How Does My Garden Grow?

I don't know how it's growing because some pesky varmits are EATING IT!
This is varmit #1, the smallest. I've named him IVAN. Yep. Ivan the Terrible Rabbit.

This is the worst year for rabbits, EVER. I truly can't recall such an abundance of the little long eared suckers. They're everywhere. When I pull into the driveway in the late evening, I usually see 2, sometimes 3, hopping away.

They are living the high life in my lavender. Literally-IN my lavender. They've made themselves a nice little LIVING sachet, all bedded down in the wood chips. I know that's where they are sleeping because when they scamper out in the early morning I always get a waft of lavender.

They are mocking me.

They nibble just enough from my petunias to wreck the blooms and let the plant live. Barely.


They nibble at my perennial bachelor buttons. They even had the GALL to nibble off a blossom AND LEAVE IT LAYING THERE, mocking me.

They nibble my asters down to nubs. Goodbye, late summer blooms.


I do miss our pooch. A combo of his "morning constitutional" (thanks, APP) and his daily brushings kept the rascals out of sight. I've had offers of a wrist rocket deadeye, suggestions of blood meal and human hair. Hmmm.

For now, they are safe. They can mock me-as long as they let my garden grow.