I've been waiting for this video ever since I watched the deer resistant list! 🎉 I have a resident rabbit that thinks my gardens are his personal supermarket. 😂🤦🏾♀️ Thanks Heidi, I will be investing in a few of these suggestions.
Absolutely correct. Hungry, they will eat anything. Never my daffodils, yet. I have mentioned before that I am digging out most of my plants that need to be sprayed, or netted because I am just tired of fighting a losing battle. Spray is expensive and a pain in the neck to keep up with. I am digging out gorgeous lilies, and my very established sedum this week, and planning on planting yarrow and allium, serendipity and millennium. I also love the Pugster Blue butterfly bush, which I purchased from you last year. Came back beautifully this year and they don’t touch it. Lenten rose now comes in a variety of wonderful colors, and is immune to rabbits and deer, it seems. They will go where my hosta used to be. Nice to get a different look, but a lot of work and expensive. Worth it completely. Your plants are wonderful and beautifully shipped and packaged. Healthy and gorgeous.
I always love watching your videos, not only are they informative but, they are also very pretty to see with all the beautiful Proven Winner (and other) flowers. Thanks 😊
Rabbits have eaten every last bloom stalk on my Midnight Masquerade Penstemon plants some summers! I have sprayed them with Liquid Fence, Repels All, a couple other repellants, to no avail. They dont eat the leaves, just the bloom stalks.
I have a white variety, they leave alone and the pretty pink, with the darker stems which they eat too. Sorry to say I have decided to replace any plants that deer love, with plants they won’t eat. She did say with penstemon they tend not to eat it . With my Pugster blue butterfly bushes, there is no tend not to eat. They don’t eat it. Serendipity allium the same. No spraying either. I am putting in hellebores and taking out hosta, little by little, because it gets pricey. But so does spray, netting and cages. And the disappointment is huge. I feel your pain.
I don't know what happened in spring 2022, but rabbits and deer ate everything that was supposed to be rabbit and deer resistant. Even the plants that are poisonous. Go figure. I was hoping to get some seeds off my yellow columbine to make some more, but it was eaten down to the ground almost. It never flowered. This spring I am spraying.
Thank you for the information The rabbits are treating my flowers bed like a buffet 😢😅. I have midnight masquerade and love it. Should I cut it back after blooming ? If yes, will it rebloom ?
Between the deer and rabbits at my house, way too many plants were destroyed. It is too discouraging, time consuming and expensive. To try and deter them with spray. I have covered a hedge of azaleas successfully, after the deer ate the buds in the fall, which I take off in spring. But, this past year I dug out almost all my lilies, and some roses, and planted Pugster Blue Butterfly bushes, allium, yarrow, dahlias and hellebores. Bee Balm also works and gives nice color. It is an expensive proposition because bushes are pricey in comparison to even a few years ago. I am digging out my hosta this spring, and have decided to try and put my deer and rabbit prone plants together in a few beds and enclose those beds with deer fencing. This is thicker and heavier than bird fencing. I will use fabric pins to hold down the bottom of the netting. I am also taking out a few hydrangea, but holding on to my little lime hydrangeas, which are OK once the flowers come out. I spend too much time, money and sweat in my garden to disappointingly see it devoured by our animal life. There’s plenty to eat for them, but, hopefully not in my garden.
@@gardencrossings I replaced a bunch of plants last year with plants I got from you guys and it was a huge success. No spraying, eating or problems. Pugster Blues were gorgeous. It allowed me to see the possibilities and it is thoroughly worth it to dig them out, expensive or not. I have many plants that work well, and will enclose a few beds to keep the deer and rabbits out. It is just dreadful to see the damage that they do, and now I know I can find many beautiful plants to take their place. I am doing this a few beds at a time. Your plants have been beautiful, healthy and they performed as promised. Drought and deer resistant. This is their second year, and they are already looking good as it warms up here in VA.
