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16/05/2008, 7:02 sueyh Joined on 06/10/2004 62 Posts 180 Rabbit proof plants Can anyone suggest some rabbit proof plants - the bunnies in my garden have even eaten my small holly bush!!  They just love pruning my skimmia, my choisya doesn't stand a chance and almost every one of my Thuja Plicata furs have been nibbled and the roots dug.  All I seem to do is spend my time making little wire cages for the plants.  Before we moved permanently to the house I thought they were lovely "fluffy wuffy bunnies" but now I think they little indeterminate parentage bunnies! Thanks in advance Suey    Report

16/05/2008, 8:14 Albert the InfoGipsy Joined on 01/07/2006 SDF, somewhere in 56 Posts 507 Re: Rabbit proof plants Did anyone else read the title as "Rabbit proof PANTS"? Sounds like you need something well spikey round the outside of your beds. Suggestions would include pyracantha, hawthorn, blackthorn many roses (especially rugosa) ,and berberis. All these can be maintained as low hedges usin secateurs and THICK gloves. Dorset miners used to call them "underground mutton". Albert the InfoGipsy "So welcome to the Citadel where the question is 'Am I?'"    Report

16/05/2008, 8:24 John Martin BRADLEY Joined on 30/04/2008 Cape Town Posts 41 Re: Rabbit proof plants They'll eat just about anything including the compost around the roots.   The only things I know that don't get eaten are daffodils  and  box.  Those wire  protectors  you are making will need to be losened off every few years  otherwise the bark will grow into the wire and the wire will strangle the tree. JohnMartin www.dontmovetofrance.co.uk    Report

16/05/2008, 10:28 Russethouse Joined on 23/08/2004 Forum Moderator Posts 9,491 Re: Rabbit proof plants The RHS have a list : http://www.rhs.org.uk/Advice/profiles1101/rabbitslist.asp www.quimperclub.org 99    Report

16/05/2008, 13:02 tracteurtom Joined on 09/01/2007 19 Correze Posts 314 Re: Rabbit proof plants You need a gun and a dog.  That'll sort them out.  Cute they may be, but a pest is a pest.     Report

16/05/2008, 13:20 Acegundog Joined on 28/05/2005 Pons, Charente Maritime (17) Posts 72 Re: Rabbit proof plants  tracteurtom wrote: You need a gun and a dog.  Is that me you're talking about?  sueyh wrote:  Before we moved permanently to the house I thought they were lovely "fluffy wuffy bunnies" but now I think they little indeterminate parentage bunnies! How about thinking of them as Terrine de Lapin!   AGD    Report

16/05/2008, 13:42 sueyh Joined on 06/10/2004 62 Posts 180 Re: Rabbit proof plants I have three dogs, a bitza pedigree heinz 33 varieties, a Border Collie and a Rhodesian Ridgeback - the bunnies just escape through the fence and ignore them!  As for a gun, I think my husband has more chance of shooting himself through the foot!!  Suey    Report

16/05/2008, 14:26 tracteurtom Joined on 09/01/2007 19 Correze Posts 314 Re: Rabbit proof plants Nah, its a terrier that you want, not a toy.  Only joking, BCs are brilliant dogs, but more suited to herding and playing ball than killing.   I was told that putting human hair around the plants will deter rabbits ??  Never tried it myself but worth a try.  Dog hair could also work ?? Try and improve the fencing, particularly from ground up to 500mm.   Its a big job, but if the problem warrants it, bury chicken wire all around the perimeter fence to a depth of 100 - 150 mm, that'll stop the buggers !    Report

16/05/2008, 16:01 sueyh Joined on 06/10/2004 62 Posts 180 Re: Rabbit proof plants Well as you can imagine we have plenty of dog hair!!!  Will try that...! ps If I were a rabbit I would not argue with a Ridgeback, cos they like chasing anything small and fluffy....!    Report

16/05/2008, 17:08 John Martin BRADLEY Joined on 30/04/2008 Cape Town Posts 41 Re: Rabbit proof plants If you can't bring yourself to kill the rabbits, then what about using a rabbit  cage - which is a trap that does not harm the  animal.  You can then take it somewhere very far away and let it go.  I have found that carrots are the best  food to entice rabbits - honestly! JohnMartin www.dontmovetofrance.co.uk    Report

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