Don't feel too bad. That yearly spring trip to the nursery to buy little flowering plants that are devoured overnight by slugs, snails, cutworms or deer.
Nurseries thrive on annuals.
A flowering plant that takes two full years to flower briefly before it dies. Also, how often some of us sharpen the mower blade, whether it needs it or not. A lovely, yellow flowered perennial that you do not want in your garden, but you get it anyway. A dried or plastic plant that flowers all year long without ever having to be watered, fertilized or pruned. Evergreen indoor shrub or tree that wants to be deciduous.