Das Offensichtliche sind Kunstrasen, also werde ich mich für Photinia Red Robin entscheiden.
Für mich ist es die Vorstellung eines langweiligen Menschen von einer interessanten Pflanze, und ich habe keine Ahnung, warum sie so beliebt ist. Dieses billige Lippenstiftrot kommt nur einen Teil des Jahres vor und ist nicht einmal heimisch. Warum also nicht etwas weniger Vanille wählen?
Wie auch immer, was magst du nicht?
Von: ThrowawayTrainTAC
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Olive trees, especially when kept in a desolate fake grass hellscape.
Not a specific plant as such but when all the supermarkets get in the bedding plants. The influx of gardens with the exact same bedding plants in the exact same configuration they’re sold.
Bright white gravel/slate chippings.
My neighbour had this for their driveway and a few months later it looks flipping awful as shows all the weeds and leaves etc
Obviously fake grass.
I think it’s o.k. as a plant, but it’s just too commonly seen in some areas, especially new builds, to make it interesting. Mostly likely as it’s easy to grow in clay soils and hardy.
One good feature about it is it’s branches burn well.
My choice for fashionable garden choices I dislike are fences made with concrete fence posts and concrete gravel boards. Yes I appreciate that they are not going to rot, and we see them everywhere, so we have got used to them, but they are objectively pretty ugly, and make your garden look a bit urban naff and generic. There are much better options out there. Painted, they look marginly better.
Option 2, is fully block-paved or tarmaced front gardens. So many reasons why these are bad.
Salvia Hot Lips makes me unexpectedly sneery. (Unexpectedly because I usually love weird stuff and I also adore salvia. I just find Hot Lips so… vulgar.) Also really hate fatsia japonica for no earthly reason – new garden has four enormous ones and they look so out of place.
I ripped out the red robin in my front garden planted by the previous owner. Replacing with lilac and roses. The red robin looked messy so often, had biological flowers but IMO flowers mean petals and scent, and overall it just didn’t have enough pizazz for the space it took.
I dislike seeing mulch. I feel like the plants should cover everything in the border and you should only see mulch briefly as the herbaceous plants take a break.
The [Artificial Green Boxwood Topiary Ball](https://i.ebayimg.com/images/g/6oYAAOSwcNtiYAhK/s-l1200.jpg). Hate those things for some reason.
Utterly hate daffodils. They look cheap and tacky to me and remind me of every single house on the council estate I grew up on.
The final words to me from the 75 year old landscape architect who taught me horticulture was ‘please don’t plant anymore photinia’. The class challenged the view that they were ‘old hat’ and felt it didn’t matter that they weren’t native. I’ve tried hard not to use them but have in a couple of large designs where contrasting foliage colour has been a requirement but they’ve very much been a foot soldier.
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Begonias 🤮🤮🤮 I used to live near a house that decked out their whole front garden and hanging baskets with hundreds of begonias each year as bedding plants and it was disgusting to look at. I actually don’t mind some of the houseplant varieties it’s just those cheap yellow/pink/red ones that you get en-mass that I cannot stand for some reason!
Don’t mind Red Robin but for some reason Pieris looks so cheap and nasty to me.
Massive empty lawns or worse, Astro turf.
Nonnatives aren’t ideal but shit it’s at least something.
Pergolas… What’s the point ?
Garden lighting… Usually a load of tacky fairy lights. Looks naff, neighbours need blackout blinds and bad for wildlife.
Plastic plants/grass of any variety.
Solar stake lights.
Cool, bright white lighting. Flashing/chasing lights.
Gravel/slate unless it’s serving a specific purpose in a limited area.
Plaques with naff sayings on them.
Wicker furniture.
Grey fences/grey garden furniture.
I also hate the look of plastic pots – although, to my shame, I have one for a tree because I couldn’t find anything big enough that wasn’t plastic. I’m busy overlap-tiling it in sewn bark pieces.
