Until I let my dog out this morning, I had almost forgotten about the rabbits! Reggie shot like a bullet out the door in pursuit of the rabbit he saw by the bird feeder. Needless to say, he is never as fast as that bunny. I cannot believe I had forgotten about the damage the rabbits bestowed on my daughter's garden last spring, summer and fall. All of her hosta was chewed to the ground, coneflowers, phlox, ferns and even the rose bushes.
She has a dog, but obviously this did not deter her brood of rabbits. We sprayed liquid repellants, spread dog hair, even resorted to laying plastic snakes throughout the garden! We eventually ordered plants from http://www.highcountrygardens.com/ known for it's rabbit and deer resistant plants. Those rascals seemed to like these even more, chewing them relentlessly until the cold weather hit. Maybe, the plants will come back since a speck of green was still visible as the snow began to fly.
Well, we are not giving up! High Country Gardens just sent me an email advising to ring your garden with lavender to keep rabbits out. Don't they remember that Peter Rabbit's cousin Benjamin Bunny's father (old Mr. Banjamin Bunny) smoked rabbit tobacco (better known as lavendar)?
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Rabbits Indeed!
I can volunteer my property as a test market site for High Country Gardens if they need to know for sure that their plants are rabbit resistant. After hundreds of dollars spent on specialty plants, coyote urine, fox urine, garlic pellets, granule concoctions and now fake snakes, I have concluded that I must have mutant rabbits!
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