How do you keep bunnies from eating your tulips and other bulbs?

[Aemma]

Where I live we have quite the wild bunny population, actually we're pretty well known for having these wild bunnies everywhere in our part of the city. I love seeing them in my yard when they do appear but at around this time of year I start getting pretty annoyed with them, since they come and raze my tulips before they've had a chance to do anything. A couple of years ago, I didn't get any crocuses because they came and ate the tenderlings!

Last year we had to fashion some kind of wee fencing around the flower beds just so my tulips could come to life. Once fully grown, the bunnies don't pay them much attention, but until then....

So do any of you have such problems in your own gardens? If so, what have you done to keep the bunnies at bay? Care to share your ideas/strategies with me please? Other than plunking down some ugly chicken wire all over the place, I don't know what else to do.

Thanks for any and all responses!

Cheers!...Aemma

[Æmeric]

You could shoot the bunnies. Or... you could get a couple of cats. We let a stray cat stay at our house several years ago - for the purpose of keeping down the rodent population. There are now 5 cats, no names, they live outside & occasionally a mouse will get pass them into the house. But they also cut down on the rabbit population. I don't think there's a rabbit within 1/2 a mile of here. Or a chipmunk.

[Manifest Destiny]

Bunny repellent.

[Aemma]

LOL! I think I should have turned this into a poll:

What to do with the bunnies?

Answer a): Shoot them bunnies

Answer b): Shoot them rascally bunnies

Answer c): Shoot them pesky wabbits

Answer d): Make bunny stew

Thanks for the feedback so far guys! LOL ahh Dres, nothing like REAL fire power eh?

Cheers!...Aemma

[Allenson]

What kind of rabbits are they, Aemma? Cottontails? Snowshoes?

Anyway, I would stick to the low fencing and perhaps some predator urine:

http://www.predatorpee.com/Merchant2...tegory_Code=CU

[Manifest Destiny]

Anyway, I would stick to the low fencing and perhaps some predator urine:

http://www.predatorpee.com/Merchant2...tegory_Code=CU

Nothing like spending a sunny afternoon in the pee-smell garden.

[Æmeric]

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[Treffie]

You could shoot the bunnies. Or... you could get a couple of cats. We let a stray cat stay at our house several years ago - for the purpose of keeping down the rodent population. There are now 5 cats, no names, they live outside & occasionally a mouse will get pass them into the house. But they also cut down on the rabbit population. I don't think there's a rabbit within 1/2 a mile of here. Or a chipmunk.

Ok, what happens when the cats take over?

[Æmeric]

You stop feeding them & they move on.

I use to have a problem with possums also. But the cats chased the possums off.

[Aemma]

What kind of rabbits are they, Aemma? Cottontails? Snowshoes?

Anyway, I would stick to the low fencing and perhaps some predator urine:

http://www.predatorpee.com/Merchant2...tegory_Code=CU

Here are a couple of pics of my friendly visitor (taken last year):





So would this be a cottontail then? Its wee tail is pure white. It's cute as heck but an awful bummer that it eats my flowers!!

So Coyote pee eh?...

Thanks Dalton!...Aemma