Your plant nemesis

[bridgetmkennitt]

We all have at least one. It's that plant that you try to grow and grow, but for some reason or another, it just dies or doesn't bloom or doesn't grow any vegetables.

What plant do you consider your nemesis?

Comments

[malnpudl]

I have to open this with the obvious: Himalayan Blue Poppy (meconopsis betonicifolia)

When I lived in the eastern -- which is to say hotter and drier -- part of the San Francisco Bay area, I tried and failed three times to grow this. Because I never give up on anything until I've killed it three times. (That's a thing for most gardeners, right? The three-times thing?)

Now I live up in the NW corner of California, only about 10 miles inland from the coast and on a bluff over a river valley. Which is to say, I'm now in the right climate to grow my nemesis... except that pretty much all I have is full sun. I'm still going to try it again one of these days. Because now I get three more tries, right? :-D

[ravena_kade]

Coneflower. For some reason something usually eats it totally or birds cut the flowers off. The black eyed susan form can almost be considered a weed, but something kills it in my yard. If it does survive the season it dies over the winter. I have no idea why.

[malnpudl]

That is just unfair, right? Hmph.

[bridgetmkennitt]

*cheers you on* You totally have three more tries.