Garden Dreams and Dirty Nails: The Bunny Nursery

New raised beds, bunnies could still reach the morning glories, chomp, chomp.

My RED pepper plant pepper

I really love bunnies, even though they have eaten a great deal of my garden this year. I love their cute faces, how they love to run around, they are very good at evasive moves. Even though I love bunnies, I don't want a bunny nursery. I have that now because we put up a small fence on the west side of our yard to keep rabbits out. Because the adult rabbits were so familiar with me it was easy to round them up and out the gate, but I was left with a few babies. Eventually they will get used to me and I'll be able to round them up too! Meanwhile, they have obliterated the foliage on the Asiatic lilies, my new prairie clover, new aster, all my morning glories, hyacinth bean, runner beans, and so on. Fortunately, some of those can rebound, but a lot was lost. So, it has been a summer of fencing, screening, replanting, and replanning!

Unfortunately, the drought continues for us, we did get an inch of rain last week, but that's been it for some time. We have 19 new trees and shrubs, but the soaker hoses help a lot, and the new trees and shrubs don't need a ton of water to keep them going. Sometimes, even though it is not measurable rain, the rain barrels refill thanks to our large roof. I rarely have to use city water for the vegetable gardens and can often water all the new shrubs and trees with rainwater.

My new East side raised beds are doing well, not sure the fabric is the best, dries out quickly. I like it being higher, so I may invest in some metal beds.

Because of some fungus, and poor condition of phlox under the maple tree garden alot of plants have been removed. I have planted a tiger's eye sumac, but I'm not sure that is a good choice. I'll have a better idea on how it does next summer. My new elderberry seems to be struggling a bit, but I'm not seeing any outright disease on it. Unfortunately, my new sand cherry shrub has been struck with brown cherry spot, it looks horrible, so I think I'll have to remove it. I've been spraying everything with fungus spray as a preventative.

All things considered it has been a good summer so far! Time for photos!