Rabbit problem

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

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

Oh, and flowering currant bushes grow ENORMOUS.

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.

There are some more sensible tips here link

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)

I did wonder Grannyb. I bet you did!

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!

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

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

Sorry granbunny.

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

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

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?