What won't you plant in your garden?

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HollyAnnS Dover, PA(Zone 6b) Mar 13, 2007

Since you all dug up my old thread I will add one that I didn't think I would ever plant in my yard.
" Red Canna". Ric loves them but I didn't like them and wasn't interested in them at all. Then a co-worker gave me several large Red Canna Tubers and I've made some trades for several Yellow Canna a couple of different types. All of a sudden I'm thinking how really nice those Red Canna will look with the Yellow and I've all of a sudden started looking around for some other colors. Maybe some Orange and I'll need some different leaf variations for when they aren't blooming. I never would have thought that I would be planing a new flower bed around a flower that I never thought I liked. Canna Co-op here I come.

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JasperDale Long Beach, CA(Zone 10a) Mar 14, 2007

Anything with the species name of "vomitoria" ! LOL

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knolan Sugar Land, TX(Zone 9a) Mar 20, 2007

I'm with Tx_Turquoize - no mexican petunias....they pop up everywhere! No chinese tallow trees, they're invasive. No wisteria....my neighbors has ruined our fence and has runners popping up in my yard, no cypress vine...it ends up everywhere too! And no gladiolas, carnations or mums...they remind me of funerals.

JasperDale...anything with the name 'vomitoria' can take a 'hikexploria' away from my yard.

HollyAnn - I love Cannas myself but we have a severe problem with the leaf rollers here that leave them looking horrid. If you can grow them up there without that problem, they're beautiful and worth it.

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WUVIE Hulbert, OK(Zone 7a) Mar 24, 2007

Oh my, I forgot to mention the one thing that came to
mind when I saw this thread again.

http://davesgarden.com/pf/go/138/index.html

Lamb's ears. Maybe they were in a windy spot, maybe
they were in a wet spot, but these things - at least in my garden,
were a nasty, messy, ugly, sloppy, dirty mess. Sure, they looked
precious and soft to the touch in catalogs, but once they were here,
it was a different story.

They looked like a dirty old stuffed animal laying abandoned in
the mud. Nah, I don't want 'em. I'm sure they are wonderful in
someone else's garden, so I'll just admire them from afar.

:-) KM


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billyporter Nichols, IA(Zone 5a) Mar 29, 2007

I wrote this earlier,but now have the name and correct spelling. Rover Bellflower - Campanula rapidunculoides. It has beautiful purple blooms, but spreads all over!!

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laniebug Brownfield, ME(Zone 4b) Mar 29, 2007

Was a good idea at the time but reseeds everywhere "Sweet Annie" Artemisia annua

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