Hi Folks
I like Red Hot Pokers if you remove the flowers at the right time you get a endless supply all summer long.
A generous pinch of Fish bone and blood mixed with a pinch of Phosphate of Ammoania and a good watering brings out the most gorgouse Olive Green leaves I have ever seen. ( a very Good watering or you will burn the Plant) place round base of plant.

Despite terrible White Fly Problems Thankfully I do not have Slug and Snail Problems due to my large pond and its large family of Frogs and Toads who eat slugs and snails has a main diet.

My Asiatic Lillys are lovely but once again these were prone to pests
in the shape of a Bright Red Square shaped beatle called
The Japanese lilly beatle and this thing just devastated the leaves of the plant.
These are not a plant found in a typical Cottage Garden. But they are stunning plants with great flowers. But come often with a pest in the shape of a Red Beatle Square in body and very tough in respects that they are immune to almost everything one can spray at them.

I have now got rid of the pest simple by looking out for the beatle while Im in the garden. They are quite active during the Day if I see one i pick it off the plant with a pair of tweezers and throw it in the fish pond where my fish then have a meal.
I have caught so many in this fashion I have now killed off all the mating pairs so I think Im Japanese red beatle free. I have dug up around the base of the lillys in order to kill off any Eggs that may have been laid early this year.

This process of drowning the Japanese Red Beatle is the only effective way I have found of erradicating the pest from my lovely Lillys . if anyone on this thread have problems with this pest but dont have a Fishpond a bucket of water without fish is just has effective for these insects are helpless in water. Tweezers are the best way of picking these creatures up for if you drop them they fall to the ground belly up and you cant find them.