Advice please - are there any plants that rabbits don't eat?

[weegiemum]

I've never posted in this section before but can do with some plant advice.

We have a completely secure fenced garden, hence in the summer our rabbits are free range in the garden. We've tried runs but they're really unhappy and it's great to see them running about. They occasionally jump into the run with the Guinea pigs.

However this has played havoc with having anything planted (we have lawn, a patio area and a deck with lots of pots). Last year all our pots got stripped bare, so this year we have stuck to hanging baskets, herbs in pots on a table and that's it. I've got a few big pots that can't really go higher up and I'm just wondering if there's anything rabbits leave alone?

Thanks for your help!

Not in my experience. In the last 2 years, our bunny has eaten everything except the dandelions in the lawn.

Ours used to decimate our garden, it wasn't a problem for us as such, but a year or so after bunny died, we started to see some lovely plants coming back!

Daffodils were safe.
Mine even ate the snowdrop flowers.

We used to get deer in our garden and the only things they left alone were poisonous plants like euphorbias and hellebores. I should think that rabbits wouldn't attempt to eat them either.

Maybe very prickly plants too?

I thought I had read that rabbits don't like lavender and rosemary. Perhaps give those a try.

Thanks everyone, to be honest I'm not surprised by the answers. Rabbits eat everything!!

We have gone (yesterday was garden centre day!!) for a lot of height - we had an old table and chair set so the table now holds herbs by the back door - parsley x2, rosemary, thyme, lemon thyme, basil, oregano and dill. 4 of the 6 chairs have a big pot on them, holding geraniums, petunias etc, and then we've fenced off a small area by the fence using extra bits of Guinea pig lawn fencing and have an acer, flamingo plant (that dh found in Asda yesterday) and a bay tree in there. There's some low space there still so I might plant more geraniums in terracotta pots in there too.

Pleased with how we've managed it, and it's nice that we still have the front garden with clematis, peonies, lavender and honeysuckle growing.

We had free rabbits too. We were told geraniums, but they still nibbled them.
we ended up having a pond with lillies and planted bamboo … we put cut up bamboo round it like a fence but staggered heights and it looked really effective . …
Please don’t plant poisonous plants as someone suggested, our rabbit died eating something he shouldn’t.