Quick few pics,,,

that oxalis and the Sisyrinchium are really pretty, sorry to hear about the slug damage, i went out late the other night to water and could not believe how many snails there were, if i had collected them i reckon there would have been half a bucket full ~ perhaps i should sell them to a french restaurant??

Nice pics SL. I check under the rim of my pots every day, as thats where they hide.

Urgh, yes...it has been a nice wet spring for the slimy things, SL...they're having a field day... :(

You could eat them yourself, Sticki - I'll be happy to send the instructions my old neighbour gave me about how to deal with 'em...dee-lish with a bit of garlic...some of Lulu's fresh stuff would make it even better!!! ;)

That's a wonderful photo of the hoverfly, SL! :)))
...not so keen on oxalis, myself (it does get around)...but, beautiful pics, none the less! :)

sorry karen, i like cooking and eating but not snails ~ too chewy.

great stuff SL ! great hoverfly pic too

Then you're over-cooking them, Sticki...they have to have the 'squelch' factor! lolol! ;)

Thanks Sticki, Cinders i'm out every night looking with a torch for snails/slugs but missed this one completely..
Thanks Paul, Karen not to keen on garlic snail tried once that was enough for me :-))

Don't start the great snail debate again Karen..:)) Poor Myron. I have always done the killing by hand and foot and throwing the buggers as far as I can. But used slug pellets for the first time last week...They are brilliant, was like a massacre.

You are very careful observer. In contrast to me, you often notice so small flowers and plants and inhabitants of soil :))

This comment above belongs, of course, to gentle personality of Surreylad, not to the Mackie Messer.

Lol...Katarina, it was them or my Ligularia..The greenfly next.

Lol Pimms,
Thanks Kat, yes i like to look about the garden, and i read outside and have my camera at hand, still trying to get these frogs in my pond but they Hop it :-)))

Your karma is definitive.

Thank you :-)

More super photos. Your garden is very colourful :o)

Lovely blooms SL....ain't it a b***er when those slimy creatures do something like that. I HATE them!!!!!
I found a clump of daisies in the grass today and there was around 10 slugs chomping away - the only pleasing thing about that was that it was 10 less eating the hostas!!!!!

I wish slugs had never been invented!??

Bet it was some slimy bloke who invented them Sticki :))))

Certainly someone slimy not necessarily male! You don't want to know what I call them when I catch them, same goes for lily beetles.

Lovely blog SL amazing pic of te hoverlfy!!!!
Slugs? sont talk to me about slugs and snail..grrrrrrrr! SICK OF THEM..IM GOING OUT SOON WITH A TORCH..HAVE PELLETS DOWN TOO. spRAYED THE TREE WHERE THE SNAILS LIVE WIHT CIDER VINEGAR..WAS TOLD IT WOULD HELP///

The frogs eat the slugs and I stomp the snails, I do not ever feel guilty, why should I when they don`t feel anything except full when eating my plants.
Lovely pics S`lad...

Lol Surreylad@ note about karma this time belongs to Pimpernel. Sorry, must have used names in my comments.

all looks great fantastic pictures:)))))

I've been waiting until the rain has definitely stopped - and it has (I think) - to put down slug pellets. There's something really disgusting about the hairy blue mould that they turn into during a warm, wet spell....! yuk!

pic no2 fave

Thanks Hywel, Scottish yes little b***ers arn't they...
Thanks Pixi, linclass,Mark :-)
Cheers Stevie :-)
yes they do go a bit horrible Karen, but i have hundreds of the things here, no idea where they all come from....