I ditched most of my irises. My garden no longer gets as much sun as they need and the constant need to divide them was too much.

Double orange daylilies--too thuggish

Tiger lilies--ditto

Just some volunteer seedlings that I let go and thought would work in the spot, but no. Red twig dogwood and wild Senna.

I didn’t have the courage to do it this year, but I’ll be removing a few plants next Spring, that are just not doing well.

mxk3 I am one of those gardeners that has a hard time ditching anything unless it is weedy like Lobelia inflata that seeded in. The Campanula & Veronica surprised me a little. I really miss my V. 'Blue Charm' and will get it again if available. I wish your Peony had made it, it was spectacular! I feel for you on that one.

Ajuga in a couple of spots where I was tired of having to pull it back a couple of times a year. It just likes my garden waaay too much.

Daylily flava gone in one of four spots. There is one spot it can stay against a building away from anything else. sweet_betsy yes, much too thuggish! Mine were single.

Lysimachia clethroides. It is so thuggish but I still adore it so I am thinking hard about a place for it somewhere it can be by itself.

Uvularia grandiflora - I ditched some but kept a lot of it. I really like it and if I deadheaded it would not be an issue.

Dianthus deltoides - ripped out many, kept some.

Ferns that were clogging up areas of more desirable plants. Still enjoy them in the right spots.

Heliopsis 'Summer Sun' - I kept some that were not affected by mildew. These were such a dependable plant for decades until aphids & mildew hit them.

Stray Rudbeckia triloba. I adore this plant but it seed about prolifically. I have a large swath and that is enough.

Pulled dozens of Lobelia siphilitica both white and blue. A plant that I like but deadheading is vital.

Lily of the Valley - I dug out a huge patch when we bought the property, but I keep finding and eradicating it where it seeded. I would only grow it in a pot where the roots could not get into soil and never let seed pods develop. I despise it in the ground, far too thuggish.

I'm sure there is more but that's all I can think of right now.

A Buddleja that was slowly declining. I had it for years and really hated to get rid of it but it just was looking awful.

It did give me room for lots of new pretties : )

I cull something every year. Gardens are never static and if a plant is not performing up to my expectations, has become overly vigorous or it has lost its visual appeal, out it comes!!

I shovel pruned a crappy cultivar of red currant and a crappy dwarf cherry tree as it gets eaten by the Japanese fruit fly (Drosphila suzukii)

got rid of Geranium x cantabrigiense Biokovo in one bed, a real workhorse for difficult spots, but in this case too bullying and choking the polyantha roses next to it.

composted two Dahlia gift tubers (unlabeled, probably seedlings) that did not perform well as cut flowers, far too short...

and a NoID tea-hybrid flowering yellow and with soso foliage

pulled out a foundling, a not-impressive Miscanthus volunteer which has probably the potential to turn into an difficult, invasive neophyte in our region

---by now I am convinced that there are boring/ bad/ poorly performing plants that are not always worth it to find them a new home,

life is too short for mediocre garden plants, and our plot is quite limited in space so , stuff that I keep should perform really well...

I gave away a penstemon Dark Towers that just wasn't doing it for me. I moved and split and gave away some named daylilies, irises, and lavender, and I also, like peren.all, ripped out a lot of lobelia siphilitica. It's lovely in bloom but likes it's swampy home a bit too much!

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Dee

Yes. I had some strange white liatris that would not grow straight up. They grew to be almost four feet tall and splayed out wide like a big spider into my driveway area. It was a tight walking spot so they had to go.

I actually got rid of my purple liatris. They're pretty when in bloom, but had spread a lot and bloom period is short. In the spring I need to remove a big clump of chelone. I had chelone Hot Lips there, but another more vigorous and less pretty variety nearby took over the whole area. I doubt I can tease the 2 apart, so will pull it all and buy some new Hot Lips this spring. Otherwise I gave away a lot of divisions and volunteers of various things. Trying to maintain some order. Still have lots of purple coneflowers to give away or toss in the spring. I leave the seed heads standing for the goldfinches, who love it, but they seem to spread the seeds all over the place in the process of eating.

Many years back, a very well meaning friend had given me a type of small flowered blue allium, a few years later she was eagerly recommending I remove every last bulb from my garden ... boy, she wasn't kidding, the things had seeded out by the masses and a single clump in itself capable of producing at least 30 or 40 more tiny bulbs. I went after them with a vengeance and now maybe have a few left dotting around here and there, come spring they'll be targeted for destruction! I also had gotten rid of a lot of 'Millennium' allium seedlings and culled a number of self sown heliopsis in favor some that are superior.

I removed lots of daylilies. The previous owner planted a bunch including the orange ditch lilies. The orange ones were out of control so I already removed those. I was going to keep some of the others, but we have deer that eat all the flower buds so I usually end up with very few, if any, flowers. I don‘t care for the foliage so they had to go.

I also removed a yellow knockout in favor of Julia Child and some bearded irises. Oh, and tradescantia. It was out of control. I’m sure I didn’t get it all and am going to have to deal with more in the spring.

I'm starting to get tired of cutting back the miscanthus so some of that left. Siberian iris are amazing but the bloom season is short and they've spread, so most of the clumps have been hacked up. I've cut down the wisteria (again) after losing all the flowers to a late freeze, but there's always a bit that comes back. Many cactus were tossed. It was fun, but the spines get old fast. Some hellebores were tossed just because they became boring. A ton of camassia were given away as well as two tons of daffodils... everything multiplies and there are always too many seedlings which need room to grow and new plants to try out!

I used to feel guilty and tried to keep every last seedling and division but it's just too time consuming and my friends are starting to wise up.