Comments on: 6 Most Overused Landscape Plants

By: Jenny Peterson

Jenny Peterson — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 14:49:50 +0000

Thanks, Billy! If I’da had my wits about me, I would have added Golden Euonymus to the list, with its creepy weird sudden offshoots of golden grossness. Wait! Let’s make another list!

By: Billy Goodnick

Billy Goodnick — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 06:01:27 +0000

Jenny: Having just befriended you at Facebook, I popped over to your blog to see what you’re up to. Great writing, great subject matter and as already stated at FB, great ‘tude. I took a similar approach in my local blog at a website called Edhat.com. Here’s my list of plants I would touch with a ten foot pole (or eight-foot three-inch Czech).
http://www.edhat.com/site/tidbit.cfm?id=2789

By: Jenny Peterson

Jenny Peterson — Mon, 11 Jan 2010 21:14:32 +0000

Hi Katie! I like them, too, I’m just tired of them! ; ) And about the nandinas–I remember reading a review about Nandina ‘Nana’ that their foliage makes them look like chlorotic beachballs!

By: Katie

Katie — Mon, 11 Jan 2010 18:23:09 +0000

Well, I like the lantana, ruellia and daylilies for certain situations. But, with nothing else, they are certainly boring.

I’m having a major depressive episode looking out my window at my garden right now. We are not meant for this cold down here.

I hate HATE nandina, everywhere.

By: Jenny Peterson

Jenny Peterson — Sat, 09 Jan 2010 00:12:28 +0000

Apel, although I love some of the daylily flowers I have to agree with you about the foliage; it’s pretty floppy, particularly the first season after planting. Clients sometimes look at me like I’m nuts that I put that in!

Debra, you and I are on the same page with succulents! I have an entire balcony full of succulents that have taken a hit with the unusually cold winter we’ve had so far! : ( And, I’m going to include what I call “meatball shrubs” in a Garden Fail post sometime soon.

Thanks for comments!

By: Debra Lee Baldwin

Debra Lee Baldwin — Fri, 08 Jan 2010 22:19:58 +0000

When I interviewed Christopher Lloyd for the San Diego Union-Tribune, he said disparagingly of local gardens, “It’s astonishing you do so little with what you’ve got.” I think of that when I see the one-size-fits-all, ho-hum combo of lawn, flowerbeds (with tired annuals), palm trees that have grown too tall (nothing but trunks unless you’re looking at them from down the block), Texas privet pruned by idiot gardeners into labor-intensive balls or amoebas, junipers with their wood exposed (because they got too big and had to be pruned back), and the list goes on. As for what I’d like to see more of…well, I wrote two books on the subject…

By: Apel Mjausson

Apel Mjausson — Fri, 08 Jan 2010 21:42:17 +0000

Some of my over-used pet peeves:
If I never see another Coleus, I’ll be just fine. Didn’t like them back in the seventies, still don’t like them now.

I’m afraid that it’s not just Stella d’Oro I don’t like, I don’t like any day lilies at all. They’re all terribly untidy, flopping this way and that. And they’re everywhere.

Then there are all the plants with dark foliage. Heuchera, particularly, but recently everything seems to come with “bronze” leaves. When did green go out of fashion? Bah!