Supermarket-basic red begonias. Got a family member who fills her fake-grass-lawn’s plastic pots (full of stake lights) every summer in masses of red begonias.
Sparsely planted spring bulbs. You have to go hard!
Walls made from sleepers
Porcelain paving
Fire pits
Borders that are 1 plant deep
Photinia looks plastic, and might as well be for all the good it does in anyone’s garden. The only other thing I hate with a passion is gravel, particularly on driveways but pretty much anywhere it’s been dumped for low maintenance reasons. Why anyone would want to fill their garden with rubble is beyond me.
The new-ish “carre rouge” variant of photinia is much superior. It stays red for much longer, does get as “leggy” when it grows either. Giving it a prune in midsummer will bring out brand new red leaves again. I’ve got it as a hedge and it’s great.
Personally really not a fan of box hedges/shrubs (buxus). There are so many alternatives that are so much nicer. I am always a bit secretly on the side of the box tree caterpillars! That said I’m sure that there’s probably something brilliant and interesting about it as there is with most things so if anyone feels like sharing I’m open minded!
I also really hate fully decked ‘gardens’. Paving and concrete are fine and a bit of decking is ok but not the whole lot just feels so depressing. (Speaking from experience, not in the least open minded about this one as it’s too personal! Each to their own ofc!)
Hydrangeas
They drink even more than I do and the flowers look grimy
I really dislike cordylines. They never look like they belong, especially when they are the only living thing in a sea of gravel/plastic grass. Worst of all I’ve inherited three of the bastards and don’t like to just rip out mature plants when they aren’t causing any particularly egregious problems, so I just silently curse them and hope they get struck by lightning or something.
Aucuba japonica always looks so…ill…to me. And then it gets aucuba wilt (if you’re in the south east) and then it /is/ I’ll…
Anything that isn’t plants.
Conifers, especially when used for hedging. I am currently looking to move house and I can’t tell you how many houses are an instant no the minute I see the dreaded conifers. There should be a “no conifer” filter on Right Move.
Agree with these. Not a fan of topiary-appreciate the artistic skill to do it, but too contrived for me. I like to appreciate plants as they are. Striped lawns doused in weed/mosskiller. Look far better with daisies, etc flowering & better ecologically.
I don’t like it planted like this. But it works well when combined with some Californian lilac. The blue, red and green looks really striking.
Palm trees, hate them, look terrible and tacky in our climate and offer nothing to the eco system
It’s a fucking disgrace to see any tree or bush that is diminished to a ball square or any unnatural shape, just let them be…
Surprised at all the dislike for photinia, I quite like it as not much else going on in a lot of gardens near me at this time of year.
My dislike is buxus… Especially after it has been devoured by buxus caterpillars which most seem to these days!
I’ve got the red Robin around my front garden, it’s just a hedge 🤣
Any kind of rhododendron. All I see when I look at one is the huge toxic stands of rhododendron in parks and in the wild.
Cherry Laurel. I know it’s NOT actually plastic, but it looks it.
Those lollipop trees and shrubs, they look ridiculous
Anything fake, or gravel/concrete monotonous monoculture.
Sure natural gardens will looks scraggy and need upkeep, but….
Hydrangeas. They’re completely sterile, bees and insects can’t use them for pollination, so these big blousey alluring flowers are fucking useless. Useless!
I know they’re so good for wildlife so I can’t say I hate them, but buddlejas always look so messy to me.
I loathe Photinia Red Robin, Cherry Laurel and Salvia Hot Lips.
And white pebbles.
Photinia Just reminds me of carparks, council buildings and other dull municipal places
Personally I’m not much of a fan of grape hyacinth – I see it absolutely everywhere in my area, and though I admit it’s pretty in its own way, if it’s not in a pot, it spreads literally everywhere.
Leylandii. I hate it. It’s terrible, and nasty, and spiteful stuff!!
Oh…same goes for bamboo.
I remember reading that either male or female version can smell of semen – apparently.