Older gardeners!!!

cool! i never feel sure enough about that sort of thing, but i went through and reported all the double listings of tulip cultivars (one triple!) i could find in November. it took me several days on & off. did i mention i'm a bit OCD?

No I haven't used blood meal. I did put up wire on a small one that couldn't take the damage.

eek! you garrotted a small bunny? (is that better or worse than the fatal attraction method?

Blood meal works very well around my Asiatic and Oriental lilies as well as any other plants the rabbits love. Of course, our Lhasa Harry, is not a dog that likes to dig, preferring to sit on the bench Jack made for the kitchen bay window and watch the world passing by as he growls at the UPS truck.

No - wire was for the plant. Sounds like an idea though.

Cruel, Al! Bugs Bunny is my hero.

I didn't get any here last year. My dog got one on a walk though - part of nature's plan ;)

Surprised you didn't take a photo. Or did you?!

No. I almost took one of a rabbit ran over on a bridge grate it was so funny. A bit weathered otherwise I would have.

I don't know how true the echinacea is. Here's another new one from the CNB Greenteam. They are an innovative bunch of growers from the Netherlands. So far, I have found the plants to be pretty true to picture.

http://www.cnb.nl/greenteam/newplants/english/cultivars/np425.htm

Here's their intro page. The astilbe 'Radius' looks a little surreal to me.

http://www.cnb.nl/greenteam/newplants/english/start.htm

But so far, I've had good luck with their plants.

Wow!

I had a little bunny last year that I didn't like eating my plants, then it disappeared, and I missed it!
It did reappear a few weeks later, and after awhile preferred clover to what was left in the surrounding area. It was a cutie.

That's why I let the clover grow all over the lawn. Soft on the feet too!

We're with you on leaving the clover, Victor. We also had some baby bunnies last year and I hate saying it but I'd hope we have more this year: so adorable! Here you can just see part of a little head but there were four of them.

And they're great with tomato sauce!

New Year's resolutions down the drain already?

These guys are M.I.A. .... Victor did you spread some tomato sauce?

Which guys??

OOPS! These guys....

They must be buried!

In snow or Tomato sauce??????

Does it matter? It's frozen either way!

The little brown bunny went missing arounf the 1st of Dec. He was the last from the 6 babies that were born last summer. The white one is named Racer (due to the racing stripe down his back) he had crossed the road a few times, looked both ways too. Dec. 23 we got a phone call from DS BF, he said he saw somthing white in the road. DS went out and sure enough it was Racer,he had been hit by a car. DS was upset as was I, but DS had recently gotten Racer to come to him when he called and could feed him out of hand. He was also allowed to pet his head while he was eating. That left one black rabbit, but after the last 12" of snow got dumped on us, we haven't seen her.

Are those rabbits the domestic types that have gone wild? Sorry about Racer. Mine are loved when they are out in the yard frolicking, but hated in the garden eating my lilies and tulips, especially. Same with the deer. Odd.

Rabbits, mice, squirrels etc are huge carriers of the larvae(second stage) of the deer tick which carries Lyme disease and these little hosts may have an infection rate of up to 90% of a population in an area with a very high rate like Nantucket. Then the ticks moves into the Nymph stage (third stage) which is the most likely time of infection to humans. In all phases the tick is only on a host briefly, having spent most of their time patiently waiting in the grass or woods for any warm blooded creature to walk by to ponce (well crawl) on and enjoy a bloody dinner before moving on to its next cycle. Often the host is a mouse in this phase, but it can be any animal such as a rabbit or bird, however you could get lucky and have an infected dinner guest. The final phase is the adult phase in which the tick seeks out as its preferred host, a deer blood-host, to enjoy its last meal and then they mate, the female lays its eggs and then she dies. I don't know what the male does. Victor, do you know? In any case you can be infected mostly during two of the four phases, but you can be bitten by an infected tick carrier in all three phases beyond the egg phase, so handle wild critters(or not) with care as they may be crawling with infected ticks. Patti

Didn't have to convince me ;)
Cities are great habitats for deer,rabbits and geese - lots of food with less predators.

Patti, in most species, after the female is fertilized, the male is rendered useless.

It is just temporary uselessness, isn't it?

I bet it's the unwillingness to ask directions, once again.

Reguardless if they are useless, in most species the male has more color.

Loud but dead! Patti

I'll let you know, Pirl.

Uh oh!

LOL you guys are too much!
The neighbor let several batches of rabbits go at various times. They wandered over here as my dogs are never loose unless im w/them. So they feel relatively safe here, but they shouldn't, I have fox, skunk, coyote, wolf, fishers, hawks & eagles here. Not to mention the cats the prowl the neighborhood at night, domestic & wild. Have had moose stop in my yard and eat my blueberries before trotting through the field and back into the woods!! Not that they would bother the rabbits, but they too carry ticks. We are very careful for that very reasons you mentioned above Patti, but thank you for the concern!