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what won't the rabbits eat!!!!!!! victor valley ca area.
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Posted by HiDesertLady 9 CA Mojave (My Page) on Fri, Jun 6, 03 at 6:19
| Hello,
I'm hoping there are some long time Victor Valley residents on this forum, I could really use some help!
Looking for suggestions for native or drought tolerant plants that are perennial that both jackrabbits and cottontail rabbits and ground squirrels won't eat. I'm at my wits end here...they even chew the bark off of the few trees that are here if they aren't wrapped well. I'm on 2.5 remote acres in the highlands between Apple Valley and Lucerne Valley at an elevation of about 3900 feet. Whatever I plant must be able to withstand summer temps exceeding 109, occasional winter snow and some rip-roaring winds.
Thanks for any suggestions! |
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RE: what won't the rabbits eat!!!!!!! victor valley ca area.
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| LOL! We have chicken wire rings around many of our trees. I have noticed that once they get large and woody the bunnies leave them alone. Today we noticed a jackrabbit with his front feet on the chicken wire, eating the lower leaves of an apricot tree. They will chew on prickly pear pads and ice plant. I have salvia greggi, russian sage, ocotillo, cresote, bird of paradise, native desert marigold, santolina, and native verbena planted outside my stucco walls and they do NOT eat on those plants. High Country Gardens lists plants that they don't bother in their catalog. Good luck! |
RE: what won't the rabbits eat!!!!!!! victor valley ca area.
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| Santolina and artemisia are great deterents. Also I have pumkin vines and watermelon vines that are being ignored. Cactus and yucca are chewed on but not destroyed. Vinca and verbena are quite safe. Someone as said that rabbits will eat anything, even if they don't like it. Keep trying. |
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| My grandfather had an apple orchard, I remember him going to a hair salon and bringing home hair clippings, he would place these hairs all around the trees, he said the rabbits hate the hair, and it kept them away, atleast it did in Illinois. |
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| My dad in Iowa had rabbits eat his tomato plants. He said he put bone meal around the areas of the plants and he has not had any more nibbles. He lost the main stem from one plant and lots of leaves from others, but nothing now! He is an old farmer and knew that would be a smell they would not like. |
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| Found this list at the link below. Most of them have links to pics. Perennials Achillea(Yarrow)
Agastache(Just Peachy)
Agastache(Shades of Orange)
Agastache(Licorice Mint)
Agave(Century Plant)
Amphora(Lead Plant)
Aquilegia(Columbine)
Artemisia(Sage)
Cacti
Digitalis(Foxglove)
Gaillardia (Firewheel)
Geraniums(Hardy Geraniums)
Kniphofia(Red Hot Poker)
Lavandula(Lavender)
Narcissus(Daffodils)
Nepeta(Blue Catnip)
Origanum(Oregano)
Oxytropis(Locoweed)
Penstemons Paeonia(Peony)
Rosmarinus(Rosemary)
Salvia
Santolina
Scrophularia(Redbirds in a Tree)
Sedum(Stone Crop)
Stanelya (Prince's Plume)
Tagetes (Perennial Marigold)
Tanacetum vulgaris Crispum (also an ant repellent plant) view
Thymus species
Tritoma
Yucca
Zinnia grandiflora
Zizophora(Blue Mint Bush) Shrubs
Caryopteris(Spiraea)
Chrysothamnus(Chamisa)
Cytisus(Hardy Broom)
Falugia(Apache Plume)
Perovskia(Russian Sage) |
Here is a link that might be useful: Rabbit Resistant Plants
RE: what won't the rabbits eat!!!!!!! victor valley ca area.
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| Old wife’s tale that has worked for us (I'm your immediate neighbor, by the way- Lucerne Valley here) Lay out sticks of Juicy Fruit. The rabbits and ground squirrels will eat that and leave your flowers alone. Also, cats help keep these critters away. |
RE: what won't the rabbits eat!!!!!!! victor valley ca area.
