bedding plants ,slugs

Petunias don't seem to suffer too badly from slugs. Sunflowers, on the other hand, are eaten down to the ground!

They dont seem to like Geraniums either, maybe it is the smell they give off. They do eat my marigolds though so i have to be vigilant and go on slug patrol!!!

Another vote for begonias. Common or not the slugs reallly don’t like them.

Slugs have always eaten any marigolds though I don’t know what nationality they were. (The flowers that is, have the slugs down as native to this isle). I plant lots of begonias as the slugs appear to leave them alone. I do realise that some people regard begonias as common. I love ‘em, bold, brassy and above all uneaten.

They don’t seem to bother with lobelia but always demolish my French marigolds. I keep meaning to try English ones.

All of them! The more succulent and leafy the more they like to guzzle them. However the less disturbance the plant gets, the less attractive to slugs. Slugs go for injured plants.
If you must plant bedding plants put down a beer trap or two or if you can be bothered, go out with a torch now and pick off the slugs with a gloved hand.

I've been told that they dislike marigolds. At my old home, I planted a lot of French marigolds and the slugs did leave them alone but just rampaged past them and ate everything else .

When we moved here, there were a lot of English marigolds randomly scattered throughout the garden. They look lovely and cheerful and I've seen no evidence of slug activity. The marigolds are staying!