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  • Nanny BeachNanny Beach Posts: 8,719
    I love you Hosta 💖. Could I pick your brains,please do slugs/, 🐌 prefer certain types of HOsta? I have several in a permanent shady area,never scoffed, different area flower just about to come out,they scoffed through the stem,then the next stem,then the flower
     Old man went out every night, bucket collection,and I might add,my best Himalayan pink salt, they're still alive the next day. The plant is now almost gone
  • Hostafan1Hostafan1 Posts: 34,889
    @Nanny Beach, they certainly seem to. Some of mine are shredded whilst near neighbours are relatively untouched. I've never researched if it's the same varieties every year, or if they just latch onto one and hang about each day to feast at night.
    Devon.
  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    I have Hadspen's Blue in the front garden ... I take no especial care of it ... it is surrounded by lush planting where slugs and snails could lurk, but it's never spoiled by molluscs ... whereas Blue Angel in the back garden might just as well be lace curtains  :/

    Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.





  • steephillsteephill Posts: 2,841
    Now that all those silly sports are over ;)  quizzy Mondays are back again! Looking forward to more of Victoria's arch comments and Paxman's scorn.
  • Hostafan1Hostafan1 Posts: 34,889
    Dovefromabove said:
    I have Hadspen's Blue in the front garden ... I take no especial care of it ... it is surrounded by lush planting where slugs and snails could lurk, but it's never spoiled by molluscs ... whereas Blue Angel in the back garden might just as well be lace curtains  :/
    My Blue Angel opposite the kitchen window is almost untouched
    Devon.
  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    Blue Angel 


    Hadspen’s Blue


    and yes @Hostafan1  
    I’ve got some weeding to do … 🙄 

    Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.





  • Hostafan1Hostafan1 Posts: 34,889
    ouch
    Devon.
  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    My Angel has been much worse in the past ... it's up on a high part of the bank, fronted by sleepers, and the hedgehogs can't get there ...  :/

    Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.





  • Nanny BeachNanny Beach Posts: 8,719
    We can't leave hedgehog gaps,our (toy) dog slithers under the smallest gap.not sure if the labels are still in mine, will check
  • B3B3 Posts: 27,505
    My hostas are doing well but there's a few holes. I moved all the pots and searched every nook and cranny that I could think of. I can't find the perpetrator.
    I know I could search at night but who knows what else is lurking out there. Definitely things I'd rather not know about.😳
    In London. Keen but lazy.
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