In message , Sacha
writes
....are poking their noses through the soil!

We had some beautiful allium christophii (father's day present):
magnificent the first year, then all different - large, medium, small -
last summer, but the minute the leaves poked up every bit of them (just
the leaves) was devoured by slugs. I suppose that must mean that that
will have been the end of them?

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Klara, Gatwick basin