Oh, Bunny!

Jascin N. Leonardo Finger • Jul 22, 2013

Or maybe I should call this the “Woes of a Gardener.”


What you are looking at is an absolutely adorable baby bunny who (yes, “who” – because we call him Mister Baby Bunny – although the Mitchell House intern thinks he should be named Peleg) is now twice his size after just a few short weeks. I am firmly convinced that baby bunnies eat 400 times their weight – each day! I battle rabbits and deer in my own garden but it has not been until recently that I had to battle them on Vestal Street. Since trying to restore plants that William Mitchell once had in his garden, I have scoured high and low to find the right plants. I do add some that were not necessarily on the list made by John Quincy Adams when he visited the Mitchell home in the 1830s but when I do, I try to find plants that were available in those days. This baby bunny made great hay (pun intended) munching away on my heirloom Heavenly Blue Morning Glories. As soon as they twisted up from the earth, he was upon them − and before I knew it! In one night in early June, he had a wonderful salad of approximately 350 seedlings – I planted 400. Last year, there was a wonderful display of Morning Glories on the front fence of Mitchell House, this year, we may have four. Oh well, I guess we contributed to his quick growth.


JNLF

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