Pretty bedding plants that slugs/snails will leave alone :(

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Despite using pellets and checking for the horrible critters every morning, in the last two weeks I have lost 2 coleos plants (they were so pretty) about 7 small sunflower plants that I grew myself from seed in the greenhouse and just planted out, a rockery type plant and a foxglove. Just decimated-I wanted to cry!!

Is there anything (pref part-shade loving) pretty that they don’t like the taste of??

Bloke at the allotments told me about this amazing stuff called 'slugzilla' it's seaweed based so kind to everything except slugs !

You can buy it online. slugzilla.co.uk/
It's been bloody brilliant for our veggies.

For bedding in pots and containers, copper tape in a ring around the top can help - it gives the little blighters an electric shock(!) I learnt a tip many moons ago, also for pots. Smear a ring of vaseline around the tops - this also worked.

@HumptyNumptyNooNoo that stuff sounds good but would a fertiliser for veggies be ok for flowering plants ?

Yes works for plants and flowers too I believe.

Get a couple of hens, then no slug snail or bug problems

yeah but hens = no plants either, or only rather scratched ones!

I find a lot of bedding plants get slugged in the shade here (damp soil, damp climate) but primulas, hardy geraniums, bugle (ajuga reptans), alliums, japanese anemones, astrantia, granny's bonnets (aquilega), hellebores (christmas rose) , plumonaria (lungwort) & london pride, all do well, and either live for years or seed themselves easily. Also I love ferns!

They seem to like most bedding in my garden. I favour hardy perennials too and I grow all of my annuals in pots and plant them out only when established.
Scabious
Ox Eye Daisy
Nigella
Phacelia
Are all slug proof

Siameasy I bet your garden is pretty ,those plants are lovely .

This takes a bit longer but if you attract birds and frogs and hedgehogs etc. to your garden they LOVE to eat slugs and snails. A natural pond and a bird table will help, also leaving the sides of your garden and under hedges unweeded , don't 'tidy' up everything, The wildlife like hedgehogs need cover.

When we moved here the last people had used nasty sprays but there were loads of slugs and snails, now hardly any. We do feed our stray cays and the wildlife with catfood though!!

Oh St. John's Wort is very hardy, rabbits and slugs leave it alone, also the common sage is good. Agree about geranium's , pelargoniums not so much but they aren't too bad in my garden.

I just remembered that with pots if you smear all round the tops with Vaseline type stuff, that keeps them off.

Gazania and mesembryanthemum don't seem to get to munched.

A hare bounced into our garden just now!!! it hasn't eaten anything!! I thought it was a chihauhau (sp?) with long ears first. We've been here for 14 years and never seen one in the garden!

Whatever you do, don't even think about lupins.

Voice of bitter experience here.

Lupins are OK once they are big enough. I have done no slug management this year (nematodes in previous years) and my 3 are flourishing!