Garden plants mainly avoided by slugs and snails
We all know the sort of damage slugs and snails can cause to our favourite garden plants. While we wish to protect our plants from such damage, as eco-friendly gardeners and conchologists, we do not wish to harm the molluscs.
Some herbaceous plants, while not immune to slugs and snails, will survive relatively unscathed in most gardens, so why not plan your garden from some of those? The following list is from Andrew Halstead in “The Garden”, April 1999, the Journal of the Royal Horticultural Society (Vol. 124 page 273)
- Acanthus mollis
- Achillea filipendulina
- Agapanthus hybrids & cultivars
- Alchemilla mollis
- Anemone hupehensis & A. x hybrida
- Antirrhinum majus
- Aquilegia species
- Armeria species
- Aster amellus, A. x frikartii &
A. x novae-angliae - Astilbe x arendsii
- Astrantia major
- Bergenia
- Centaurea dealbata & C. montana
- Corydalis lutea
- Cynara cardunculus
- Dicentra spectabilis
- Digitalis purpurea
- Erygium species
- Euphorbia species
- Foeniculum vulgare
- Fuschia cultivars
- Gaillardia aristata
- Geranium species
- Geum chiloensis
- Hemerocaulis species
- Liastris spicata
- Lysimachia punctata
- Myosotis species
- Nepeta x faassenii
- Papaver nudicaule & P. orientale
- Pelargonium
- Phlox paniculata
- Physostegia virginiana
- Polemonium foliosissimum
- Polygonum species
- Potentilla hybrids & cultivars
- Pulmonaria species
- Rudbeckia fulgida
- Salvia x superba
- Saxifraga x urbicum
- Scabiosa caucasica
- Sedum spectabile
- Sempervivum species
- Sisyrinchium species
- Solidago species
- Stachys macrantha
- Tanacetum coccineum
- Thalictrum aquilegifolium
- Tradescantia virginiana
- Tropaeolum species
- Verbascum species
- Ornamental grasses & sedges
