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Rabbit proofing my yard?
I have seriously had it with the rabbits in our yard. Every time we come home we find at least 5 rabbits in our yard. They live on the mountain behind our house. It is getting ridiculous! They have eaten ALL our flowers. I just don't know what to do. We've lost hundreds of dollars over all the flowers they've eaten.
Any ideas for either flowers/plants/bushes that rabbits don't eat, or something short of getting a BB gun to get rid of them?
Thanks!
Emily
7-10-04 
Re: Rabbit proofing my yard?
They don't eat marigolds.
I had to start putting netting over all my plants to protect them from the bunnies this year. Last year I didn't have a bunny problem and this year I have a tonne. I regularly see 5 at a time in my yard and my yard is tiny.
The bunnies ate my echinacea around my mailbox down to the ground. I found a plant that was supposed to repel rabbits, dogs, and cats--Coleus canina. It smells kind of skunky, likes full sun and not a lot of water. The leaves have a succulent look to them.
It worked like a charm! The echinacea rebounded quite nicely, and it even kept the rabbits away from bed about 5 feet from the mailbox. I will be buying more of them next spring!
IMO all of the flowers they dont eat are fug. lol
I've tried everything, sprays, granules, stunning them w/a bb gun (ok, that was actually DH doing that...) I've sprinkled baby powder in their nests... I even tried trapping them and I caught nothing!
Short of refilling their nests with dirt, i've tried all of that stuff and they are still around, crapping all over the place conveniently where our dog finds it and eats it up (and then barfs all over the house...)
It's one annoying and painful cycle...