Posted: 09/09/2015 at 20:42
Roses.......at least when not grown well. Most I see are covered in disease or mishapen or not pruned correctly.
Dont like aquilegias either.
but heathers,,hosta, are great. I grow a few winter varieties.....coloured foliage all year round and winter flowers. The opposite of those sores....oops! a spontaneous anagram of roses.
Dont like annuals in the garden....they have no place in fhe perennial border. hemerocallis not a favourite either except for pale yellow and variegated varieties. Large flowered begonias are a big turn off too. Bamboos and banana plants (they always look tatty and battered) and many euphorbias are weedy. Yuccas, pampas and coleus ....noooooo
like foliage, grasses, tender perennials....too many to list.
my tastes have changed though...kniphofias, for example. were always ugly to me but plant them where their foliage is obscured by other plants and they are quite stunning. So learning how to best grow plants can determine if they are good looking or ugly.
any plant not grown well.....for exqmple, if hostas cannot be grown without slug damage why grow them? Shrubs not flowering well because of incorrect pruning look awful.