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Mary, I finally gave up on lupins and delphinums. The little beasts practically had them stripped before they were in the ground  Poppies (not Icelandic) have been decimated as well and the Aubretia didn`t stand a chance. Hmm, do you think that the slug palate differs according to where they live?  I thought they always lived in the garden... Disappears back into potting shed before the hail of garden tools begins |
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« Reply #1036 on: 18:18:12, 12-06-2007 » |
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I too use copper tape round pots to keep the snails and slugs at bay - it really does work. And having discovered that they won't eat snapdragons I plant lots out every year. Pelargoniums too. And I grow wonderfully prickly teasels - which seed themselves all over the place - nothing would want to eat them! Busy Lizzies usually survive too. I have lots of different kinds of geraniums (I mean the herbaceous perennials) all over the garden as they're never attacked. Montbretia/crocosmia too. Why oh why don't snails graze on grass? That would save on the mowing too! I once read that daffodils are poisonous but mine are always eaten by the snails.  |
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« Reply #1037 on: 18:26:24, 12-06-2007 » |
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Hi Mort,
Ok then here's Lynn's list of plants that aren't eaten by slugs and snails:
Heuchera, Tiarella (Iron Butterfly if you can get it), Alchemilla, Diascia, Phormium, Cordyline, Hardy Geraniums, Lavender, anything really scented, Nepeta (when it's got big enough to be unpalatable), Conifers, Holly, Matthiola bicornis (Night scented stock) and Clematis
(more to follow later after some thinking about what we had in the old garden in Suffolk!)
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« Reply #1038 on: 18:34:56, 12-06-2007 » |
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Hi Mort,
Ok then here's Lynn's list of plants that aren't eaten by slugs and snails:
..... and Clematis
Clematis???  My clematis flowers are like doileys!!! Mine's Nelly Moser - perhaps you grow varieties slugs and snails don't care for? |
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« Reply #1039 on: 18:38:32, 12-06-2007 » |
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MabelJane (happy birthday, by the way),
Our Clematis were: Alannah, Pearl d'Azur and Montanna (unknown sort) - the Montanna was an early one which flowered before the snails woke up from hibernation!
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« Reply #1040 on: 18:48:14, 12-06-2007 » |
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Jonathan, thanks for that. I`d forgotten about the hardy geraniums I have that have escaped unscathed. But the heuchera are consistently clobbered. Sigh. I think you`re right about the more scented of plants. However I think slugs/snails have a `sweet tooth` (or whatever it is that they chomp with). I have lost count of the mint plants that they have stripped bare overnight. They`re not too keen on thyme though. Hooray! |
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« Reply #1041 on: 18:55:23, 12-06-2007 » |
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They ate my nepeta/catmint. It never had a chance to grow big. Perhaps the snails do vary, though it doesn't seem very likely somehow. My friend who lives a couple of miles away can't keep a Busy Lizzie (I hate that name), but mine are all right, though I always feel it's a bit feeble to grow them because they are so easy! My daffodils aren't touched, or tulips. Alliums are fine, but then they are only onions, really. I have a lot of yellow loosestrife, and meadowsweet, which I know some people would call a weed, but it flourishes (unstoppable as crocosmia!) and smells wonderful.  |
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« Reply #1042 on: 19:00:03, 12-06-2007 » |
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They won't eat my bamboo - but that's no good if you're plagued by pandas. Damage to foliage I don't mind is the leaf-cutter bee's. I have yet to observe a leaf-cutter bee cutting leaves though.  Looks as though she's carrying a rolled up newspaper! |
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« Reply #1043 on: 19:08:32, 12-06-2007 » |
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They ate my nepeta/catmint. It never had a chance to grow big.  We've just bought lots of nepeta for the cats - so far I haven't seen any snail damage. Eddie chewed a great chunk off when we gave it to him on Sunday for his 1st birthday! (He was born on little R's 10th birthday.) ....a Busy Lizzie (I hate that name), OK, impatiens then!  I have a lot of yellow loosestrife,
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« Reply #1044 on: 19:34:50, 12-06-2007 » |
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No problem Mort, hope that was useful! ...or whatever it is that they chomp with). I have lost count of the mint plants that they have stripped bare overnight It's called a radula - here's a picture:  |
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« Reply #1045 on: 20:30:51, 12-06-2007 » |
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Cut to a coven of slugs, dancing naked around a brazier. Steathily an army of snails arrived, four hours later.
"OK Sisters" said their Leader Sylvie Snail of the Order of Slime which (Praise the Lord) May Never Dry Out "Givvus that list wot you have compiled from these innocents on these 'ere MBs of what we is partial to 'aving a nosh of but may have missed, we snails need the information to wreak further havoc"
"Shan't!" said Shane the leader of the Slugs "Find your own source of information, tonight we are on a Commando Raid to decimate some Lupins, but I will say, yeah, verily unto you, keep clear of the copper tape. It can give you a nasty shock."
"Ooh, get him" giggled the snails "Wouldn't say boo to a Delphinium before, but now he's really come out of 'is shell!" And with that they waved their antenae around in helpless laughter and some of them cross-fertilised themselves. "Oops, sorry about that they murmured, to themselves, how was it for us?"
In the meantime the Slugs had kidnapped Jonathan's radula.
"Blimey, look at the length of that" gasped the assembled audience, stunned into silence.
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« Reply #1046 on: 21:43:10, 12-06-2007 » |
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"Help" gasped Jonathan as he was led slowly away "there's only one thing that can save me now: Tristram and his amazing theremin"
"No he can't" said Shane sarcastically "we've de-theremined him and left him miles away on a train platform. Hahahahaha" (he said evilly)
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« Reply #1047 on: 21:54:27, 12-06-2007 » |
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Howver, Sweet Young Jonathan of the Two Handed Technique said Sylvie of the Order of Slime, we need you. The Sisters of Slime (Oh look at their atennae go) need a hand, or two with their SatNav. Have you a Postcode for Catnip?
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« Reply #1048 on: 23:08:43, 12-06-2007 » |
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Have you a Postcode for Catnip?
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« Reply #1049 on: 00:13:31, 13-06-2007 » |
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For the first time in an awfully long time, I feel moved to post my nightly benediction on the waffle thread.
Good night and god bless
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