That's the breaks baby cakes! I set out an iron pyramid for my cardinal flower vine and the bunnies ate it.
Go to the garden store and buy something 1/2 price....rocket snaps may do well in only that amount of sun.. or one of those new Kong Coleus...mine gets morning sun and is fabulous!
And there's always impatiens....wonderful plants...all colors and always showy.
Linda C

A simple change of attitude is needed! ;-) Think of every garden mishap, failure, or 'naked spot' as an opportunity to try something else! Why not try one of the 'Kong' coleus along with a few impatiens, since they did so well for you last year?

I feel for you! The same thing happened with my cosmos. Just as they were about to flower: chomp!

You could try some lobelia or fittonia.

Yea, it happens, unfortunately.

Why don't you hit the garden center this weekend and buy yourself a flat of replacement annuals (should be some good bargains out there!) and enjoy those.

Don't buy petunias, though - I've heard that rabbits LOVE petunias....

Bunnies hate Liquid Fence!

Go to a large garden center and cruise their "shade plants" area and go with what floats your boat. Some of my favorite plants are things I never intended buying in the first place!

You might like torenia (wishbone flower) as a replacement.

Thanks so much everyone! I ended up getting some Blue Blazer Ageratum to replace them. I really like these flowers, so I feel a lot better now! Supposedly the bunnies don't like these. If they eat my Black-eyed Susan down one more time (yup, they ate that, too!), then I'll be getting some Liquid Fence.

My gardens are Party Central for the local rabbit population, and I can vouch for the fact that they don't eat ageratum. They also don't eat marigolds, geraniums (pelargonium), snapdragons or alyssum, so that's what I have for annuals in the ground.

Just about every other annual is bunny fodder, especially petunias, so I grow those on the deck, in hanging baskets, or in windowboxes.

The bunnies don't eat my petunias but the mowed my morning glories down to the ground. I looked for liquid fence but can't find it anywhere here, I didn't know they don't like alysuum, that's good to know as I have it as a border in my sweetpea bed, I was so sure they would have eaten my sweetpeas, but that must be why, they are surrounded by alysuum, I'll remember that in the future,

If a bunny is hungry....he will eat anything his nose bumps into....roses with thorns, marigolds, certainly snap dragons and allyssum....as well as hosta, Christmas cactus and even a dried and dead fern in a pot.
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Don't count on a bunny's taste!
Linda C

Great photo, Linda! Little bugger looks totally tame, doesn't he?

Oh, the rabbits up here LOVE rose canes -- I had a six-foot shrub rose gnawed down to 6" overnight -- so I have only one rose in this garden and it's surrounded with a chicken wire fence. Sigh...

But I've never had them eat the annuals I named... probably because there's a wide variety of other things to eat in the neighborhood, and in my garden for that matter! So while I don't doubt that they'd eat it rather than starve (heck, wouldn't YOU? I would), those plants seem to be very low on their list.

Oh, and Liquid Fence did not slow the rabbits down one bit for me. Powdered fox urine did, but I tired of re-applying it after every dewy morning. So now I just stick with planting ageratum, snaps, marigolds, alyssum and geraniums!