Big disappoint when we went on vacation in July for a week and returned to find our 10 foot carpinus japonica without a leaf. Week before it looked just fine. Don't know what happened to it and it's gone now.

Alison...this is such a good question.

This may sound funny...but, that wonderous Rozanne Geranium that blooms all summer and fall is so, so big & wide that I've had to prune it. I didn't realized it would be so big & sprawling it's second year.

I waited 7 years for my climbing hydrangea to finally bloom...the plant is huge and I had three flowers. ONly a token jesture. I hope for more next year.

I lost two butterfly bushes. I was very sad to see these 8 year old plants go. Luckily, I had 2 year old seedling volunteer butterfly bush growing under my Japanese maple. So, I got to replace one.

I am disappointed (mad as can be) that a ground hog lives in my neighborhood. Mimi is my back yard neighbor. I heard rumbling from her potting area through the trees & I hollared hello. With no reply and went to see her. Well..the noise was that dern groundhug burrowing under her potting bench. When it saw me..it ran right past me and went under my deck!!! Some nerve!!

....Beverly

Hmmm... I've been told groundhogs make a rather nice, slow-cooked pot roast....

So far...I've only lost stuff I didn't get watered...I did go hog wild at the Springhill sale, and several of the 3/99cents had one die out of the bunch, but how can you fault a 33 cent loss? And...the tree peony I had doubts about when I bought it from them bare root is GROWING! YEEHAW....

I guess the biggest scare is the thought that the person who was buying my house was going to bulldoze it all right away...but this deal is now in question.....but...I now have a garden in CT which is supposed to be on a house for sale with a green fish pond and so many weeds it will take several days to get it straightened out....

oh yeah....and the fact that I can't do everything at once. That's a huge disappointment.....

Allison, don't give up on the agapanthus. My bareroot ones didn't bloom the first year...they don't like a lot of messing around and I think they have to get to a certain size before they bloom. Hang on and treat them nice and they may produce for you next year.

I'm also glad to hear about your experience with they nymophilia...I wanted to try these and so I am glad to hear your appraisal.

Oh yeah....poker primrose...they look so neat inthe pictures...but they are TINY. I think the whole poker is about half the size of my pinkie and about 1 1/2" long.....sort of disappointing, but it may redeem itself.

Opposite problem with Rozanne, the darned thing is doing nothing for me. There have been discussions about its sprawling in Perennials, but that has not been my experience. crapo.

Then, paper moon scabiosa was so wonderful for me last year. I sent seeds everywhere and winter sowed them again. Not only were they not perennial, but the winter sowed ones rotted. I had to BUY seed and those are doing darn near nothing. I have sowed my last seed and those aren't germinating. WHAT THE HECK?

That pennie black did nothing for me last year. But folks keep raving about it, so try try again i suppose.

Sambucus racemosa 'sutherland's gold'. I have coveted this plant in many gardens and bought one this spring even though I didn't know where I would put it. Being a gold leaved plant, I knew part shade would be best, but I don't have much of that. It didn't stop me and I bought it anyway believing what I've heard about its ability to take more sun. I planted it in full sun, under what will someday be shade from an Oak and a dogwood. Surprise - surprise, it's really struggling. If it lives through the winter I'll be shocked! I'm already thinking of what to replace it with.

Six Hills giant catmint. This is the second summer and it looks absolutely no different than 'Walkers Low'. I'm bringing it to the plant swap because I think I've got plenty of catmint already.

Alabama Sunset honeysuckle. How the #)(#&%P(#*%& do you grow this plant and have it look good? I bought it for the hummingbirds and they like it o.k. but it's so gangly and it doesn't seem to twine around anything. I have to weave it through the wire and then it just sticks out in a really weird way. I'm not at all fond of this plant and it may be on the endangered list in my yard. If anyone has an idea how to make this plant look good, I'd love to hear it! :)

I forgot St. John's Wort.

None of the packages I saw were labelled as to what type of Hypericum they were, so I took a chance. I was hoping to get the kind I had in my herb garden at work; a big, sturdy bush with gorgeous yellow pompoms. Instead I got what seemed like an evergreen groundcover. That spread. And spread. And.... I ripped it all out before it got too far!

Won;t plant that again unless I know is the perforatum.

Disappointments in my gardens??Just one!!!
WEEDS!!!!

Michigoose -- what do you do with your agapanthus over winter? I'm pretty sure mine won't survive over winter outside. I'd be willing to nurse these thru another winter if I thought I'd get anything next year!

I'd have to say the "dissapointment" of the year was the process of taking down a dying tree in the front yard. I have been putting the yard back together ever since, but it's taken me until now just to get a little ahead. Weeds have been pretty bad too with all the heat.

The whole ordeal could have been a little better had I been more prepared. Having a tree cut down is nooooo thing to take lightly. Good thing is that I have only one more tree on the property that might have to come down in my lifetime, so that's a definate plus!

Still looking for homes for some of the plants that were around the tree, so the fall will be a busy time for me to try and get ready for next year. Hopefully I can actually take the time to enjoy the garden next year.

Shannon

Biggest disappointment was in the veggie garden. Borers got into my squash and cucumbers. Something ate up my green beans. Next year- chemicals!

my biggest one is my foxgloves! I planted 2 last yr. and they never came up this year! So bummed! But to make up for them, I bought a hot pink rose bush! Just love it!!