They don't go near my Lambs Ear, or Salvia like Hot Lips, Galardia, Lavender. For the first year ever, I had them on my bush Chrysanthemum, never touched them before but the slugs and snails were really large.
Salvias aren't hardy here either, apart from S. caradonna. By 'lamb's ear', I presume you mean Stachys @Gwenr ? They don't touch that, although I don't grow it. Too wishy washy for me. They won't touch lavender, but I don't grow it now either as I dislike it intensely.
It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
Salvias aren't hardy here either, apart from S. caradonna. By 'lamb's ear', I presume you mean Stachys @Gwenr ? They don't touch that, although I don't grow it. Too wishy washy for me. They won't touch lavender, but I don't grow it now either as I dislike it intensely.
We have our own eco climate and for the past few years once the rain has cleared it's like the Mediterranean. I grow anything that will encourage the 🐝 and butterflies, in fact all insects are encouraged, that's why I was cross when the slugs devastated the Lupins. We are on water meters and yet the past two years there was a chance we would get a ban on using a hose due to water levels falling. I did try beer traps a few years ago, but I think every slug from far afield came.
To be fair, for all I complain about the slugs and snails, they don't ruin much of what I grow. I would love to be able to grow dahlias in the borders but my planting is too dense so they catch a lift from neighbouring plants.
It's the cutting patch and veg beds where they drive me really mad. It's all the effort put into seedlings being munched away in a single night which is heartbreaking.
Yes - dianthus don't get touched here, or hardy geraniums, hardy fuchsias [I don't grow the other kind] V.bon, Peonies, chives and feverfew. I was being slightly flippant when I said there weren't many that don't get eaten. I grow a lot of shrubs, which aren't affected, and tough perennials. Lychnis is fine, J. anemones, Cammassias, Liatris, Astrantia, Heleniums, Euphorbias, Acteas, Dicentras, lots of grasses are fine too. Gauras don't survive the winters either, unless we have a 'mild' one.
It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
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By 'lamb's ear', I presume you mean Stachys @Gwenr ? They don't touch that, although I don't grow it. Too wishy washy for me.
They won't touch lavender, but I don't grow it now either as I dislike it intensely.
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
I did try beer traps a few years ago, but I think every slug from far afield came.
It's the cutting patch and veg beds where they drive me really mad. It's all the effort put into seedlings being munched away in a single night which is heartbreaking.
Gauras don't survive the winters either, unless we have a 'mild' one.
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...