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rabbit proof plants
Heide Lenzen-Cox
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can anyone advise me what plants rabbits do not eat ?
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Heide Lenzen-Cox
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As regards edibles-virtually nothing that has a green leaf-in fact I doubt there is little in the garden that they wont touch
Sorry-not much help
I read that they don't eat hellebores. But something has eaten them
In the sticks near Peterborough
Hi Heide
I have problems deer rather than rabbits, and have found the hayloft plants website really useful. If you type "rabbit" in the search box it will come up with a list of all the plants that they mention are "rabbit resistant". As I said, my problem is deer, and their recommendations have all been left unmunched by the bambis !
I don't think there is a plant that rabbits do not like, maybe something poisonous might stand a chance. Or perhaps a sacraficial crop of something in order to divert them. Pepper dust might work or attract a fox to your garden. sorry not much help really I believe Lavender is supposed to be good but I know a woman who tried it and they ate it. She lives next door to a golf course in Blarney and still the rabbits go for her garden. How about something spikey, might just put them off if there is a more attractive alternative.
The RHS suggests the following list of plants as being rabbit resistant. Some arther good ones in there - http://apps.rhs.org.uk/advicesearch/profile.aspx?pid=209
How about trying something loud, like a gun?
Air rifle pretty efficient if you don't like noise.
In the sticks near Peterborough
Don't forget the guy who couldn't kill a captive magpie at 2 feet!
if you take a walk by a warren where Rabbits abide you will see what they don't like,which is not much.