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The article offers tips on how to plant hostas in Australia. It states that hostas maintenance needs are simple as long as it is kept moist in spring, one will mulch around the emerging leaves with rotted manure or sprinkling a teaspoonful of controlled-release fertiliser around each plant. It notes that the biggest task is to protect the plants from slugs and snails by placing iron-based snail bait if one has dogs or cats.

The article offers informational about the unusual, near-fluorescent slugs including the Kaputar cannibal snail and Kaputar hairy snail, of the Mount Kaputar National Park in New South Wales.