Plants Slugs Don’t Like to Eat

Stop the slugs eating flowers in your yard.

There are some beautiful plants that slugs don’t like to eat. Here is a planting tip that you may find really helpful if you are really plagued by the garden pest slug.

Control planting as a defense mechanism!

You probably don’t think so at the moment, but slugs are rather picky about what they eat. If you arrange your flower beds with careful planning before planting, you could protect some of the plants that are more attractive to slugs. Installing barrier plantings with plants that repel slugs would definitely be to your advantage.

It has been discovered that the astringent smell of Astrantia foliage is not to their liking. Slugs don’t like to eat Astrantia, nor do they want to pass through a row of them.

Astrantia ‘Ruby Wedding’

Most plants that stop slugs from eating your flowers won’t deal with the same planting conditions as hostas. However, this isn’t the only places gardeners have problems with slugs eating their plants. To assist you in halting the havoc in your garden or landscaping, here is a most amazing assortment of plants that slugs don’t like to eat.

Perennial Plants

Alchemilla mollis  – Lady’s Mantle

Alstroemeria – Peruvian Lily

Arabis – Rock Cress , Armeria – Sea Pink

Aquilegia – Columbine, Arabis, Armeria,

Astilbe – Feather Flower , Bergenia – Pig Squeak, Cerastium – Snow-In-Summer

Cheiranthus, Wallflower, Crocosmia – Montbretia

Dianthus – Carnations/Pinks, Dicentra – Bleeding Heart

Digitalis – Foxglove

Echinacea -  Coneflower

Euphorbia – Cushion Spurge, Ferns, Ornamental Grasses

Geranium – Hardy Geranium/Cranesbill, Hemerocallis – Daylily

Heuchera – Coral Bell

Unexpected surprise … Hostas are plants slugs don’t like to eat!

The green or gold leaf hostas including the variegated forms of these colored leaf perennials are a slugs idea of smorgasbord delights. The waxy coated leaves of this blue hosta are plants that slugs don’t like to eat.

Hosta Bressingham Blue

Iberis – Candy Tuft, Iris, Lamium – Spotted Dead Nettle, Lavender,

Leucanthemum – Shasta Daisy, Nepeta – Catmint

Paeonia – Peony Tree and Peony Bush

Penstemon – Beard Tongue, Phlox subulata – Creeping Phlox

Phlox paniculata – Garden Phlox, Polemonium – Jacob’s Ladder

Pulmonaria – Lungwort, Rudbeckia – Black-Eyed Susan, Salvia – Meadow Sage

Scabiosa – Pincushion Flower, Sedum – Stonecrop

Stachys – Lamb’s Ears

Thalictrum – Meadow Rue, Verbascum – Mullein

Veronica – Speedwell, Vinca minor – Periwinkle

Hardy Shrubs & Vines

Azalea, Camellia, Ilex – Holly

Hydrangea, Potentilla, Rhododendron

Rosa – Roses, Viburnum – Snow Ball Bush

Slug control with plant selection is continual.

You will be able to enjoy hostas with no holes in the leaves after all when choosing the waxy coated blue hosta plants. Just remember that slugs are there for the moisture and the food. Space your plants farther apart and you take away the conditions they prefer. This allows light and airflow to change the environment in your planting beds.

Learning about the different approaches to getting rid of slugs in your garden can be really helpful to protect the plants that you love as much as the garden slug does. You’ll find all methods used to control slugs, both commercial and homemade discussed in Secrets of a Slug-Free Garden here on Lost In The Flowers.