Hi Iain, Welcome here, from Swedens west coast, I usually just lurk around, but I was interested in this "central Scottish Highlands where we are glad not to have to deal with Lily beetle" How come you don't have lily beetles? We have lots here, we're about the same Latitude as Inverewe, is that South of you? My method for dealing with them is to pick them off and stamp on them. We have a plague of slugs, luckily they don't seem to eat lilies too badly, but they enjoy Cypripediums, we stamp on the slugs too. Our Colchicum are still flowering, thats about it. /Neil