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I need to find a shrub that i can plant in my garden that is non poisonous to rabbits.......has anyone got any ideas???
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Here's a pretty long list of things to avoid: Rabbit Advocates Toxic Plants
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I need to find a shrub that i can plant in my garden that is non poisonous to rabbits.......has anyone got any ideas???
Many plants in the wild are poisonous, yet rabbits thrive. How do they manage?

I think if you plant a shrub in your garden that is tasty to rabbits, and expose it to rabbits, you won't have said shrub for very long.
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On Thu, 30 Aug 2012 10:04:43 +0000, ian05hunter
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Hi,
I need to find a shrub that i can plant in my garden that is non
poisonous to rabbits.......has anyone got any ideas???


Lettuce is supposedly toxic to rabbits. But they eat it. They used to
decimate my mother's tomatoes, despite tomato leaves being supposedly
toxic to rabbits.

If you have a pet rabbit, then maybe try entering "plants toxic to
rabbits" in your search engine and you'll probably find a decent list
of things to avoid. If you're worried about wild rabbits, plant what
you like as they don't seem to mind.

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Hi,
I need to find a shrub that i can plant in my garden that is non
poisonous to rabbits.......has anyone got any ideas???


But won't they just eat it to extinction if you find one?





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Her@Nowhere wrote:
We had an inherited pet rabbit who lived to the age of 11, completely freerange by day in
both his previous owners garden and our own. He neither died of poison plants nor turned the
gardens to a desert.


But did you have 86,329 of them by the time he died?
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David Hill wrote:
We had an inherited pet rabbit who lived to the age of 11, completely freerange by day in
both his previous owners garden and our own. He neither died of poison plants nor turned the
gardens to a desert.


But did you have 86,329 of them by the time he died?

HE dear girl, not SHE


Persumably there was access for females to get into the garden, though.
And HE would be equipped to reproduce an awful lot quicker than a female when
given access to the opposite gender.
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Martin wrote:
It takes two to tango, even for rabbits.


Sounds like a Britain's Got Talent act
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