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03-20-2008, 11:55 AM | #1 | |||
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If it's your garden, chicken wire over the area is a good idea. Yes, it is unsightly but what do you want, veggies or rabbits? Rabbits can be trapped, but you will be trapping them and doing what with them? Releasing them? They will be baaack!!!!
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"Thanks for this!" says: | ewizabeth (03-20-2008) |
03-20-2008, 12:43 PM | #2 | |||
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I'm with Wiz...I'm having animal problems....only mine are deer. Now this is in my fron flower beds in front of my house so I can't go crazy with fencing LOL!
I know deer don't like smelly things...but neither do I!! Ack marigolds! I want some pretty, colorful flowers that aren't 4am deer treats!
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03-20-2008, 03:46 PM | #3 | |||
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http://www.deer-resistant-plants.com/ and one for rabbits that I found from Colorado State Extension http://www.coopext.colostate.edu/cha...0plants%20.pdf
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"Thanks for this!" says: | ewizabeth (03-20-2008) |
03-21-2008, 03:28 PM | #4 | |||
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I have rabbits inside my fence, lol. So I bought an articulated wooden cobra. It scares the tar outta everybody who sees it - it's not terribly realistic, but real enough. Cost me one dollar. Good enough to keep the rabbits out of my veggies. Also, I do plant stuff especially for the rabbits. (cuz I'm cool and that's how I roll) I put a few johhny jump ups in, and they think that's their personal salad bar. Those must taste better then the other stuff, because the bunnies nibble the johnnies and that's about all. I do still have to put the lettuce in pots. But I ain't lost a pepper or tomato plant yet. Funny thing too, the rabbits never eat the johhnies completely gone. They just nibble them down so they'll keep growing - like they know it's their crop.
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"Thanks for this!" says: | tovaxin_lab_rat (03-21-2008) |
05-06-2008, 08:27 AM | #5 | |||
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I am in the process of doing my front flower gardens...I tilled, I laid heavy plastic, I have up border made of granite pieces...
Now I just have to figure what to put in it...I have some Mexican Heather, pansies, chinese lanterns and not sure what else... two kids helped with the other seeds thrown in. lol I want dogwoods for around the house...I can't find the ones I like... Maybe when I go to Florida I can find something. I have some wistera that I am letting take over a tree...you know how that stuff gets carried away...but my dad will keep it cut back. I love wistera. I have a hygrandgea growing and now is the time to set out more. Whars all them younuns when ya need em? lol |
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05-06-2008, 08:45 AM | #6 | |||
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to be very invasive! I don't know how much room you have?
What I do, is put in easy to care for things, that bloom at different times. Then I let them grow all together, and I have flowers most of the summer. (perennials) I love day lilies...I have several types, and they all bloom at different times. Also daisies and black eyed susans are trouble free. For fall I have upright Sedums. But my favorite lately has been the Lychnis Coronaria. Easy from seed. http://www.google.com/imgres?imgurl=...&ct=image&cd=3 This is very hardy, can stand dry conditions, and will rebloom if cut back. I cannot get pansies to grow where it is dry and hot in summer. Even the new varieties fail for me. And I cannot get lobelia to work for me in boxes at all...I gave up on that! I have also found gazania daisies to be very nice and tolerant of neglect! With my arthritis and leg issues, neglect is the magic word for me! This year I searched Ebay and found many unusual varieties of seed there! Very inexpensive! There are two wildflowers I like but can never find, and they were on Ebay. Silene (Armeria) and annual baby's breath!
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05-06-2008, 04:36 PM | #7 | |||
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I just started growing daylilies about 3 yrs ago. I bought 3, now I have 9.
I saw on a tv show how to cross breed them, and I did it - it was so easy. Grew some of their seeds and have some cool colors. I think the key to a great garden is try everything twice, find the things that are happy to grow for you and stick with them. Why fuss over things that don't want to grow there when there are millions of great plants that will? It's just a matter of finding the right ones.
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05-06-2008, 04:49 PM | #8 | |||
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is a deep copper thing, I bought as seeds from Park Seed eons ago.
I wintered them in the frig according to directions, and they all sprouted easily. (in a plastic baggie with a moist paper towel ) Now they have spread and give me beautiful deep copper/maroon flowers. I don't even know their name. They bloom after the early yellows, and after my wild ones. The little new Stella D'oro will bloom more than once if you cut the seed pods off. There is a seller on Ebay with an auction for 50 seeds mixed for .99 starting. If you type daylily seeds into their search it comes up. A great way to get hardy easy care plants...if you are willing to invest in time. I think all daylily need cold stim before germination. (but some varieties may not need that.) Mine did.
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05-07-2008, 09:57 AM | #9 | |||
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Huh, I never knew that. Thanks! I just let them dry and stuck em in the dirt and they grew, I guess I got lucky.
(Dh would say my hands were cold enuf to do it) I finally hung the hummy feeders and the birds are at them now.
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