Going fake

It is a constant battle at my house to keep all the wild life away from my landscaping.  Deer, rabbits, racoons, squirels, birds you name it we have them!  But right now it is the rabbits that are the worst.  I thought they ate mainly my grass, but I have since learned I was wrong, really wrong.

A couple of months ago I was so excited to show you the cute radio flyer wagon I got and the colorful plants I planted in it

Well, a week later it looked like this

At first I thought the deer some how got in and ate my plants.  But there is no way they can get in, and the closer I looked, I saw the evidence of bunny droppings inside the wagon.  Duh!  Rabbits can hop, and I am sure hopping up onto the wagon was no big deal for them.  UGH!  What was I suppose to do?  Put a cage around this cute wagon to keep them out?  That isn’t appealing, so I decided to fake them out.  I bought some nice looking fake plants at Ikea and planted them in the wagon. {4.99 each}

I added some estate sale finds as containers to spruce it up a bit

I even “planted” one in the ground to look more realistic LOL

I have some real plants still surviving in the wagon that I am going to try and keep alive.  I was thinking I might spray them with tabasco sauce as a deterrent if a rabbit should try and nibble on them.  Worth a try right?  I don’t know if it will kill the plants or not, or even if the rabbits would mind the taste, but I thought this would be a good trial and error spot to try it on.  If it works, I am going to Costco and buying gallons of it and start spraying it everywhere!

I didn’t just add fake plants to the wagon either.

I picked up this cute bench at an Estate sale last month and a cute pail to put next to it to fill with flowers {that was the plan until I saw what the rabbits did with the wagon}

So I added more of the Ikea plants to the bucket too

I would really like to have colorful plants in the wagon and the pail, but something is better than nothing at this point.   Honestly, these plants from Ikea are pretty darn real looking, I am not minding them at all.  Let’s just hope the rabbits aren’t into fake.