Which flowers don't you like?

[taffetacat]

.........I don't like:

Lilies, Amaranthus, Busy Lizzies, Astilbes , Fuchsia, Kniphofia, Nectaroscordum, Echinacea.......

Don't know why......

Petunias - horrible sticky flower heads for deadheading.

Anything in that murky pinkish-purple colour that all the stocks in my garden seem to come up in (grr).

Carnations. Especially the ones from petrol stations.

Taffeta, the orange ones I believe are pelargoniums, the blue are natural geraniums.

I have a soft spot for pelargoniums. They seem to survive even my dire houseplant skills.

The flowers I object to are:

those weird fluoresent green and orange dyed ones you get in forecourt bouquets.

begonias...eugh.

azaleas, all that kind of thing...are they ericaceous plants? Camellias, etc. There's somehting wrong about them.

lilies...what a pong. Disgusting...sad though as they look OK.

I'm not keen on sunflowers but mainly when they are plastered on tacky ornaments or just about anything...they kind of went mainstream and since then have never been the same. Bit like dolphins.

I used to abhor ceanothus because they reminded me of those evil liquorice allsorts. You know, the blue ones?

but have got over it a bit now and even planted one which has redeemed itself hugely by growing where nothing else would, due to cat poo.

Hebe is pointless.

You're all mad. Freesias are horrible, everything else mentioned on this thread is great.

Aquilega and Japenese anenome which are stalking me round every garden I own.

Grendelsmum, sorry dear but I think you will find that is conversely so

freesias are my absolute favourite.

(patronisingly)

Carnations/chrysanths, nasty.
Dislike pansies apart from the black ones.
Roses -horrible spiky things - get on my nerves esp white ones.

Pah.

As Christopher Lloyd said, good taste is 'asphxiating boredom'

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I love the image of ceanothus as evil blue licorish allsorts though.

Aquilegia are gorgeous!!!! We have zillions of mutant ones in our garden - new ones appear every year, I love guessing what we are going to get. I don't like the double ones though or the bicolour esp.

ROFL @ flightattendant - liquorice allsort ceanothus. We are on chalk so have quite a few hebes, and yes, azaleas only grow on acid soil so we have ours in pots of ericaceous soil. They lift my heart in May, love them.I'm with you on begonias though. Yuk.

Sounds lovely guessing the aquilegias.

Has anyone actually GOT any flowers atm? I just noticed a little swarm of snowdrops have come up...very sweet, nothing else yet though, just leaves.

...and how can anyone dislike roses?

I agree they look hideous when people cut them down to bare sticks, but I never trim mine...I just snap off the old buds when they are easily-snapped iyswim. Never prune, it might make a false 'better crop' but looks wrong. Poor roses

Lilies... both the look and the fragrance.

Saw some snowdrops and wild primrose on a bank near the river at the back of our house

we just have a few crocus but lots of enticing shoots and leaves.

I love roses but we have such awful soil here only some do OK, without a silly amount of TLC. I got a David Austin "Alnwick" one last year that I am very hopeful for though, have long coveted it.

Begonias are creepy - those horrible transluscent stems. Yuk. They make me feel sick.

Hate red roses a la Valentines day too. Love David Austin roses and surprisingly carnations for their kitschness.

Geraniums - they're pretty enough, but the smell: [boak]

Amaryllis - why oh why does my MIL keep giving me the bl@@dy things!? I don't have anywhere to put them other than the kitchen windowsill, which they then take over for most of the year until I can finally CHOP their leaves off. And the flowers are obscenely huge, totally unsuitable for indoors. And, just to make them utterly useless - they don't even have any fragrance. I wouldn't mind them as outdoor plants. But indoors? Urgh.

Any flower that houses an earwig. Shudder. Dahlias especially.

Marigolds, calendula astilbes, begonias, busy lizzies and crysanths.

....but peonies, my absolute favourite, always have earwigs lurking. I immerse mine totally underwater for a good hour before putting in a vase.

my other fave, sweet peas, normally have small bugs in their folds too.

taffetacat, I love peonies - when we were viewing the house we live in now we were walking around the garden we rounded a corner and the owner said 'this is the peoney bed'
I nearly passed out with delight!

ajumpeduppantryboy -

pale pink my fave

Just thought of one of the worst. poinsettia.

and what is that other thing people buy for you and it's just horrible? I know it has reddish flowers and kind of spiky leaves. They sold it in every florist in the 90s.

It was supposed to be 'posh'. Darn, forgotten the name!

Peonies are just delicious, and sweet peas.

Need to get hold of both really as we have neither but my intensive gardening days are over now...I did that before I had children.

Now it is more about elaborate climbing frames, chickens and mud.

ah...the mystery b*stard plant is... the Bougainvillea.

Just...why.

I didn't get the gardening thing until I had my first DC. For me it was (and still is) that old cliche of the dawning realisation of how cool creating new life is.

I love bougainvillea. In plants, (not girls clothes I hasten to add) I have a real pink weakness. I have a shocking pink bougainvillea and I love it.

I also dislike, however, Rudbeckia, Petunia and another I just don't get, even though I know they smell lovely , are Nicotiana. Its that long spindly trumpety thing when they are in bud. < shudder >