Calling All gardeners

Authors
Chris Buckle
Issue
14
Page
3

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 macrantia
Tanacetum coccineum
Thalictrum aquilegifolium
Tradescantia virginiana
Tropaeolum species
Verbascum species

Ornamental grasses & sedges