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  • Border flowering plants that dont get massacred by slugs and snails..

    Hey forumers

    My front garden border is getting battered

    Which border plants are ignored pretty much? Im aware begonias are not desirable due to their sap. Lavender also obviously.

    Any others?

    Thanks

    C

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    Sorry I don't understand your comment re begonias, I find the slugs leave them pretty much alone unlike things like petunias. Are you allergic to they're sap or something? Re other slug proof plants, there aren't many although pelegoniumsbare pretty bullet proof.

    Actually just read your post again and am even more confused, what is the issue with lavender?
    Last edited by Alison; 18-06-2016, 01:49 PM.

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    • #3
      I think it's pretty clear Alison. They're saying that they already know that slugs aren't keen on Begonias and Lavender
      What do you get if you divide the circumference of a pumpkin by its diameter?
      Pumpkin pi.

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      • #4
        Plants in my garden that don't seem to be bothered by slugs are bears breeches, heuchera (sp?), marguerites, crocosmia, aquilegia (to an extent), hollyhock and lupins. Some of them it is a case of getting past the young, tender, juicy stage but they usually make it through - eventually

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        • #5
          Originally posted by skeggijon View Post
          I think it's pretty clear Alison. They're saying that they already know that slugs aren't keen on Begonias and Lavender
          That could be it, I read it as begonias not being desirable to grow because of slugs.

          Some of us live in the past, always talking about back then. Some of us live in the future, always planning what we are going to do. And, then there are those, who neither look behind or ahead, but just enjoy the moment of right now.

          Which one are you and is it how you want to be?

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          • #6
            My geraniums never get damaged like my petunia,marigolds,dahlia etc. They have a little bite in the leaf & must decide it's disgusting & travel on. If I was growing only geraniums they'd have to eat it,it could be to do with choice & their preferences. Do you have a mix of flowers of different varieties?
            Location : Essex

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            • #7
              Of the plants mentioned so far, I'm afraid both lupins and margeurites get attacked by slugs in my garden.

              A few that I grow which are reliably slug-free are:

              The giant inula (Inula magnifica)
              Knautia macedonica, which is a pink scabious-type thing
              Lysimachia ephemerum (grey-green foliage, white flowers)
              Echinops ritro (globe thistle).
              My gardening blog: In Spades, last update 30th April 2018.
              Chrysanthemum notes page here.

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              • #8
                Martin would you like my marguerites? Mine are like triffids. I dumped 3 massive clumps last year as they take over everything. It goes to show the slugs are different in everyones garden as slugs love my marigolds when young and my dahlias. Last year they attacked my dahlias so much that they weakened the plants and this year they are a no show

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                • #9
                  Originally posted by Norfolkgrey View Post
                  Last year they attacked my dahlias so much that they weakened the plants and this year they are a no show
                  They are often a no show cos the slugs just take them down to ground daily.
                  My penstemons don't seem to be to bothered by slugs

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                  • #10
                    You could try some pansies, I always have a fair amount of self seeded plants about the garden, which would indicate that slugs and snails leave the alone
                    it may be a struggle to reach the top, but once your over the hill your problems start.

                    Member of the Nutters Club but I think I am just there to make up the numbers

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                    • #11
                      Any slugs that ventured near Acanthus spinosus would be impaled
                      I grow it - fantastic statuesque plant

                      https://www.rhs.org.uk/Plants/157/Ac...osus-L/Details

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                      • #12
                        oh ,.my that looks a bit nice.

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                        • #13
                          Originally posted by Scarlet View Post
                          My penstemons don't seem to be to bothered by slugs
                          Good call! Neither do mine.
                          My gardening blog: In Spades, last update 30th April 2018.
                          Chrysanthemum notes page here.

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                          • #14
                            Lilac, fuchsias, buddleia, crocosmia, lavatera, Brunnera, primulas, hellebores & more I can't remember as am a bit lurgy.....
                            Another happy Nutter...

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                            • #15
                              Viburnum , geranium, astrantia, hellebore, broom, day lily , clematis, roses, gaillardia, anemone, cornflowers, cosmos, lithodora, campanula, bugle, poppy, alchemilia, astilbe ..also thinking round the garden
                              Northern England.

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