Rabbit Resistant Plants
Tips on Landscaping With Rabbit Resistant Plants
If you want a beautiful yard, rabbit resistant plants are a must have. Although it may seem like it would be fun to have rabbits and deer running through your yard, these animals will quickly eat through your landscaping. Having wildlife in your yard will not only cause your yard and garden to look terrible, it will likely cost you a lot of money to fix what the animals destroy.
If you have deer in your yard you will rind that they will eat the leaves from your trees, as well as any fruits and nuts that you have growing in your yard. Even though it is nice to think that the cute little deer will do nothing more than keep your grass trimmed by eating it, the facts are that deer would much prefer to eat your trees.
Rabbits are an even worse problem as they will eat just about anything that will grow, including your flowers, especially if you are have tulips in your flower garden. If you are growing a vegetable garden you can expect that the rabbits will feast on your peas, beets and beans.
The damage that rabbits can do in the winter is just as bad as they tend to eat the ends off of branches, as well as the bark of trees. Trees that are older and have rough bark tend to be more along the lines of rabbit resistant plants, but if a tree is newly planted you can be sure that the rabbits will have a feast. Rabbits especially like oak and maple trees.
If you have damage to your landscape or garden it isn’t too difficult to tell if deer, rabbits or some other type of rodent caused the damage. When deer invade your yard you will notice that your branches have jagged surfaces or ends. The damage done by rabbits will leave the surface clean.
Although wildlife will eat just about any type of plant when there is little food available, due to a difficult winter and a lot of snow, there are some plants that they don’t like as much. Finding rabbit resistant plants to use as landscaping can be somewhat difficult; sometimes rabbits will eat anything.
Some rabbit resistant plants that you may want to try include, birch and boxwood trees, as well as alder trees. St. John’s Wort, and spiny roses are also plants that rabbits would prefer to stay away from. Lilac bushes are another possibility if you are trying to landscape your yard with rabbit resistant plants.
A few of the perennials that are considered rabbit resistant plants include, daffodils, vinca and yucca, as well as the daylily and Solomon’s seal.
Keep in mind that just because you are using foliage that is considered to be rabbit resistant plants, this does not necessarily mean that you will have no problems. The most effective method of deterring rabbits and rodents is with commercial repellents, or possibly a dog or cat. Cats tend to be the best choice if your problem is rabbits, and dogs for deer and other types of wildlife, though dogs can also be a great deterrent for rabbits.
The biggest problem with using rabbit resistant plants is that no one seems to agree on which plants are truly resistant to rabbits. If you would like to use this method of ridding your yard of rabbits, you would be best to try a variety of plants to find out which ones work best for you. Once you see which plants that the rabbits are leaving alone, you’ll want to use more of these types of plants.