Beginner Gardening: What won't you plant in your garden?, 1 by CountryGardens

CountryGardens wrote:
I think some flowers work for some locations & not in others. Talking zones & states not single yards. I don't dislike any plants. Our house sits east-west. So we have a long wall on the north side. When we moved here there were "Ditch" lilies along that side. Same as your orange ones I'm sure. They need no maintenance, have never got out of bounds. Only thing that grows among them is an occasional Black Walnut.
Around here most dianthus will be perennial, & bloom twice a year. I have Arctic Fire & Neon Rose amongst the rocks, different annual varieties for borders, & some tall ones in back of some places.
Daylilies, Orential lilies, Asiatic lilies, Iris are all planted in any open spot. The flowers are great, can't get colors like that out of most things.
Petunias fill big voids here. A great variety of colors & types. Here they bloom from planting until hard freeze. Some are still full of color after some 10º nights.
I have a bunch of Lamb's Ears in the back of my pond area. They are staying put & give the spot the required look. I just let them bloom they cut the dead flowers off. Of course you must do that to make anything look good.
I raise 1000's of Gladiolus for selling as cut flowers. I can see why you would not want them in a flower garden. They only bloom once, the flower looks terrible after couple days. People do not cut them off either. Here they are a crop in the field.
I had some Rudbeckia in my pond area bed. They are terrible, send seeds everywhere, so you end up weeding them. They don't come out easy either when they are small.
Another, looks good-terrible plant is Malva. It also seeds everywhere, hence another weed.
Here's a little of our flowers this past summer.
Bernie