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Everything was going so well in your garden…until your uninvited guests showed up and ate everything. While you wouldn’t mind if the deer and rabbits just came to admire your flowers, it’s not so nice ...

I would like some advice on adding some spring flowering bulbs to my garden. My neighborhood does have deer and rabbits running around, so I want to try to avoid plants they will eat. — Mindy Baker, ...

If you have a garden plagued by rabbits, squirrels or deer, you know planting tulip bulbs can end up becoming a treat for wildlife, leaving the gardener without a floral display in the spring. However ...

Spring gardens thrive with bulbs, but many attract rodents. Choose rodent-resistant varieties with unappealing tastes or strong scents. Options range from tall orange blooms to compact blue flowers.

Emily Dickinson thought hope was the "thing with feathers," but a flower bulb seems like a better metaphor for hope. Tucked into the earth months in advance, bulbs are packed with promise of a ...

How can something so adorable be so destructive? If you have a garden—and you have rabbits that visit—you know they’ll mow down just about anything including annuals, perennials, and vegetables.

Fall is the perfect time to plant spring-flowering bulbs like tulips and daffodils since they need cold winter temperatures to break them out of their dormancy. After this, the flowers will begin ...