So funny! I have replanted a loose hedge border with the same shrubs I’d removed a few years prior. Dug up 2 of my 3 Osmanthus Goshiki False Holly shrubs that created a loose hedge border between my yard & neighbor’s. Replaced with smaller pygmy barberry shrubs. Fast forward @ 5 years & new neighbor took out their bit of lawn & expanded their driveway so I wanted a taller border. Out went the pygmy barberry (3 plants) & in went 2 new Goshiki plants with day lilly put in as filler while the shrubs bulk up.

🤣 too funny!

OMG yes...and do you know what it was? Veronica longifolia 'Blauriesin' . Coupla years later, I bought what I thought was v.spicata...but nope, back with bloody Blauriesin again.

Have also bought Crater Lake Blue 3 (THREE) times in some delusional state of mind. Influenced, I seem to recall, by you, mxk3.

Mind, the worst enabler on here was a fella called Wieslaw - had a terrific garden with wonderful plants...which I tried (and failed) to emulate. There are others...still here. Not going to name names but truly, I have no willpower when presented with a lovely garden photo. Last year, veronicastrum comes to mind...

Crosses veronica (any of them) off my tentative list for the bank holiday plant sale I am going to.

worst enabler on here was a fella called Wieslaw

Now that's a name from the past....wonder where he got to.

(Wasn't he Scandinavian/Dutch....?)

Last year, veronicastrum comes to mind...

That had to be @FrozeBudd_z3/4!

Feel better MXK, i liked Blue Skywalker very much. i bought it several years ago. it disappeared over the winter and now i can find it only at expensive on line sources. it was a good blue , taller than the midget plants that fill the nurseries. Around year 3 it began to flop a bit. it bought time by nicely requesting a plant hoop

ah, Blausrein. ( sp) i coveted it from the moment i saw it at chicago Botanic Gardens then at the home of an acquaintance who’s a good gardener. i could not find it anwhere. Not listed in nurseries or on line. finally asked for a piece, begged really. i have a scap i dare not plant until it is more robust.

i doubt Id make the mistake of Crater Lake blue again. It grows those little horns on the flower tips which i cannot ignore. One of few plants with a single fault that I

can’t ignore.

Are you referring to buying something you already dislike, or liking it first and then growing to dislike it?

No, it wasn't me with the Crater Lake Blue...

I do very much like "Marietta" veronica. It's not as tall as I'd like, more of a mid-height 18-24", but the spires are a gorgeous shade of rich purple and nicely shaped -- none of that stubby nonsense.

No veronica has ever come remotely close to "Lavendar Charm" (aka Blue Charm). Tall, elegant beauty with graceful, slender spires gently waving in the breeze. Why she is no longer available befuddles me. I suspect it's due to the craze of dwarfing everything.

"Are you referring to buying something you already dislike, or liking it first and then growing to dislike it? "

I bought the same plant years ago and shovel-pruned it, I didn't like it. I just didn't remember I didn't like it when I was plant shopping the other day. LOL!

I don’t remember Wieslaw, that was before my time on GW I guess, but the name is not Dutch. I found an old thread from 2012 in which he said "I'm near the city of Holstebro in West Jutland", so Denmark. You were right with Scandinavian, Rouge.

mxk that is TOO funny!

I haven't had that exact thing happen to me, but I have been researching plants online, and come across GW in the search results. I'll think, oh! Let see what they have to say, and I click on the link and there I am, asking the same question 10 years ago! It does catch you by surprise, doesn't it? Guess it goes to show the extent of my procrastination when ten years later I'm still debating buying the same plant!

And yes, there are MANY enablers on this forum! Although, I guess you can't blame them when we see one gorgeous photo and decide we MUST have that plant! (Well, speaking for myself at least lol!)

:)

Dee

Awesome. This one will thrive.

Chris

found a thread dissing it and stating it was shovel-pruned -- posted by *me*. LOL!

>>>> almost peed myself laughing so hard..

maybe almost a hundred times.... but usually annuals.. cheap little plants...

not really.. but i hope you got such a precise mental pic.. rotflmbo ..

ken

Me! I hated, despised, and I don't know why? Agastache 'Heather Queen'. The hummingbirds love it. It has beautiful, upright stems. The foliage is pretty. What was my deal? Grew it from seed last year. It survived the winter, and it's growing now. Let's see if I can remember why I gave it away. I still can't remember.

https://www.selectseeds.com/products/agastache-cana-heather-queen-seeds