We're you at it in the 70's?!

BrodieP

Even though my earliest memories are of the 90's we absolutely love the 70's and 80's. We are slowly 'doing up' a house that was built in the 70's then 'modernised' (terribly) in the 2000's. We're currently renovating, decorating, restoring - all with a nod to the decade in which the house was designed.
We'd really like to extend this thinking to at least some of the garden. We're looking for the gardening equivalent to prawn cocktail, chicken Kiev and arctic roll all washed down with a Pina Colada. We'd love to know what plants were a must for the gardener of the 70's - please share your thoughts and memories!!

Dovefromabove

Conifers and heathers. Check out Adrian Bloom of Bressingham’s book Gardening with Conifers ... especially the bits referring to the 60/70s. 

Pete.8

Mophead Hydrangeas
Dwarf conifers and heathers
Dahlias
Tagetes 
Hybrid Tea Roses
Floribunda Roses
Roses Peace and Iceberg were in many gardens
Lavender
Hollyhocks
Impatiens 

Happy days

Good luck with your project!

Arctic roll - it was the only thing at school they served that was edible 

Hostafan1

Vile ,naff, gaudy bedding displays are my memories of the 70s
and " dwarf ( which rarely stayed that way) conifers and heathers as @Dovefromabove mentioned

Elfer

All I remember is lawns & roses 😂

Biglad

Sorry @BrodieP - I can't help you as I'm only 27

B3

Kochia
Stripy dahlias
Anything municipal like red salvia with a canna stuck up in the middle of it .
Cobalt blue garden furniture. This was more 80s but cutting edge at the end of the 70s
Uncomfortable pub benches 
Beans growing up tent things
Marijuana . Grow near kerria. Looked similar enough
Pampas grass ( don't go there) but the height of sophistication
Low growing conifers

JennyJ

My Grandad had what he called dinnerplate dahlias, and my Nan used to plant an edging of alternating blue Lobelia and white Alyssum. My parents weren't really gardeners then but I think the prevous owners of the house were. In our garden there were red-hot pokers, yellow flag iris, a big clump of what my Mum used to call spanish iris but is actually Tradescantia, a large pink lupin, loads of London Pride, and some floribunda and HT roses (including Peace, and a washy lilac one called Blue Moon). Oh and a sycamore tree, a forsythia bush, a weigela and a lilac. The lilac met its end when it's top got sliced off by a ridge tile that came off next-door's roof.

D0rdogne_Damsel

I remember our garden having a red white and blue theme for the Silver Jubilee in what must have been 1977. Lots of tubs made from turning tyres inside out and painted white (my dad owned a garage) with White Alyssum, Blue Lobelia and Red Salvia. Also lots of Dahlia and Gladioli, quite gawdy colours too. Quite a formal style front garden with Hybrid Tea Roses neatly spaced out. I do remember one rose bush being a Blue Moon, dad was very precious about it.  

We had a large ornamental pond with Koi carp, and a rockery which contained a waterfall that fed the pond, the rocks were big and white and shiny and the whole thing was not in the least bit 'natural'. 

Happy memories of helping dad in the garden, but nothing like the style of gardening I follow now. 

AnniD

I remember the show gardens at Gardeners' World Live in 2017 celebrating 50 years of GE.
This could have been the 1960s rather than the 70s, but it sums up at least the beginning of the decade for me.
Crazy paving. Still like it.
Sorry not sorry.

Fire

We had a "rockery" in the 1970s. My earliest memories are of saxifrage and an old manual push mower.