On Fri, 25 Jun 2004 21:08:30 +0100, "Just Molly"
wrote:

I hate lawns. Huge expanses of nothingness however well cared for they are.
I also hate neatly cut edges and borders with alternating blue and white
lobelia and red salvias.

Gnomes


--
Chris

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Just Molly wrote:
I hate lawns. Huge expanses of nothingness however well cared for
they are. I also hate neatly cut edges and borders with alternating
blue and white lobelia and red salvias.

other peoples cats!

pk

On Fri, 25 Jun 2004 21:08:30 +0100, "Just Molly"
wrote:

I hate lawns. Huge expanses of nothingness however well cared for they are.
I also hate neatly cut edges and borders with alternating blue and white
lobelia and red salvias.

Decking, mutilated trees and exessive statuary or other non-living
ornamentation - especially cheap nasty pastiche, small scale
imitations of the exesses of the wealthy are always tacky. Oh, and
anything 'fashionable' a garden should transcend passing fads. Notice
I haven't mentioned any plants - most have their place somewhere
though there's a lot I wouldn't choose to grow. I reserve the right
to dislike or even hate the way they get used sometimes though.
Rod

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In message Nw0Dc.68$6r.49@newsfe2-win, Just Molly
writes
I hate lawns.

I've just been pulling off yet more plain branches from a supposedly
variegated shrub which as soon as it left the nursery decided it was
time to revert to its true colour. ((


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On 26/6/04 4:46, in article ,
"Dave Poole" wrote:

On Fri, 25 Jun 2004 23:56:44 +0100, Kay
wrote:

I don't think I think 'how awful' or 'naff' or 'are they colour blind'
- it's just that that style of gardening leaves me cold.

Yes! Especially red/blue/yellow combinations!

I also really don't like variegated leaved plants, especially variegated
with yellow or bright green, with cerise or purple or pink flowers - or
almost with any flowers except white ones.

Spotted laurel

Any shrubby Potentilla, any Hypericum apart from 'Rowallane', shrubby
Cotoneasters (esp. and including horizontalis and the myriad,
desperately dull forms of microphyllus), hybrid tea roses and Salix
caprea 'Pendula' (Kilmarnock willow). Oh and I forgot, add to this,
large exhibition type Dahlias & Chrysanths and the big flowered (Edna
Everage type!) gladioli.


Forsythia, bizzy lizzies, annual salvias, Calceolarias, 'cute' garden
ornaments, ditto the Chrysanths and EE glads, (though I have a fondness for
some Dahlias) Cupressus leylandii, not mad about marigolds, monkey puzzle
trees.
--
Sacha
www.hillhousenursery.co.uk
South Devon
(remove the weeds after garden to email me)

In message , Sacha
writes
On 26/6/04 4:46, in article ,
"Dave Poole" wrote:

On Fri, 25 Jun 2004 23:56:44 +0100, Kay
wrote:

I don't think I think 'how awful' or 'naff' or 'are they colour blind'
- it's just that that style of gardening leaves me cold.

Yes! Especially red/blue/yellow combinations!

I also really don't like variegated leaved plants, especially variegated
with yellow or bright green, with cerise or purple or pink flowers - or
almost with any flowers except white ones.

Spotted laurel

Any shrubby Potentilla, any Hypericum apart from 'Rowallane', shrubby
Cotoneasters (esp. and including horizontalis and the myriad,
desperately dull forms of microphyllus), hybrid tea roses and Salix
caprea 'Pendula' (Kilmarnock willow). Oh and I forgot, add to this,
large exhibition type Dahlias & Chrysanths and the big flowered (Edna
Everage type!) gladioli.


Forsythia, bizzy lizzies, annual salvias, Calceolarias, 'cute' garden
ornaments, ditto the Chrysanths and EE glads, (though I have a fondness for
some Dahlias) Cupressus leylandii, not mad about marigolds, monkey puzzle
trees.

Cannas - I'm not sure why ...
--
Klara, Gatwick basin

On Fri, 25 Jun 2004 21:08:30 +0100, Just Molly wrote:

I hate lawns. Huge expanses of nothingness however well cared for they are.
I also hate neatly cut edges and borders with alternating blue and white
lobelia and red salvias.

An old workmate of mine had loads of plastic flowers in his back
garden.

Yuk! :O}

--
Ian Cox
Sutton-in-Ashfield
icq 116510696
Remove my hat to email me.

In message , Ian Cox
writes
An old workmate of mine had loads of plastic flowers in his back
garden.

