hosta fortunei aureomarginata

I love hostas and would like some near my pond, they always fail miserably, those slimey slugs always win, whats your secret Wagger?

This is one of the old ones and still one of the best.

I have had Hostas growing in a wild garden and the slugs hardly touched them. Yet if you try them in a prominent place, the slugs seem to delight in hammering them. I don't know what the answer is on a large scale. For just one or two, try surrounding them with broken eggshells or cinders (anything small and sharp); slugs do not like 'em.

I think the frogs have helped this year. That and the fact that they've been bingeing on my lupins.

On 'Springwatch' (BBC 2) they were saying that slugs were scarce this year, I don't know why this is but I am glad, my 'Halcyon' is untouched. (S)

Tell that to my lupins, Vincent They have very little in the way of leaves left.

Nasty, Wagger, I had only one Lupin and it went A.O.L. during the winter.

Oops! The never even get theire noses above ground in my garden so I've started doing them as biennials, Vincent, that way I can have them every year - even then I've just noticed one head hanging down - eaten immediately below the flower by a slug or snail. I'll be out there on the warpath with a torch tonight.

You remind of one of those scenes in a Hammer horror film where they go out with flaming torches to kill the vampire.
I don't think they pick them by hand, though

Lol. Do they dump vampires in pots of salty water Vincent?