Pasted from a bunny site....
HERBS FOR BUNNIES
With two more bank holidays coming up in May, and these two are the most popular for garden centre visitors I thought I would just list the various herbs that have medicinal properties that help our rabbits keep in tip top condition.
Parsley Mint Marjoram
Fennell Chervil Cotton Lavender
Sage Chives Chamomile
Lavender Thyme Sorrell
Agrimony
And don’t forget, a couple of Achillea millefolium (posh yarrow) wouldn’t go amiss either.
Vegetable seeds: Perpetual Spinach, Rocket, radish, chives, beans, carrots, All these can be grown in pots if you feel you don’t have enough room for a veg. plot.
OFF TO THE GARDEN CENTRE
If, like me, you cannot resist trips out to your local garden centre or other such shops I have constructed a list of rabbit friendly flowers and a list of what not to buy.
If you would like to deter your fluffs from demolishing your favourites, try growing them through tall stick plants such as Phlox, adding hurdles, or like me tempting them away by edging boarders with Geranium “endressii”. They enjoy the leaf of this plant so much that they just sit and stuff them selves and venture no further, unless of course you’ve got a “digging” doe.
Plants to grow: Asters, Borage, Calendula, Galega, Geranium, Geum (this plant is the “posh” version of the Aven weed and full of fibre), Helenium, Hollyhock (from the Mallow family) Honesty, Lupins (not the seed pods), Marguerites, Marigolds, Michaelmas Daisies, Nasturtium, Rose, Stocks, Sunflowers and Wallflowers.
Do avoid: Acacia, Aconite, Antirrhinum, Arum Lily, Anemone, Columbine, Daffodil, Dahlia, Delphinium, Feverfew, Gypsophelia, Hellebores, Hyacinth, Iris, Larkspur, Lilly of the Valley, Linarias, Lobelia, Love in a Mist, Monkshood, Poppies, Snowdrop, Tulips and all bulbous plants.
Happy gardening.