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

[onyxlynx]

Delphiniums, perennial alyssum (the annual plants were just fine), petunias after the first time. The hollyhocks/larkspur actually came up, but the following year they were mowed (don't ask). Peonies have been installed and they may survive.

But delphiniums never grew.

[bridgetmkennitt]

Maybe the delphinium seeds were duds? Totally not your fault!

[onyxlynx]

3 non-consecutive years of duds. Not my fault, and I don't live there anymore. I may try again if I move back there. Or I could let the lawn care people wrestle with it.

[malnpudl]

Did your petunias get devoured? Mine always get discovered and eaten by sneaky little green caterpillars that are the exact same color of the foliage. Argh!

[onyxlynx]

Petunias were sufficiently long ago that I don't remember why they didn't come up. They just didn't.

(Now I want to plant things, and I don't have an actual garden here.)