Slug proof plants

[EdlessAllenPoe]

My garden usually abounds with snails and slugs, and after four weeks of rain currently swarms with them...

I don't like using slug pellets so i have just accepted that they are there, but which plants can i try that they just don't want to eat?

so far i have -

Nemesia
Verbena
Lobelia
Pansies (they get eaten but they grow so fast it doesn't matter)
osteospermums (though possibly, i have planted them alongside petunias and the slugs are eating the petunias first...)
Pinks
Oxalis (though where should these be planted? mine is in shade - is that right?)
Gazanias (again, these might just not have been eaten yet)
saxifrage
lavender

on the no list -

petunias
marigolds
chrysanthemums
lupins

i may as well have just put down slug food. Any more good suggestions? i like abundant flowers, but currently..anything that stays alive is good.

I have been thinking of starting a thread on this too.

It's early in the morning so my brain isn't yet retrieving actual names but things that have survived in my garden that are not on your list.

Big daisies (sorry really can't think of the word. Maybe they are on your list!)
Aubretia is doing ok
Helianthemum
Geranium
echinacea
iris
clematis / honeysuckle

I'll be back when I've convinced my toddler to go slug killing....

I don't think there are many slugs won't try tbh. They are a bloody menace.

Kaffir Lilly
Briza Maxima (lantern grass)
monarda

Teasel
Geranium
Alpine strawberry (although they will eat the fruit)
My main tactic is to grow stuff indoors until it reaches a decent size before putting it out.
Or grow sacrificial stuff like bronze fennel to lure them away from prettier flowers, and harvest them from that regularly (usually on bin day into an old marg tub so by the time they escape they're miles away).

A few years ago our garden was swarming with slugs and snails, I'd tried pellets but that didn't stop them reducing my news plants to stumps. So I got a plastic bag and some rubber gloves and culled them. The bag was about half full by the time I'd finished! It was one of the most disgusting things ever but we haven't had a problem with them since!

I have been wondering if my morning cull is doing any good. Did you do it daily, or in one big go?

I find they don't touch yer bog standard marigolds (calendulas?)- they like the french ones only (classy)

also big daisies (marguerites)
love in a mist they can't be arsed with- not leafy enough, I reckon
most bulbs are safe

if you plant lupins, delphiniums or dahlias you might as well put up a little slug size sign attached to a lollystick saying "EAT ALL YOU CAN MOLLUSC BANQUET THIS WAY"

[bitter fucking experience emoticon]

I did one big cull (boak) and then kept on culling whenever it rained. Haven't had to do it since ad that was about three years ago.

i really can't bring myself to cull them..they're sort of cute. like Llamas. flower-eating llamas.

hadn't tried geraniums - and teasel? new one on me, will look for it...
iris could well work, though for some reason the big lovely bearded ones seem not to grow in my garden (southern facing, chalky?)

i will add 'sunflower' to slug food list. the dwarf one has no leaves left.