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My garden hates me (long...and lost-advice needed!)
I moved into my house a couple months ago and admittedly have no experience with growing flowers or plants of any kind, but thought "How hard can it be?" ....Apparently it's incredibly hard.
First, I found out that the previous owners had TONS of weeds but had covered them all with fresh woodchips...well those weeds grew out. After many, many, many weekends of weeding, I got the majority of them out, and the flowers that were already planted there started to look lovely. Although I noticed birds started pecking like crazy in the areas I had weeded and dug up some of the flowers in the process, weird, right?
Well, lately I noticed that some of the flower petals were gone. I had no idea what had happened, but didn't even think to look at it the next few days b/c I was so busy. I found the culprit yesterday as he finished off the last of my once pretty flowers- a darn rabbit. He ate, quite literally, every single flower we had. What the heck? Now I just have a bunch of chewed off stems everywhere and visitors coming next weekend.
I probably sound stupid here, but will the petals grow back? Should I just dig them all out and plant something else? If so, what could I plant that wouldn't become rabbit-food? What do you all have planted at your house? Any advice is appreciated here-I'm lost
Who knew gardening would be so difficult, ugh...
Re: My garden hates me (long...and lost-advice needed!)
hey sparty, i don't know nothing about flowers at all....in fact i am supposed to plant some this weekend for the first time.
do you know what kind of flowers they were so i know NOT to get those? we have rabbits all over out here.
The birds probably found some sort of tasty seed or something. The petals won't grow back, you might get new buds but the bud that got chewed off is done. I don't have a lot of recs b/c I don't know what our previous owner planted either. I will say that our tiger Lilly gets chewed off every time it flowers, so I wouldn't recommend that. Our hydrangea bush, roses, and mums do fine. Maybe you could go to a local gardening center and get some advice from the employees there?
Wow - poor thing!
We have pansies (SP), Gerber Daises and different types of Slavia's planted in our yard. I have seen plenty of rabbits, but none eating away at them. I would suggest going to Lowes or Home Depot and see if there are any kinds of repellants for rabbits.