- The plant's own defense against snails
- The "tasteless" specimens
- Do we have to help the joint flower?
- Alternative for piebald gardens
Snails appear out of nowhere and pounce on our lovingly cared for plants. What has grown over many days can easily be destroyed in a few hours. But these slimy creeps are picky. Is the joint flower on your menu?
Snails don't like joint flowers
The plant's own defense against snails
Some garden plants survive a snail invasion unimpressed, even if humans do not intervene to protect them. Hardly anything remains of other plants. Why is that?
Plants are intelligent earthlings, many of them are good at defending themselves against pests. When snails approach you, they have to deal with the following defensive measures, among others:
- toxic ingredients
- inedible and indigestible substances
- hairy leaves, stinging hairs or spines
The "tasteless" specimens
Even some plants that are not poisonous and do not have anything deterrent about them are, as if by magic, spared from every plague of snails.
The beauty of the flowers does not impress the snails, they only choose the plants according to their preferred taste. Observations confirm again and again that many plant species ignore them.
Do we have to help the joint flower?
Joint flower, which botanically reads Physostegia virginiana, is a vigorous flowering perennial that has nothing to do with thorny leaves. Toxic substances are also foreign to her. Is that why she is at the mercy of the snails without our help?
No, the joint flower can keep its leaves and flowers. Unlike humans, snails don't care about them. No matter what time of year or where the flower grows, it is always slug-proof. Even if there is no "snail food" growing nearby.
Alternative for piebald gardens
Although many control measures have proven to be effective in practice, the snails still pose a threat to our plants. Until they are discovered and the measures take effect, they eat their way through the garden.
If you're constantly struggling with snail plagues, you can at least take some of your yard away by planting articulata. This step is not difficult to miss, because wonderful flowers await as a reward.