Are Geraniums Slug Proof?

Frank99

Heard Geraniums are resistant to slug attacks so considering getting bedding plants in the form of geraniums this year as a result.
Can you get blue Geranium bedding plants?:think:

Linda32

Yes, Isn't there one call Johnson's Blue? Don't think you'll have a problem with slugs.

Loanranger

Johnson's Blue is not a bedding plant.

elsien

Just as an example:

https://www.thompson-morgan.com/flowers-plants-shrubs/popular-plants/geranium-pelargonium

Linda32

It isn't what I'd call a bedding plant either, OP asked for a blue geranium, Johnson's blue is a geranium.

Davesnave

People ask about 'geraniums' when they really mean 'pelargoniums


In one sense it may not matter , since both types of plant are pretty slug proof, but regrettably there are no blue pelargoniums for bedding/container use.

Farway

Davesnave wrote: »

People ask about 'geraniums' when they really mean 'pelargoniums


In one sense it may not matter , since both types of plant are pretty slug proof, but regrettably there are no blue pelargoniums for bedding/container use.

Sense as usual from Dave.

Thinking about it a bed of geraniums, not pelargoniums, would look lovely, both for humans and bees, plus once in never need to bother again

Of course if you like rows of soldiers as bedding this may not suit

couriervanman

Well in previous years the slugs have a picnic on my geraniums

Davesnave

Farway wrote: »

Thinking about it a bed of geraniums, not pelargoniums, would look lovely, both for humans and bees, plus once in never need to bother again

Not quite. I have a bed of geranium macrorrhizums that have gone very leggy and allowed a few weeds in, but they have been there almost 10 years. I shall have to re-plant them....sometime.


The ultimate no-work geraniums are phaeums in the grass outside our kitchen window. They come out around now, keep the bees busy, then the greenfinches come along and eat the seeds in high summer . After that, I take the brushcutter to them and they spring up and do it all again.

Problem is, with the decline in greenfinches caused by a disease, there haven't been so many takers for the seeds in recent years.