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

[DaringAquaViewer]

a fruit plant

Fake grass
Fairy lights everywhere
A fire pit
Fences of any colour except natural wood.
Shiny patio slabs
The dreaded hot tub

Any garden that is very built up, and i say that as someone who works in landscaping. The owners probably spend tens of thousands doing it and most of them would really put off potential buyers too.

A garden imo should be dominated with real plants. There are lots of ways to make this accessible for wheelchairs or low maintenance if needed. Don't just concrete over the thing!!

I have fake grass, paving, fake rattan furniture (including a sofa), a tinkly water feature and outdoor string lights... I'm a peasant 👋
We'll be watching the Eurovision next month on our projector screen in the back garden, with our neighbours, and serving drinks from the optics in our "shed" (haven't thought of a name for the "shed" yet. Must get onto that) The fire pit will probably be lit when it gets a bit chilly and the gas BBQ will be fired up.

Thank god I don't have neighbours like this. I like peace and quiet in my garden, not to be subjected to other people's choice of god awful TV programmes or films, or lights from their garden lit up like Blackpool illuminations, or stink from their firepit.

Thank god we don't have neighbours like you ! We are in a lovely village in Sussex with fab neighbours of all ages...... very peaceful but every now and again we all like to get together, light the "Blackpool illuminations" (probably a bit more Brighton pier to be honest) and have a bit of fun.
We're all a bit old for raves now but one of the neighbours 70th birthday celebration was close 😉

Plastic grass, plastic furniture, plastic plants, concrete, not a single trace of nature.

Oh and black or grey fence.

Yes, I had this when I moved to current house. Had as much dug out as possible but it still appears in the border. Next door let it grow on their side which doesn't help.

Bastard stuff!!😡

The squirrels eat the young soft shoots. In a pot, bamboo is quite useful because you can use it as a screen or cut canes. In the ground it is the devil.

Ha! A bunch of you would hate my garden 😁. I have shou sugi ban (Japanese charred timber) fencing which looks amazing as a backdrop to my palm trees, bananas and tropical plants.

Things you won’t see in my garden : any type of cottage style planting scheme, bedding plants, roses, buddleias, leylandi, railway sleepers, ornaments.

They mean shower curtains with garden prints on them not shower curtains for the garden, which was what I thought when I read the post

But it looks like people are predominantly hanging them in their gardens. Totally baffled.

@MereDintofPandiculation they are using them for their garden... hanging them on the fences, horses in stables, waterfalls, mountain scenes... all sorts just flapping around

Oh dear @Labraradabrador, @DazedAndKerfuddled , you're right, aren't you?

@MereDintofPandiculation i looked at the date that was published and i honestly didnt know it had been going on that long 😂

Dahlias, particularly the Pom Pom varieties. I detest earwigs.

Oh, and fake grass and the ubiquitous grey furniture . Sorry.

Pallet furniture

I have an irrational fear of amphibians so wouldn't have a pond . I am put off by gardens that are too staged by which I mean multiple Box baubles and tastefully painted wooden planters with a few architectural plants and no sign of a stray dandelion or foxglove. It might be that I am scared of the workload.I can't stand the obvious decking/ plastic grass / raised beds without abundant planting etc. I like a bit of natural disorder and greenery.

The pungent waft of cannabis🤢

Why?!

But they’re hung in gardens, and accessorised with fake strands of wisteria or trails of ivy for added effect.

For all the people moaning about snobs, not having something in my own garden doesn’t necessarily follow that I don’t like it, or don’t appreciate it in a different setting. Except plastic grass and plants. They are awful everywhere.

I have bamboo in pots dotted round the patios, we have about six bamboos, the black , the green and the gold, stuff, it’s all about ten to 12 foot high and looks wonderful . I don’t have any in the garden itself, ie in the ground, that would be foolish, but we have a large patio, and it’s filled with many different plants and trees of different sizes, from magnolias, to acers, to camellias, through to small flowering plants, and I really like the bamboo,both the look and the gentle swishy movement it makes in the breeze. It’s also relatively easy to manage and very frost resistant to be honest

The idea of a garden being an “outdoor room” as pushed by various telly makeover programmes has a lot to answer for.

Why? It’s an excellent use of a garden, we have a large patio as said, it is in a large garden, we sit out there often, a garden isn’t just for working in and peering at through your windows.