The only plants that grew in my garden this year were...

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Fuscia and geraniums ! Everything else flopped. I'm not very good with names but spent over £150 on various flowers and plants including busy lizzies, marigolds etc all in containers and all eaten by slugs or just dead.

What's grown reliably and successfully in your garden this (weird weathered) summer and survived infestation of slugs ?

I’m seriously fed up. Grew lots of annuals and donated more than half to the plant stall at a charity do in the village. The slugs and snails did for most of the rest over a couple of nights. All of the asters except 1, all of the petunias that were outside, most of my lobelia , parsley and basil, all the Lupins except 2. They also had a go at one of my dahlias just after I put it outside.
Actually, fed up doesn’t really cut it.

Alliums did well, geraniums & rose going strong, I have some daisy type things which are doing ok, if a bit diminished from last year. Planted a mulberry tree which is doing well and a silver birch. The old apple tree has a massive crop of apples which I think the parakeets will decimate. Got some accidental potatoes. Pinks in pots died when I went away for a week. Foxgloves did really well, loads of borage everywhere too. Sweet peas didn't do that well and look nearly over now. Lavender is starting to look lovely now.

Oh, and the indestructible, irrepressible budlia - doing well and spreading it's babies everywhere

My roses are great.
They were great last year too.
The phlox I planted is looking very wilted
The dianthus are doing well as are the hydrangeas
The pelargoniums are fine as are the geraniums.
One bay tree looks ok the other one not so good. They got the same care and attention and are at either side of the door.
My box hedges that I thought had been murdered by the box moth have renewed themselves - who knew !

Roses and lavender are doing well but everything else gave up and died. And yes to the bloody slugs, i’ve never known so many!

How did everyone’s alliums fare? I thought slugs didn’t like them but every frigging night I was picking the bastards off!

Hydrangea, wallflowers and bay doing well.

foxgloves and tulips reasonable

allium, agapanthus and delphiniums barely anything

And as for the dhalias nowhere to be seen.

Foxgloves, oxeye daisies, hebe and geraniums are doing well. I have a lot of big shrubs like hydrangeas and peonies, they’re all fine and I’m having to cut them back. Most things in my garden are already big and pretty indestructible. I take a look at my neighbours’ gardens and what they have as it’s likely to be the same soil type.

The little mint plants I bought got slugged.

Well so far I’ve lost all my salvias bar one lone specimen, my kornus kousa which I think must have gone in the late frost we had, my delphiniums, the rosemary which was surprising and the aliums in the back garden (although the ones in the front put on a good display)
roses, geraniums, campanula, hydrangeas, nepeta lavender and ranunculus all happy though. Peonies weren’t bad this year either.

Interesting - my garden is mostly perennials; not had much problem with slugs this year but aphids have been awful!
The only thing I've lost to slugs was a kniphofia lemon popsicle. Other things have a bit of slug damage but not enough to kill the plant. I haven't planted out the sunflowers yet though.
I'm in the SW.

Astroelmeria thrive in my garden, as does verbena. The verbena has gone crazy, so we've had to cut it back. We also have a very reliable geranium (3rd year running and thriving!) and black lace. These have succeeded every year, so may be worth looking into.

I can recommend incorporating nettles, brambles and bindweed into your planting scheme, they seem most slug-resistant 😖

It's only June. I've had a lot of slug-munching but there are plenty of plants they haven't bothered with at all. Alchemilla mollis, geraniums like you say, asters, campanula, hairy clover, lavender, crocosmia... Do you not have any plants they don't like??

Also in SW and aphids horrible here as well, and are attacking plants that normally unaffected . Maybe (partly) due to very few ladybugs making it through the winter?

slugs have been worse than usual, but not so bad as some posters report.

Such interesting replies! Thank you all. I'm noting names.
Interestingly my trusted Morrisons rose bush is still churning out roses and ferns are ok .
Begonias! That's the name ! Devoured. The whole lot.

Thank you poster who suggested that ground hydrangeas survive better than pot, solved that mystery for me!

Absolutely! I leave the allotment for the night, and all the actual veg has been destroyed by slugs, and replaced with the above!

My bindweed, rosebaywillowherb and dandelions have had a fabulous year, thanks in part to everything else dying to make way for them.

It's been like Mad Max Fury Road in our garden with slugs. Every night I load the fuckers onto spoons and trebuchet them over the fence onto next door's astroturf bird buffet. And yet still they come.

Weirdly, I haven't had as much trouble with slugs this year. Usually have loads. I think maybe they all drowned in the never ending rain.

Worst year ever.
Only one tomato, two brussel and sweetcorn plants have come through.
Even the raspberries were a bit crap due to the lack of sun and heat, they're usually bombproof.

My sage is trying to take over the garden. I use about five leaves a year.

I'm surprised your begonias got eaten. I stick to geraniums and giant begonias now as they seem slug proof.

Dabralor...

Wow, how have I never thought to use spoons 😂

I collect them in my hand, drop them in a salt water bucket then come in and spend about 300 hours trying to get the slime off my hands.
I'm really looking forward to going out with two spoons tonight now 😬

I collect them in my hand, drop them in a salt water bucket then come in and spend about 300 hours trying to get the slime off my hands. It’s hygroscopic, ie it attracts and holds water. That’s why it’s so difficult to wash off. Usual technique for hygroscopic stuff is to drop it in the freezer, freeze dry it, and chip it off when hard. Let us know how you get on

I find that, apart from a few slug-bait plants (sunflower, lupin for example), the main difference is between fresh soft growth and tough old growth. Hence why perennials that have been in the ground a few years do better than newly planted stuff. And why you lose the new shoots on clematis.

Also makes sense not to overwater and not to over-fertilise.

I think my sweet peas have been confused by the lack of sun. They're showing very little inclination to grow upwards. I always ring them, but these don't seem interested in climbing at all, they're just flopping randomly.

They ate my foxgloves too. Thought they were supposed to be poisonous