As a garden owner, there are some plants I dislike, and won't have in my garden - not just the obvious ones such as Ground Elder and other spreading weeds: proper plants, which other people love and cherish, but which I would put straight in the green waste bin, ie not even worth composting.
And as you know (because I am always going on about it), I love composting, and am evangelical about the subject. So for me to reject something from the compost pen, it must be bad! ("In my opinion...")
Euphorbia is one of those: ugh, shudder, horrible things: I don't find them attractive, the so-called flowers (actually, bracts) are like sinister little satellite dishes, watching me... I would swear that they turn on their stems, to follow me round the garden..... and they all contain rather nasty sap (latex) which many people find to be a skin irritant, and which, if you get it in your eye, means a trip to the hospital. Nasty stuff. So I won't have them in my garden, and I won't have them on my compost, either.
Forget-me-Not are also on that list: I don't find the flowers particularly attractive, although I will concede that after a spring full of yellow, it is quite nice to see some blue... but there are other blue flowers to be had, which are much more manageable, which don't spread all over the entire garden, and which don't leave my entire body covered in seeds:
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