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| I have 4 cats and there are 5 adult cottontail rabbits that think my yard is a smorgesbord laid out just for them. The cats pay no attention to them at all. I was glad to read the above list of rabbit resistant plants. |
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I started a thread about rabbit-resistant plants, last fall. I wanted to find it again...but when I did a search, it didn't come up...only recent posts. Is there any way to find it again? I was going to say the Ruellia ALL got munched by the Quail...and the Lantana, Red Fairy-Dusters & Mex. Honeysuckle are still just great. I'll try some listed above. Thanks for the additions to the possibles! (I asked in another thread...but do any of you know if blackberries are safe from critters?
TIA |
RE: what won't the rabbits eat!!!!!!! victor valley ca area.
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| We have 32 rabbits, so I think I might be able to help. Try giving them some hot chile peppers to nibble on! Some rabbits don't like lilac either. |
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Dear HiDesertLady,
Wow, apricots (all parts except the fruit) are supposed to be poisonous to rabbits. So with that in mind, here are some others, said to be toxic to rabbits: Agave, Almond, Aloe, Amaryllis, Andromeda, Anemone, Angel's Trumpet (Datura), Asian Lily, Asparagus Fern, Autumn Crocus, Avocado leaves, Azalea leaves. (more to come)
Linda Sun |
RE: what won't the rabbits eat!!!!!!! victor valley ca area.
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| More: Balsam Pear (outer rind), Baneberry (berries and roots), Baarbados Lily, Begonia, Bittersweet, Black Nightshade, Black Walnut hulls, Bloodroot, Bluebonnet, Boston Ivy, Busy Lizzie, Buttercup leaves, Black Locuts, Boxwood leaves & twigs, Bracken Fern, Buckthorn berries, fruit and bark, Bull Nettle, Buttercup leaves, bulbs & sap, Caladium, Calendula, Calico Bush, Calla Lily, Caladiur leaves, Carnation, Carolina Jessamine, astor Bean seeds and leaves, Cherry tree (all parts except fruit), (more) |
RE: what won't the rabbits eat!!!!!!! victor valley ca area.
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| My friend, who lives in cold, high desert on the eastern edge of the Sierra Nevadas, is now convinced that what the deer won't eat, the jackrabbits will, and what the jackrabbits won't eat, the ground squirrels will. In other words, she gave up. |
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| Yep, that about sums it up. The most frustrating thing when I was landscaping was to set out plants so the planting crew could get them into the ground. I quickly learned not to get too far ahead of the crew least the rabbits would come along and nibble. The "will not eat" list depends on the season, early spring the beasts are hungry and will nibble just about anything. Plant and cover with chicken wire until the plants are established and producing bittering agents such as phenols. Then the bunnies are less interested........but the deer don't mind. |
RE: what won't the rabbits eat!!!!!!! victor valley ca area.
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| I sprinkle my beds with either bloodmeal or minced garlic every week or two and that put a stop to rabbit munching. |
RE: what won't the rabbits eat!!!!!!! victor valley ca area.
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| I am curious about what type of ground cover Rabbits will Not eat. Does anyone know of any?? Help in Lake Mathews.. |
RE: what won't the rabbits eat!!!!!!! victor valley ca area.
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| Compare databases: What won't jackrabbits eat that also the following animals will not eat in redwood country: the desultory eagle pair, vigilant owls, Stellar jays, many finch like birds, several roaming groups of wild pigs, gophers, quail, peacocks, deer, two horses, Sheltie dogs. If there are plant eating snakes, bands of pigeons sometimes, a sleepy gray stork, a few skitterish mallards. Though we are grateful for siamese cats and Sheltie dogs. We took the fencing away. Excellent soils. Place is close to picture on my "website", see link. |
Here is a link that might be useful: Looks south across former vineyard
RE: what won't the rabbits eat!!!!!!! victor valley ca area.
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| Rabbits DO EAT LAVENDER!!!!! I have the mulled lavender plants and bunny turds in the snow to prove it 100%. :( |
RE: what won't the rabbits eat!!!!!!! victor valley ca area.
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| I'm in the middle of some landscape remodeling. Rabbits have been feasting on some blue fescue ornamental grasses I planted. I was at a coffee shop a few days back and picked up a big bag of used coffee grinds for my compost bin. Instead, I just dumped it in a new bed close to the rabbits hangout. I haven't seen hide or hare since then. Coincidence??? If I keep on not seeing rabbits, I'm going to put used grind directly in my beds more often instead of in my compost piles. |
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