Highs and lows - slug resistant suggestions please

[Leah2005]

Had a gap in one if my borders, noticed a perennial coming through that I'd forgotten and was pleased it would fill the space lovely. Went on hols, came home dying to see how it looked and the slugs have completely eaten it. Any recommendations for a smallish summer flowering filler that the slugs don't like? Not fuschias because I have 2 in that border. I'm probably too late to see anything come to fruition this year but planning for next year. Any ideas?

I planted a few annuals this year and the only one not to be demolished by slugs is next to a giant St John's Wort.

@Cerebelle ooh I'll have to look at that. I was thinking about companion planting - also struggling with black fly.

They seem to leave snapdragons, wallflowers, geraniums & sweet William alone in my garden. I can give you a long list of things that have been decimated though!

Use Strulch together with Nematodes. I still do my night tours, but they no longer hurt my most vulnerable plants (Touch wood).

Salvia?

They've not eaten my hollyhocks.

Geranium, Japanese anemone, primula vialli, geum, feverfew, and roses have survived so far this year in my slug and snail infested garden...my molluscs usually even eat the plants which they are supposed to hate including astrantia and pulmonaria.

I'd made a list of astrantia (one of my favourites anyway), geranium, salvia and lavender.
I'd forgotten geum @Imicola - that's one of my favourites too now added to the list.
@Return2thebasic I have never heard of strulch unless that's a typo for mulch . Off to Google now.

@Decorhate I love snap dragons too - haven't used those for years

Strulch is a new formulation which has been advertised heavily in the RHS magazine for the last year or so.

@Leah2005

I'd made a list of astrantia (one of my favourites anyway), geranium, salvia and lavender. I'd forgotten geum *@Imicola* - that's one of my favourites too now added to the list. *@Return2thebasic* I have never heard of strulch unless that's a typo for mulch . Off to Google now.

It's Strulch brand for straw mulch which has been mineralised. Apparently slugs and snails don't like that. It doesn't stop them completely, as I just found out. But it does reduce/discourage substantially.

@Return2thebasic so perhaps using that and beer traps might be sufficient. I'd bought a beautiful dahlia and then thought oh bugger, can't put that in because the slugs will eat. I'd left it standing in the bare patch and forgot about it. Went to move it later and there were two massive slugs, a few babies (luckily all under the pot) and a snail in the pot!

[quote Leah2005]@Return2thebasic so perhaps using that and beer traps might be sufficient. I'd bought a beautiful dahlia and then thought oh bugger, can't put that in because the slugs will eat. I'd left it standing in the bare patch and forgot about it. Went to move it later and there were two massive slugs, a few babies (luckily all under the pot) and a snail in the pot![/quote]
Really wide copper ring tapes work well on pot to detet big slugs - I taped twice to make it wider. Small ones could still cross but less damaging.

I saw a video online showing the beer trap highly ineffective. Most of them just have a drink and leave. And there's a risk you are attracting slugs from other areas to join the party...

I recently planted a rose and a hydrangea next to each other for a bit of summer colour- the slugs have decimated the hydrangea despite my best efforts to deter/collect them at night, however the rose has remained untouched by them. They also seem to leave my recently planted gaura lindheimeri alone, which are in full bloom right now and go right through to the autumn.