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

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a fruit plant

Fake grass
plastic curtains hung up
gravel which hasn’t been put down properly and now has weeds growing through it

i do have a plastic ratten table and chairs but in my defence they were given to me when someone was moving house and I just haven’t got round to buying something nicer though I did see a lovely set yesterday I might buy!

Expensive stuff that’s rusty.

plastic grass (grassphalt)
plastic plants in general.
tarmaced/paved gardens.

Fake grass, wind chimes and bloody bamboo are no-gos in my garden. Couldn't really get worked up about anything else.
I wouldn't have a pond because frogs give me the creeps.

My garden has a lot of things posters here wouldn't like - I have a bumpy, uneven lawn with nothing else planted in. A patio that's a bit scruffy, solar lights strung along the fence, a shed that I've painted blue, fake rattan furniture, pots with plants in various states dotted around. I'm still learning how to grow things and the aim to have something with colour in at least some of the pots all year around.

Around here most people have some life in their gardens and the only ones that make me trip sad are ones that are fully paved or with a fake lawn and no sign of life at all.

Fake grass, decking, hot tub.

Decking.

Neighbours both sides of me took theirs out because of rats and mice.

oh yes, dislike decking because they are rat hotels.

Roses everywhere although I do have a climbing one I like. Such a lot of faff and an ugly shrub for 2 weeks of blooms that then look mouldy in the august rain

I don't have a garden currently, but am looking at houses in an area that I might want to buy.

I hate fully paved over front gardens. Water runs off them contributing to flooding. At least grass half your front drive, please.

I've seen fully paved back gardens too. 😱 No!

Grey. Flipping everywhere.

Yy plastic grass. Terrible for the environment.

Those big chairs with the cushions on. Nope.

Gardens that look too sterile.

I am in favour of the trend to encourage more bees, butterflies etc. A bit messy, chaotic, but bug friendly. And LOTS of colour.

I agree. I’ve just planted some climbing roses along a long driveway wall where they can do their own thing, but I don’t much care for shrub roses. Maybe in a border with lots of other stuff, but not solo.

I hate Red Robin hedges, not keen on the whole cottage-style planting thing either - looks like someone went a bit crazy at the garden centre. Hate daffodils and tulips. Narrow borders - island planting in a lawn. I'd get rid of all of it.

There is no way to lay gravel to stop the weeds - even if you put a membrane down eventually the weeds will grow on top of it - there is no way to avoid weeding.

there are varieties that bloom from may- october. but still they need to be inderplanted with something else so they are not as boring the rest of the time.

I also hate conifers despite their growing fashionableness. I do like grasses though

This is a garden trend???

leylandii or other conifer hedge
a single conifer can be very nice though.

@AmaryllisChorus yes, people like flappy waterfalls and scenic views apparently

I think lots of people see gardening as outdoor housework and seek to minimise it as much as possible.

Weather -beaten furniture and umbrellas that have been left out all winter to go green.

Tinkling water features (making me need a wee and using electricity! Why?).
Grey fences that need repainting annually to replicate a suburban battleship.

Fake grass, fake plants, a large garden entirely paved

The shower curtain website - WTAF?? I'm very pleased to say I have never heard of this or seen it before!

The whole grey rattan furniture had passed me by too, but I've just taken a look at Rightmove and see what you all mean. Every "modern" house seems to have it! I'm not totally averse to it though - it's a fad that will pass and it's just something to sit on.

I confess we do have the brown "fake" rattan furniture. We used to have iron furniture but it was really uncomfortable and needed too much upkeep. Wood is even worse. I want to be able to enjoy sitting in my garden, not spending weekends sanding/scrubbing it all off and resealing it. I take a hoover and dustpan and brush to ours occasionally and that's it. I'd much rather spend my time tending pretty plants.

Can't stand astroturf though. I hate that we have so many ants nests in our lawn, but love the other wildlife that our garden attracts. Green woodpeckers love an ants nest for example.

One of our neighbours is meticulous with his lawn to the point that it looks like one of the greens at a golf course. Unfortunately he keeps it so short that one hot and sunny day and the thing is burnt to a crisp. Then he asks how ours is still green considering we don't water it. No, we don't water it, but we don't scalp it within an inch of its life either!

Oh, and yes, decking. We couldn't get ours out quick enough when we bought the house. It was deathtrap slippery and housed numerous (thankfully dead and empty) rats nests underneath it. Thankfully the previous owners hadn't dug up the perfect patio underneath it when they installed it.

A “bar” made from a shed. Usually given a stupid name as though it’s a real pub.

Just no.

Garden ornaments, when we moved into our last house there were loads of stone animal statues, they soon went.

@Craicbaby “I’m pro-frog” has tickled me 🤣🤣