Summer bedding plants.

[maggie01]

Can anyone recommend any bedding plants that the slugs are not too partial to.

Do they like Gazanias?

[andyjevs]

Gazanias should be ok but will only open when the sun's out.

I think slugs will have a munch on most bedding plants but you can try phlox, nemesia, verbena, antirrhinum, lobelia, allysum, asters, impatiens, begonias and geraniums

Probably more but they're off the top of my head

[maggie01]

Thanks Andy. Busy lizzies are a no no. The go overnight. Looks like i'll have to have geraniums. I can't put slug pellets down because of my two dogs. The animal friendly ones don't do much.

[andyjevs]

Have you thought about slug pubs.....small pots (ice cream mousse tubs are ideal) with some cheap beer in (slugs aren't fussy alcoholics !!!) buried in the garden in stretegic places where the dogs can't get.
You'll have to empty the pots daily as they catch an amaizing abount of slugs...but beware, dead slugs that have drowned like this absolutely stink.....they make me retch !!!!!

Good luck

[logman]

At the risk of echoing some of andy's suggestions, i hope this will serve to reinforce some of his recomendations. Gazanias are in fact one of the best for slug resistance, as the leaves contain an unpleasant taisting chemicle. Other good ones- primula, alyssum, anirhinum, forget-me-not, wallflowers, flox, bellis, violas, daffs. Note (spring & summer bedding)

One i have always found reliable, and my garden is like a magnet for slugs, is Begonias* (not the fiberous rooted ones but yhe bedding types) No swiss cheese impesions with them so far, although they do look very succulent. All the Best

[gucciman]

in all my years of gardening i have never ever had an impatien eaten by a slug

[maggie01]

gucciman. All I have left of impatients are the stems. I plant those in pots now. Thanks for all the replies. I think I will go with Gazanias as the sun is in the garden most of the day and where it is a bit shady I will think of something else. Many thanks.