Plant for shade
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Hostas are good for shade, the flowers are insignificant but you can get nice foliage shades/colours and they come in a wide variety of varieties ( 
) and sizes.
) and sizes.Slugs love hostas and will eat the entire plant, plus containers offer good protection for slugs to live in, so slug-proof the container. There are very good reports of copper bands that go around the pot and which the slugs can't cross. Try www.greengardener.co.uk
Crushed sea shells and slug pellets, that stops the blighters !!
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how about some of these
aspidistra (leaf structure)
aucuba japonica (leaf)
box (leaf and intrseting shapes if trained)
camellia (flowers)
watermelon begonia
wintergreen (berries/flowers leaf)
skimmia japonica (flowers leaf)
magic carpet saxifrage (leaf/flowers)
i find i can never stop bloomin slugs. I dont use pellets due to the impact on wildlife, but there is a relativley new product ive used for the past couple of years which is growing success slug and snail killer. its based on aluminium sulphate and is harmless to other wildlife. You can put it on the soil of the container or pour it staright on the beasties if you go hunting them at night and it dries them up straight away. lasts for about 4-5 days if you put it on the soil and its harmless.
aspidistra (leaf structure)
aucuba japonica (leaf)
box (leaf and intrseting shapes if trained)
camellia (flowers)
watermelon begonia
wintergreen (berries/flowers leaf)
skimmia japonica (flowers leaf)
magic carpet saxifrage (leaf/flowers)
i find i can never stop bloomin slugs. I dont use pellets due to the impact on wildlife, but there is a relativley new product ive used for the past couple of years which is growing success slug and snail killer. its based on aluminium sulphate and is harmless to other wildlife. You can put it on the soil of the container or pour it staright on the beasties if you go hunting them at night and it dries them up straight away. lasts for about 4-5 days if you put it on the soil and its harmless.
Thanks for the info.
I'm with Thermo on slug control, haven't used the blue pellets for years but use the Growing Success salt .
I tried Hostas a few years ago but just ended up with fat slugs. They (the Hostas) are now in pots that have a copper band round them, that combined with the occasional evening patrol with the Growing Success salt if there is any evidence of slug attack, keeps them looking fine.
I think I may give the japonica a try this year and see what happens.
I'm with Thermo on slug control, haven't used the blue pellets for years but use the Growing Success salt .
I tried Hostas a few years ago but just ended up with fat slugs. They (the Hostas) are now in pots that have a copper band round them, that combined with the occasional evening patrol with the Growing Success salt if there is any evidence of slug attack, keeps them looking fine.
I think I may give the japonica a try this year and see what happens.
Is that like my extremely attractive 16yr old daughter, We get a shed load of testerone enhanced lads baying at our front door, apart from the shotgun, how can I repel them ?Min said:
I'll try that one Thermo, It seems I only have to draw breath at the mo tho !!!!!!Thermo said:
Srodders said:
nematode (eelworm) are great, one dose contains 6 million nematodes which seek out slugs and enter there bodies. Once inside they release a deadly infectious bacteria, which breaks down there insides to soup. All this takes up to 5 days. What a way to die......eaten alive from inside, as you move around. I feel so sorry for them
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