What flowers can I fro this summer that slugs/snails won't eat?

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Any ideas?

I'm just growing whatever i want and have just coated my garden in slug and snail pellets. Not ideal but otherwise I'll be unable to grow anything.

While the slugs are stripping my clematis, lupine, sweet peas and even heucheura, they are leaving the antirrhinum (snapdragons) well alone. Also they have not touched the astilbe.

Slugs and snails always leave my aquilegia alone. (I assume because it's slightly poisonous!)

They tend not to eat heuchera in my experience.

You gotta get tough... In Lark Rise to Candleford, Flora Thompson describes collecting snails from the garden as a delicacy for the family pig

Astilbe and aquilegia also fine here. Astrantia is safe from slugs, quick grow nigella, peonies and roses are amazingly protected. Foxgloves and campanula too.

Have loads more suggestions - do you have a sunny or a shady garden? Dry or damp?

Penstemon, geraniums and clematis are good. Aquilegias too. I also have geums, hebe, potillias, lavenders, phlox, ox-eye daisys, hydrangea.
I don't tend to have bedding plants because they always get eaten though.

Couple more from my slug infested garden:
Solomon’s seal, bleeding heart, irises (get nibbled but not destroyed). I also use a lot of small shrubs which are too high/tough for slugs. Slug pellets are a no no in my garden as we get quite a few frogs and I have seen frogs killed after eating pelleted slugs If I want to plant anything the slugs like, I do it in big pots that they find harder to access (and you can pick them off the bottom of the pots where they hide in the day).

I second geraniums. After years of having my garden pots ruined by slugs and snails, I focus on geraniums now - at least there are lots of different flowers and colours, also upright and trailing.

Also fuchsia, dianthus and penstemon.

Once planted a trough of marigolds - never again. Bastards had all the leaves off overnight

Haha, I have some marigold seedlings this year. That'll be a test of the nematodes.

Mesembryanthemums didn't seem to get munched last year, nor did bacopa or bidens.

Sergeant, we're those the "organic" slug pellets, or the old kind?

Really can't find solid info on whether there is really a difference.

Oooh, erigeron! That's pretty indestructible.

Helianthemum. Love them. Loads of colours to pick from.

The old kind, but the blue “organic” ones are no longer labelled as organic as they are more toxic to pets/wildlife than originally thought. I’m too scared to try- that dead frog haunts me! I tried the expensive wool ones, they did nothing but make my garden smell of wet sheep.

Raised tonnes of ice plants from seed this year so glad to hear they’re slug resistant! Bit late for this year, but I have planted loads of Camassia and they haven’t been touched by the slugs- I’m so happy!

We have a cottage/wildlife type garden and don’t use slug pellets (have a small pond and lots of happy frogs)
The cottage style flowers that seem to fare well include:
Nasturtiums
Salvias
Scabious
Lavender
Alliums
Most herbs (sage, chives, parsley, fennel, marjoram)
Lots more but that’s the ones I can think of now.

If planting something vulnerable, you can try keeping a good foot or so of soil around the plant constantly disturbed (by hoeing or lightly turning with fork every couple of days) until it is well established and too big for them to do much damage. This isn’t foolproof but I have found that slugs and snails won’t venture very far over disturbed soil and it can put them off temporarily. This worked for us last year when we planted climbing beans.

There is a difference between organic and non organic slug pellets...the non organic ones will also kill off other creatures whereas the organic ones only work on slugs.

My top advice though if you have a huge slug problem is to treat with nematodes a week before you plant out. It brings the population to manageable level and gives your plants time to establish.

I thought there was some doubt as to whether the “organic” ones would only kill slugs, hence the change in classification. I noticed that the containers no longer say “pet friendly” as well. Have they definitely shown that they’re non-toxic to other animals?

An annual for pots I would recommend nemesia. Really pretty and slugs/snails didn't touch at all last year.

Will try the nematodes though!

If you want to grow stuff they demolish, my top tip is hanging baskets. I felt like an absolute genius when I realised that last year, and rescued the basil...

As well as many of the above, cosmos always do well for me.

Parsley doesn't last a night in my garden !!!