What's eating my fire and ice hosta?

Fire and Ice Hosta, with its striking white center and green margins, suffers slug and snail damage to its soft leaf tissue more than most hostas due to the tender white leaf centers. Deer readily target it. Rabbits clip new shoots. Vine weevil grubs attack roots. Slug control and deer deterrents are the twin priorities.

Holes concentrated in the white-centered leaf area, which has thinner, more tender tissue than the green margins Sprinkle iron phosphate pellets at crown level; use a grit mulch to impede slug movement; set beer traps between plants

Entire stems and leaves browsed; high-contrast foliage seems to attract deer attention Apply capsaicin or egg-based spray repellents; motion-activated sprinklers are highly effective deterrents

Clean-cut stems at soil level, particularly targeting young emerging growth in early spring Install wire-mesh fencing around bed perimeter with underground skirt to prevent burrowing; use rabbit repellent granules as a supplementary measure