Hi all,

I have two rabbits, Arthur and Sacha. They are great and I love em to bits but they have pretty much destroyed my garden with all their digging and eating everything in sight. We are planning to do up the garden next year.

We're going to have a proper brick/concrete shed with foundations so that will stop the problem of them digging under shed at least. We have no hope of soppting them digging the lawn so we just probably won't bother with new turf. I would like flowers though so we thinking of putting raised beds in. However I have recnetly discovered that they are quite capable of jumping up onto stacked plastic boxes in the garden that are about 3 foot high!

So any idea of how to have flowers and rabbit happily co-existing. It a small garden BTW and I'd rather not fence an area off entirely if possible.

It depends which flowers you plant. They won't eat all flowers and know which they can and can't. You could try growing a little box of grass for them to nibble.

You could also start training them by saying a stern NO whilst moving them with a gentle pat on the bot. Hopefully after a time you will only have to say no then they will learn not do that thing at all. It can be a bit hit or miss. It works with one of mine but not the other because she's a tough little madam lol.

I want a herb garden as well, which they will defo make short work of! Plus it's not necessarily the eating that kills the plants but also the stomping all over them and/or digging them up. Also I'm not with them for most of the day so I can't really traing them. Thanks for replying though

you could have your raised beds. but put a frame of chicken wire, or cage and aviary wire around the sides of them too, probably doesn't need to be very high, but it will likely stop them from getting in there and digging/stomping (i had to do a similar thing to save the mint & parsley i grew for them like this - they would nibble at what had grown and poked through the holes, or hung over the top of the wire but couldn't get further than that with them
the plants were really long lived until the snow saw to them over winter, they didn't really spring back from that :/)