I’m glad it’s not just me @newbie77! Which plants do you have that they leave alone? I think they are mostly eating my tulip leaves, at the moment my astrantia, salvia and aster seem to be ok. I did have a hosta but that quickly came out as they just devoured it!
Not only me that is suffering from slug damage then! They keep munching my dahlias even if I raise them off the ground (they are only in 5L pots). No snails trails, nothing! They have to be in the pot but can’t find them. So elusive. Haven’t seen a single one.
@Nollie I know you have Blush Noisette. Granted it is new in a 5L pot but do the buds really start out this tiny:
@agnasia, I don't have many perennials actually. Asters, penstemon, Sedums, shrubby salvias and hardy geraniums are all good without any protection. Rest of my garden is shrubs and roses.
I have hostas, in pots on decking but I put a few blue pills on those occasionally and those manage to look good for couple of months before being shredded.
@Alfie_ -- just to say I have blush noisette in a pot ( not a 5 litre one!)and for me the buds are in big clusters but tiny , and the blooms are similarly small but in large ( and more or less continuous) clusters. I like it as a contrast to the bigger-flowered roses. No idea if the bloom size is bigger in the ground.
@HarryWhite, I have Lavender with roses. These are common angustifolia type either Hidcote or Munstead, I can never remember which is which. Although these are in a separate bed fronting up the rose bed, the soil is essentially the same stony, clay based unimproved soil. Other than clipping them close following flowering, I do nothing to them, no feeding, no watering, no mulching. As someone said above, they are self tending and thrive on neglect
Nothing new today. I do have half a dozen roses still to open, but meanwhile I’ve been moving pots around and playing with colour combinations.
Got my LEH standard installed and properly staked. I think I quite like the contrast with the petite purple blooms of Violet Hood and the adjacent burgundy leaves of the loropetalum. Will have to wait and see what it looks like with Buff Beauty and Lady Hillingdon in the background, might be a colour car crash!
I’m also reserving judgment about Falstaff between the standard and the potted LEH until Falstaff fills out a bit and I can see the effect more..
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@Desi_in_London don’t worry it’s going into the ground soon 😂 I’ve been waiting for the obelisk I want to grow it up to arrive which should be tomorrow.
@newbie77 those are all the perennials I have and love. Penstemon and asters just flowers for SO long. I’ve recently bought some Dakota Burgundy ones.
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I have hostas, in pots on decking but I put a few blue pills on those occasionally and those manage to look good for couple of months before being shredded.
@Alfie_, might be under the rim of the pot.
I have Lavender with roses. These are common angustifolia type either Hidcote or Munstead, I can never remember which is which. Although these are in a separate bed fronting up the rose bed, the soil is essentially the same stony, clay based unimproved soil. Other than clipping them close following flowering, I do nothing to them, no feeding, no watering, no mulching.
As someone said above, they are self tending and thrive on neglect
Got my LEH standard installed and properly staked. I think I quite like the contrast with the petite purple blooms of Violet Hood and the adjacent burgundy leaves of the loropetalum. Will have to wait and see what it looks like with Buff Beauty and Lady Hillingdon in the background, might be a colour car crash!
I’m also reserving judgment about Falstaff between the standard and the potted LEH until Falstaff fills out a bit and I can see the effect more..