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 ?

Nothing is growing in my house! All my houseplants are sleeping. The cherry tree, tree fern and hydrangea look good nothing else has shifted. Weird.

Good old geraniums! They're troupers. Next year I fully anticipate having nothing in my garden but geranium Rozanne and a few sedums. Maybe a geum or two.

Actually the astrantia have done well, but the crocosmia have disdainfully refused to flower despite lots of TLC. Do they like lots of sun, or something? The irises did the same, but then they always do.

The slugs this year have been absolutely bionic! They've absolutely had my fennel, and some very pretty grey-leaved perennials that I bought for my containers (but which I totally forget the name of). I was looking forward to the lovely foliage all year round, but all I've got to show for them are stumps. I planted the same out the front, where I have a gravel garden, and they've done well there. But out the back...oh dear. And my nepeta! The buggers had my nepeta!

My roses, on the other hand are out of this world!

Fuschia, hydrangea, roses. Honeysuckle has gone mental. Passion flower looking good and peonies were show winning.

According to Gardeners’ World “Foxglove leaves contain the toxin digoxin, which is used in heart medicine but which can also kill a person if taken in the wrong dose. These toxins appear to be harmful to slugs and snails, too, as they avoid eating the leaves.”.

It’s early for Crocosmia!

My hydrangeas have been savaged by the sodding slugs.

separately my mum gave me IMO the best garden tip.
she told me to spend a lot of time walking my local streets and looking at peoples front gardens to see what plants were popular / thriving in the area soil/sun/wind etc

it’s been pretty much fool proof for us…

Thistles.apparently all the veg seeds I bought this year were actually just thistle seeds
And slugs

I had similar trouble. Planted loads of seeds indoors in Feb/March. Nicotiana, Marigold, Sweet Pea, Lunaria and a small selection of veg and herbs. Everything germinated and was doing fine on windowsills and in the conservatory.

Nearly everything died when I put them outside mid-May. I think it was because of the unusually cold weather.

However, the birds & bugs did me a favour and planted a selection of wildflowers for me. I rearranged them a bit and they kept my borders looking nice (and the bees happy!) until I could start some more bedding plants. I had loads of foxgloves, campion, cranesbill and poppies.

Next year I might just leave Mother Nature to it. She's clearly better at gardening than me

Weeds. Lots of bloody weeds!! Took me bloody ages to sort it all out. Although in all fairness some did have lovely pink flowers on them and I would've left a patch in had they not been in the way of painting the fence. I also seem to have an abundance of slugs although they seem to prefer popping up in my kitchen or bathroom. I'd be more grateful to them if they'd munched their way through the weeds instead and saved me a job.

My Geraniums and ladies' mantle that I have for ground cover are enormous. I have a bleeding heart that sprung out of nowhere at Easter and has been spectacular, though is spent for the year, now. I was worried about my hydrangea because of all the wet weather but it's covered in little buds, now.

More disappointing are the campanula that seem to have vanished and the buddleia that is looking a bit peaky after growing new leaves in December/January because it was so confused by the mild weather.

I was going to say the same. Mine flower late July, with the Japanese Anemones.

I have rust on quite a few things that started during the one warm dry spell we had early in the season, also mildew on a few things that are susceptible and blackspot on a couple of roses.
We've had strong winds which have blown over or snapped several of the plants that have done well and grown tall over!

Something has felled two of my dwarf sunflowers. My tub of nemesia isn't looking great, but that's because a pigeon keeps landing in it and squashing it.

I do enjoy gardening, but this year feels like a bit of a slog! I'm hoping next month it might all look a bit happier and more filled out.

Next year I fully anticipate having nothing in my garden but geranium Rozanne and a few sedums. Maybe a geum or two.

When my DGM started to find her garden a bit harder to keep on top of, she planted one border with alternating clumps of geranium Rozanne and geum and it looked really good and just looked after itself.

Sometimes she'd put a row of something in front but not always.

Nemesia is going well, the new this year, last year's and from last year's seeds. Lovely wafts of vanilla coming off it. I would be happy with a massive border of that on one side and lavender on the other. Except of my 24 lavender plug plants there about 2 left. Metal border edging seems to help a bit with the slugs.

I've got some lovely wheat, barley and sunflowers growing underneath my non-squirrel proof squirrel proof bird feeder. I also have as of this morning 15 apples thrown underneath the apple tree with one squirrel bite taken from each apple. Which I presume is payback for the loaded water gun I've been firing at her.

Yes I did think mine were early this year, when I saw the orange sprigs start to appear. Maybe the rest will get their little green arses in gear.

Actually a few things have been early this year (those that remain uneaten). A couple of allium buds have come up already, even though it's a late-flowering variety. I don't usually see those till mid-late July. And the sedum spectabile are further along than usual.

Was it all the rain in the spring? Anyone else have early bloomers?

Slug food or deer food.

Only not eaten plants are our potatoes, tomatoes and onions.

I bought a pair of small kitchen tongs for this specific purpose. Mind you, I have to hide them very well from DH who has a history of not remembering what he has been told about why various items are in the shed not the kitchen drawer.

Snails. They nibble away at the stem at ground level till it falls

I've given up. I've got some lovely weeds with a purple flower, but that's about it!

If it's lovely, if you like it, it's not a weed. Even if it's a weed.

I always have trouble with them and don't like to use pellets, so mostly I grow stuff that slugs and snails don't like. Think roses, fuschias, geraniums, geums and some campanula varieties. And stuff they do like, I grow in pots with copper bands so they can't climb in. Come to that, the barbecue has copper bands on its legs so they don't shin up and put me off using the barbecue when I find them under the lid. But this year they've got into the pots and decimated tomato and chilli pepper plants, and in the beds they've had a go at pretty much everything, even sage. Bastards!

My front garden is full of toad flax. Absolutely a weed but it looks lovely and the pollinators like it. I'm waging war against all the willowherb we have this year though.

Is this Common toadflax, with the lovely big yellow and orange flowers? Lucky you! Or Purple toadflax (which also comes in pink)? There are other toadflaxes, but those are the two showy ones.