slugs

The Eaten Plants

| Flower Roberts

I am having to learn what works in Zone 5. The deer are not the only foes here on the mountain. There’s a new slug in town and I’m gonna beer it!

Little Slug Tiki Bars

I have purchased slug traps. I may do experiments to see which brand of beer is preferred. I do hope they turn out to be cheap drunks, so I do not have to sacrifice my Blue Moons. I will do what I must.

Slug Tiki Bar

The slugs are eating the top of that pink bee balm that caused my latest hip dislocation. Talk about adding insult to injury!

‘Balmy Rose’ Bee Balm slug food

My only basil plant has been demolished. When I moved the pot, there was a slug sleep-over in progress underneath.

Slug on basil

It seems slugs are eating this Brunnera. I have not witnessed this, so plan to come out after dark to investigate. It too will be surrounded by Little Green Slug Tiki Bars.

‘Sea Heart’ Brunnera macrophylla PP24684

The deer have slowed their snacking on my flowers. This could be due to Deerscram, RepelsAll or their preference for watermelon. This experiment has no control group, so no cause can be determined.

The deer ate all the red part of that watermelon.

That’s my report from Zone 5. I am happy to announce that I can safely leave the porch due to the new all-terrain wheels on my walker.

Walker on the loose.

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It is a Different World Here in Zone 5

| Flower Roberts

I brought up some ‘Lucifer’ Crocosmias to put in our mountain garden, because the deer never ate the blooms in our Zone 7 gardens.


The night before the planned photo shoot featuring a perfectly shaped stand,  the deer here came through and beheaded most of the clump.

Mostly beheaded Lucifer

There is a new type of slug here. Great!



I will be switching to blogging about nature instead of battling it when I fully recover. I have been at war too long. I will always want nature to win, despite my dreams of gorgeous flowers and tasty herbs.

My family sent me photos from home of my flowers. Here are two plants thriving in my absence.

Double Tiger lilies
‘Peachie’s Pick’ Stokes aster

FLOW switching tactics