Yuk! :O}

Didn't Richard Nixon 'improve' the White House garden with the addition
of lots of plastic rhododendrons?

--
Klara, Gatwick basin

In article , Dave Poole
writes

Any shrubby Potentilla, any Hypericum apart from 'Rowallane', shrubby
Cotoneasters (esp. and including horizontalis and the myriad,
desperately dull forms of microphyllus), hybrid tea roses and Salix
caprea 'Pendula' (Kilmarnock willow). Oh and I forgot, add to this,
large exhibition type Dahlias & Chrysanths and the big flowered (Edna
Everage type!) gladioli.

Now your style of gardening is very different from mine, and yet I share
all those hates!

I wonder whether in fact we're doing the same thing but with different
palettes - you are creating a jungle paradise with tender plants and
choice species, I am creating a jungle (less of the paradise) with
native plants and with species that flourish in shady wet clay and slug
heaven.
--
Kay
"Do not insult the crocodile until you have crossed the river"

In article , Brian Watson
writes

"Just Molly" wrote in message
news:Nw0Dc.68$6r.49@newsfe2-win...
I hate lawns. Huge expanses of nothingness however well cared for they
are.
I also hate neatly cut edges and borders with alternating blue and white
lobelia and red salvias.

I have taken up all my lawns as I no longer see the point of growing work.

I have an intense antipathy to ivy, but am winning on that front at the
moment, and bindweed comes a close second.

Oh, bindweed's OK, especially if you are lucky enough to have the one
with big pink striped flowers instead of white. And it's very satisfying
to pull out whole tangled ropes of it.

The little scented pink bindweed is lovely.
--
Kay
"Do not insult the crocodile until you have crossed the river"

Kay wrote:

Now your style of gardening is very different from mine, and yet I share
all those hates!

I wonder whether in fact we're doing the same thing but with different
palettes - you are creating a jungle paradise with tender plants and
choice species, I am creating a jungle (less of the paradise) with
native plants and with species that flourish in shady wet clay and slug
heaven.

I suspect we are doing much the same Kay. I love the jungly, lush,
slightly unkempt look where bold and interesting, 'in-yer-face' plants
reign supreme. I loathe prissy, bitty plantings and typical municipal
schemes (muncipal screams - a term I inadvertently coined after a few
pints!) using ubiquitous plants. Ironically, I also like very well
executed formal gardens, but they have to have the 'tropical look' to
get my wholehearted approval.

To give you an idea; I yearn to have a garden where I can have a very
long (120ft. plus, wide, canal-like pool, set within an avenue of
tall, trunked palms such as Phoenix or even Rhopalostylis, these
underplanted just one variety/species of Hedychium or Canna. The
whole would be surrounded with perfect, tightly mown turf, but at the
edges, informal mixed herbaceous-style borders stuffed with all manner
of exotics. The climate in the far south can support this, but cost
of a property in the right spot with the right amount of land would be
desperately prohibitive.

Dave Poole
Torquay, Coastal South Devon UK
Winter min -2°C. Summer max 34°C.
Growing season: March - November
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"Just Molly" wrote in message
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I hate lawns. Huge expanses of nothingness however well cared for
they are.
I also hate neatly cut edges and borders with alternating blue and
white
lobelia and red salvias.

Agreed. Add decking, fencing painted in saturated colours and gaily
painted baubles on sticks

Franz

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"Just Molly" wrote in message
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: I hate lawns. Huge expanses of nothingness however well cared for they
are.
: I also hate neatly cut edges and borders with alternating blue and
white
: lobelia and red salvias.
:
Carrot fly, cabbage root fly and cabbage club root disease


Hmmm, this isn't working very well is it? I didn't really mean what
garden
pests don't you like as nobody likes garden pests. I *meant* what garden
features or plant do you dislike. You know how you drive past a garden and
think, oh that's just *awful* to look at. or bloody hell how naff, or My
god
are they *colour blind*!


You said what are your garden PET (my emphasis) hates
:-)

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I have a small garden so my pet hate is bare soil!

Sue

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Plastic. Including white and "terracotta" plastic planters, brightly
coloured plastic toys, plastic furniture and fences, plastic plates on
the plastic table, plastic mini-marquees. Plastic raincovers on plastic
or wooden garden furniture. Plastic herons, plastic gnomes, plastic
bunnies, plastic foxes, plastic ducks, plastic ponds with the plastic
showing...

Janet.