Current Combinations

Pirl, I love the rabbits in the yard that I have so carefully left to them. But they are a primary source along with the deer for ticks so that I greatly prefer, no insist, that they stay out of the major part of the gardens that are fenced. But the baby bunnies are so cute. How come they don't eat your day lilies, like they do mine? They don't bother my astilbe or iris. How do you spread your blood meal? I might try some in the beds that the dogs are fenced out of on the bunny side instead of the sprays DH uses. Patti

I just open the bag and spread it by hand. They especially like the tender new growth and proved it the year they ate every emerging Oriental lily to the ground - about 100 of them. Deer, on the other hand, will eat new growth or any growth they find attractive.

Today I found one I like that includes Lilium July Mint (buggy crazy) Artimisia 'Silver King'
(invasive, but easy to control in my soil since 1983), Heliopsis 'Summer Sun' and a peak at a big mound of Lavender 'Munstead', a single short delphinium (rest of the seedlings that I started died) an oak leaf hydrangea and in the far back is Spiraea japonica 'Shirobana'and a patch of pink cosmos plus a mess of other stuff. Patti