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What flowering plants do you consider Naff?

NollieNollie Posts: 7,056
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All a matter of taste, but it’s interesting how some plants fall out of fashion and are considered naff - dahlias for a long time (am still trying to persuade OH they are not, which prompted this thread) Gladioli still on the cusp? Chrysanthemums are coming back in, I recently read. I do admit to a slight shudder over the word ‘bedding’. Obviously you should plant what you like, but what are your top naff plants you would avoid like the plague?
Mountainous Northern Catalunya, Spain. Hot summers, cold winters.
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  • Hostafan1Hostafan1 Posts: 34,053
    I'm with you Nollie. Anything which might be considered " bedding " .
    Can I add hanging baskets to the mix?
    Salvia Hot lips. Of all the lovely salvias, folk still buy that mutant freak (IMHO ) of a plant. 
    Devon.
  • MrsGardenMrsGarden Posts: 3,951
    I used to dislike all yellow flowers (apart from a few like daffodils). Now I find I'm yearning for them but they clash with my pinks and lilacs. 
  • punkdocpunkdoc Posts: 13,743
    I dislike most Begonias, but there are a few beauties.
    Have always loved Dahlias, such vibrancy.
    As in all things, don't follow fashion, set it.
    How can you lie there and think of England
    When you don't even know who's in the team

    S.Yorkshire/Derbyshire border
  • Hostafan1Hostafan1 Posts: 34,053
    punkdoc said:

    As in all things, don't follow fashion, set it.
    My motto is :
    "Some of us set trends, others can merely follow in our wake"
    Devon.
  • Mark56Mark56 Posts: 1,653
    edited August 2018
    Begonias, ‘bedding’ marigolds in particular, artificial flowers.. ;)
  • Hostafan1Hostafan1 Posts: 34,053
    If @Lyn isn't looking, dare I add fucshias?
    Devon.
  • B3B3 Posts: 25,260
    Naff is not a word I'd choose, but there are some plants that I can't abide:
    Forsythia
    Ceanothis
    Those big marigolds (I think they're called African)
    Dahlias or petunias with definite stripes.
    Michaelmas daisies
    Salvia hot lips
    The irises that grow from bulbs but not the ones with the leopard markings in the middle
    Anything bipinnate that I've come across -horrible scruffy things.
    Acid green or yellow flowers
    That'll do for now. ;)
    In London. Keen but lazy.
  • punkdocpunkdoc Posts: 13,743
    Wot, no Euphorbias?
    How can you lie there and think of England
    When you don't even know who's in the team

    S.Yorkshire/Derbyshire border
  • NollieNollie Posts: 7,056
    Ooh, Bergonias, it’s seems awful to hate a plant, but yes. I am coming round to yellow, too!
    Mountainous Northern Catalunya, Spain. Hot summers, cold winters.
  • Hostafan1Hostafan1 Posts: 34,053
    SOME variegated plants. Those which are not as nice as the un-variegated form. eg ceanothus, pyracantha, agapanthus, euphorbia and the like. 
    Ivy, holly, and hostas, yes please to variegation.
    Devon.
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