Pacific Northwest Gardening: list of slug-resisting plants, 1 by RickCorey_WA

RickCorey_WA wrote:

Here's a funny way to ID a plant:

"Something" grew profusely from a pack of mixed seeds. It kept coming back and popping up despite the Slug Army devouring things all around it.

So I tried looking up plants on the slug-resistant list, and found my sturdy volunteer:
Lobularia maritima 'Snow Crystals'
Sweet Alyssum, Seaside Lobularia
http://davesgarden.com/guides/pf/go/65150/

With zero effort on my part, it threw its seeds onto the sidewalk where they crawled into the crack between the sidewalk and the walls of a raised bed. This is their second or third year of spreading while thumbing their noses at slugs.

The Alyssum are the over-exposed white ones at the bottom of the shot.

Corey

This message was edited Nov 18, 2010 12:25 PM