Rabbit problem

not really. there are lots of plants which are poisonous to rabbits but that doesn't stop them eating said plants.

maybe plant spring greens as a deep border so that they'd be full before they got to your main planting...

if they are really determined you are unlikely to be able to put them off. why not make them welcome?

Now that's a suggestion - poison them!
Sorry granbunny - but they're not welcome, not only plants but holes in the lawn too sometimes. Perhaps it's the penalty we pay for living in the depths of the country

fence your boundary down to about six feet?
or just accept them as your neighbours.

I like granbunny responding to a 'rabbit problem' thread. (when you think a couple of nights ago.....)

Sorry granbunny.

i'm paranoid, jingl. i thought it was aimed at me...

That is very strange - there are dozens of rabbits hurtling round the fields here and we watch them from the balcony in the mornings. Our garden is completely open to any creature that cares to pop in and we have never had a problem.

Do you have something especially tasty that attracts them?

It may of course be that our garden is such a mess anyway that we would not notice if they had been nibbling! My argument is that a formal tidy garden would look out of place in this setting - that's my excuse anyway.

I like it! That's why I'm having a wildflower meadow! My neighbour isn't so keen though as she says it means that she will get more weeds!

I did wonder Grannyb. I bet you did!

Plant loads of lettuces round the outside of your garden. Then they will stuff themselves and fall asleep. (You could then go round with a sack)

There are some more sensible tips here link

We have both rabbits and deer that visit regularly, though there seemed to be fewer rabbits last year than we'd had before. Natural population boom and bust cycle, perhaps? Anyway, I'm just letting wild flowers do their thing. Cotoneasters do well, as does holly and honeysuckle (though the deer love the flowers, but some of them are out of reach as the stems wind up the trees). Dog roses also do well, foxgloves, ferns, wild raspberry and bramble. My planted heathers are coming along, albeit slowly. Marsh marigolds in the boggy bits, yellow flags, fuchsia, bluebells, pignut, orange hawkweed, violets, sage, African daisies. Over a hundred species of plant and I haven't even started on the grasses and lichens and mosses yet. When I've finally eradicated the Japanese knotweed, if I want some deep beds, I'll just have to deer and rabbit-proof fence them.

Oh, and flowering currant bushes grow ENORMOUS.

yoga
Do you perhaps know a local who has ferrets? And a couple of lurchers.......
Good luck.

bagitha can we see some pictures of your garden? It sounds lovely.

I have very few rabbits, but daily visits from muntjac deer and badgers. I have found the only way to stop them damaging my plants or digging up the lawn is to feed them peanuts - costs me a fortune at £49.99 a sack. They are also eaten by pheasants, squirrels, tits and pigeons, which I find entertaining.

You can borrow my horrible killer cats...particularly fond of baby rabbits this time of year

jeni, I'll get some pictures sorted next time it rains. I have lots. Just need to make them visible somewhere....

Thanks. I'd love to see them.

jeni
I would very much like to see pictures of your garden..
It does sound very nice indeed.

It would not surprise me if you are in the NGS.

No way! It's only small, about60ft x 100ft. I can't even get into it without help. So it is designed to give a nice view from the house! This is difficult as it slopes down away from the house and has been terraced!
Gary, my Gardner does the best he can, bless him!

We had a muntjac deer for a year or three. N ightmare with the bizzy lizzies, but there aren't going to be any of those now for a while.

They don't eat begonias. Or the perennials.

Or fuschias.

or foxgloves.

I must tell my neighbour. She backs onto a wood and frequently finds deer on her lawn! She also complains that they eat all her plants!

Roe deer don't seem to eat sage. They eat a few daffodils, but only a few. Lysimachia punctata is left alone, as are peonies. They like eating Japanese anemones, but the plant survives and flowers every year. I only get to see the flowers for a day or two though. Ragged robin and Red campion do well. The deer do have a nibble at red campion but only a wee nibble. Last year I had two clumps of it flowering from April to November.