Rabbit proof plants

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We've moved into a house with an enormous garden, mostly grass and trees. We've discovered there is also an enormous rabbit population and we don't know what we can grow that rabbits won't eat. They clearly avoid daffodils and snowdrops as loads of them have come up, but can anyone suggest what else we could grow. Thinking flowering perennials, and maybe shrubs. TIA.

Only daffodils in my experience.

I kind of gave up on plants the years I had a free range rabbit.

anything that is woody stemmed (well, they may eat the new shoots!)
and anything that is more than 6 inches tall.

So plan a garden of shrubs, buy them tall enough to have woody stems at the bottom, or grow them in a pot for a couple of years, then plant out.

Don't bother with raised beds, they will jump up!
But if you grow something in a large freestanding pot, you may get away with it, eg runner beans in a large pot.

On the shrub front, Hebes, buddlia, roses, lavendar, wisteris, rosemary, sage, forsythia, honeysuckle (once established), St. Johns wort, etc etc.

Also fruit trees, and raspeberries, and currants.

I had a free ranging rabbit living in our garden and all those are shrubs that were here when we got him and he didn't touch.
Anything herbaceous that comes up each year with succulent little growing tips..... forget it.

But I did manage to keep a couple, I put old hanging baskets upside down over the plant, but the time it grew through the bars it was strong enough. But we only had one/two rabbits!

We live in a similar area and have tried all sorts. They eat anything young and new which is so frustrating. The only thing that has worked for us is raised beds surrounded by plastic coated chicken wire. You could go further and net over the top as well. It annoyed me at first but I’m used to seeing it now so it depends how much it would bother you. They are a bit like trying to stop the tide coming in though

just to say (and again, we only had one rabbit) our veg plot was rabbit proofed. It didn't take much, good chicken wire and stakes.

We have a rabbit and they eat absolutely everything!! There's plenty they are not meant to eat but sadly our bunny seems not to have received the memo.
The best option is netting to stop then nibbling which I know is far from ideal, especially as these are wild rabbits so you don't even have an attachment to them which allows you to forgive them for eating all of your cyclamen 🤨