black or white (so gravel or paving etc), raised paved-edge ponds, a ‘home bar’…

I have a lot, it seems.

Hot tub.

That sounds like a wonderful garden to me 💚

There is clearly a divide between people who garden with plants and those who see it as an outside room and furnish it. That explains plastic grass etc.

oh i like the look of a mirror in the garden.
i didnt realise the birds flew into them

Having only just on this thread come across the shower curtains I actually think they are brilliant in a slightly naff way. Would be great if you had a small garden and wanted to trick the eye, especially if you put loads of real plants around it.

A pond or swimming pool.

My dog would never be out of it.

Those plastic shower curtains are batshit

We got rid of our three huge pampas grass in the front garden...pity coz it did cause quite a stir with the neighbours 😉

I like black fences, they look spectacular as a back drop for many plants. But you'll be relieved to hear that I have stone walls, so no chance of indulging in that trend. Have indulged in raised beds though, also have a big trampoline and a sort of palm tree - they are fairly normal here (seaside).

My dislikes aren't really trends though.
Excessively manicured gardens, which belong to same type of people who rant about wild flowers and no mow on public land. Their gardens are very alternate red and white geraniums in rows. Stripy perfect lawns which obviously aren't achieved without weed killer. Glyphosphate being another of my huge dislikes.

Fake grass, though I'm having a bit of a wibble there. We have a mossy concrete back yard that gets no sun, it looks awful. Fake grass couldn't look any worse.

The latter isn't 'gardening'. Maybe 'backyarding'?

We have all of the above. Plus deer wandering in.

Bought a heuchera plant to put in the back garden but hadn’t gotten around to planting it and it was still in a pot in the front by the garage and DH spotted a rabbit having a right go at it. It’s decimated pretty much!

Like others I hate fake grass and think it should be banned.

Hot tub
Bar
Rattan furniture
Fake Rattan furniture
Astroturf
excessive hard landscaping/no plants

Fake grass is the only real no no for my garden.

I'm always looking at rightmove and the amount of properties for sale that have massive areas of fake grass is increasing all the time. 🙁

My lawn might not be the best looking as I have dandelions, buttercups and daisies popping up but at least it has life in, on and under it.

@ErrolTheDragon I think so. Gardening is hard work and takes time. A lot of people do not have time so prefer an "outside room". Most of my neighbours have eliminated their gardens.

yes, i wouldnt want fake grass

Fake grass, in fact fake anything.
never heard before of shower curtains, or outside TVs - abominations!!!