I feel your pain!!! Don't even get me started on the little evil bunny rabbit I have here. I am SO familiar with the crocuses cropped right to soil level. He's also killed a campanula the same way. I don't understand it with dandelion greens nice and fresh all around??? Very sorry for you. I tried spraying my hostas last year with 2 different products, and it seemed like it was a candy coating on the plants for the bunny -- ate them even faster!

Liquid Fence. Smells awful. One of these marauders took two bites out of my Love Pat and then spit it out. I knew to use the stuff when I saw my crocuses sheared off and the telltale droppings. Try it, but don't get downwind of the stuff when you are spraying it. It's a social hazard, but it will save your hostas.

Steve

So sorry to hear that,Gesila! I wish I knew the answer to that problem,but down here,even with cottontails running all through my woods,nary a rabbit has ever eaten my hostas,and I have a lot of them! Hostas,that is. They have plenty of grasses and weeds to eat,so I guess they have no need to look further. Phil

Steve, you were right about Liquid Fence, don't stand down wind and don't let your DH come into the house with his shoes on after spraying it. Thank goodness we have tile floors, had to clean them with Pine Sol.

Maybe the rabbits will stay away now.

My two greyhounds make a great rabbit deterrent. ;)

Unfortunately, the greyhounds are confined to the fenced back yards and occasionally I see a bunny in the front or side yard. So far (*knocking wood REALLY hard*) they have not touched my hostas. If they do, though, I'll cry. A lot. I'm so sorry your hostas were bunny-munched, Gesila.

I feel your pain.
I was late in getting my chicken wire perimeter up this year and I have at least half a dozen hosta that are mowed to the ground.

A new systemic rabbit repellent hit the market in April. It's spendy, but it's supposed to have long-term effects. I rarely have bunny trouble with my hostas after mid-June, but my lilies and other sun-lovers still suffer the bunny wrath. So, I might give it a try. It's called Repellex and you want the systemic pellets.

Oh Gesila-that's terrible. I would feel the same way if that had happened to me!

As soon as you mentioned the crocus, I knew it was bunnies! My daughter had all of hers decimated this year too by the little cuties.
Deer did in my hostas 4 years ago and I actually cried, I was so frustrated! But the deer repellant works and as long as the plants are still in the ground, they will grow back. Welcome to the club!

chris

Gesila - Hit em with Liquid Fence now and in a couple of weeks, need to retrain them to go to your neighbors yard. Rabbits seem to like the tender pips and smaller leaves best. Once the hosta are leafed out I don't notice much damage except along the edge of paths. Watch what they eat this year - certain plants and hosta they seem to revisit each year in my garden.

Rabbits have been missing this year so far, but I have been seeing deer regularly - mowed down almost all my tulips. Been waiting for rains to end so I can apply some Liquid Fence as the hosta leaf out (any day now). Hope I can get to it tomorrow. Good Luck.

Paul

I feel for you even though I have yet to have a "wild" creature problem. Most of mine are domestic! Dogs and a careless husband!!:) It's frustrating but they will come back.