Problem-proof plants
THE four-letter-word moments of gardening tend to come from time and money spent on plants that are ruined by pests or diseases. Waking up to find seedlings gobbled by slugs or discovering the young leaves of perennials eaten by rabbits is miserable, as is seeing a climber caked in aphids or a hedge dusted with white powdery mildew.
Thankfully, there are plenty of stress-free plants that are rarely plagued by pests and diseases. If slugs are your nemesis, grow woolly-leaved stachys and pulmonaria, tough-leaved eryngium and crocosmia, and poisonous aconitum and foxgloves. Slugs also slide past ferns, grasses and roses, and seem to dislike several
