Rabbit Proof Shrubs

If you love gardening and have a garden that you love like nothing else, then you must take all the measures to make sure that your garden is safe. Like so many other things rabbits are really a threat to the plants that you have at the garden. Rabbits have a peculiar habit of chewing whatever they come across. They simply want to taste everything that they get. So if you have a pet rabbit or even if you don’t there is chance that the rabbits can intrude your garden and chew the leaves of the plants that you have cherished with so much warmth. To protect the garden from the rabbits you can raise a fence across the boundary of your garden. But erecting a rabbit proof fence across the garden is a tough job and may not be fruitful as well.

If this is your problem and you have tried all the methods to protect your garden from the rabbits then here comes a really effective and natural way of saving your garden from the rabbits – the rabbit proof shrubs. There are so many varieties of rabbit proof plants that can be used to make the fence. The rabbits usually dislike chewing plants that ooze caustic milky liquids. They also avoid aromatic plans, plants that prick into their soft bodies, plants with tough and hard leaves and plants with spines. Likewise the rabbit proof shrubs will always prevent the rabbits from entering your garden.

There are so many rabbit proof shrub varieties including Alnus, Araucaria araucana, Arbutus or strawberry trees, Aucuba japonica that is also known as spotted laurel, Berberis, Betula or birch trees, Buddleja, Callistemon or bottle brush, Ceanothus, Cistus, Clematis, Cordyline or cabbage tree, Cornus or dogwoods, Cytisus or brooms, Elaeagnus, Escallonia, Eucalyptus, Euonymus, Fatsia japonica, Fuchsia, Gaultheria mucronata or Pernettya, Hebe whipcord types, Hippophae rhamnoides or sea buckthorn, Hydrangea, Hypericum calycinum or rose of Sharon, Laburnum, Laurus nobilis bay tree, Lavatera, Leptospermum, Ligustrum ovalifolium, Lonicera, Olearia, Pinus nigra or black pine, Rhododendron, Ribes that is also known as flowering currents, Rosa, Rosmarinus officinalis, Sambucus species, Solanum, Teucrium fruticans, Vinca, Weigela.

You can choose any of these rabbit proof shrubs or a few of them and plant them across the borders of your garden to prevent the rabbits to enter the garden. But you cannot be sure once you have planted these shrubs. You have to let these shrubs grow for sometime as the rabbits can jump over the shrubs and get into the garden quite easily. So you have to let the trees grow and then when the tress have grown to a level of two to three feet you can actually protect the garden from rabbits. There are so many nurseries and shops where you will find these varieties of rabbit proof plants. Or you can search the internet for vendors who are dealing in rabbit proof shrubs. It is always wise to choose more than one varieties as you can never be sure of the taste of the rabbits that you have in your home or locality.