My set-up and bunny garden

This is my rabbit shed, Daisy the big french lop won't be in it for long, just until I build her another shed because she attacks the other bunnies (that's why there's a solid plastic barrier between the runs, she bites their noses!). At the minute Rocky and Clover are living inside the shed with their hutch open, nibbles and snuffles (on the right) have a hutch attached to a catflap so they can get outside whenever they want. When Daisy moves out Rocky and Clover will move into her hutch with her catflap so they have more room and access outdoors
Next to the shed i've started making a nice bunny garden, it isn't finished yet - still need to finish the fencing, add a small apple tree and paint flowers all over the back fence.
This is before grassing -
After the turf is down -
More recent photo (Daisy is more than twice as big as my other buns, the place is bigger than she makes it look!) -

Can't wait till the fences are secure so they can come out and play

That's a super set up and I love the way you have made a hidey hole in the garden that's brilliant, well done

hey that is fabulous!!! i love the idea of the bunny garden! the burrow is amazing never seen anything like that before!

Daisy is gorgeous even if she is a naughty bun i have 2 mini lops and the boy is the same colour as your Daisy

regards

Thanks!
It's a better version of what I made at my last house, I half buried plant pots and laid turf on top. It looked cool for a while but the turf died because there wasn't enough soil underneath.

This new rabbit hill was made using piled up concrete blocks then loads of soil packed on top to shape it, the grass is doing well on it but can't wait for spring when it really starts growing

im going to be showing that to my partner i would love something like that! so i would need to back fill it with a lot of soil? i have enough room to extend our run out and do something like that the giant pots again are a fab idea!

regards

Yeah for this new one the concrete blocks were used to get the basic shape and there's about 10cm of soil on top so the grass can grow properly. It would work with a big plant pot as a base as long as there's enough soil piled on top of it. My plant pots didn't work cos I put no soil on top, just rolled the turf onto it so it started dying off within a week. Needs watering quite a bit for the first few days but it should be fine once it takes to the soil

xfallenxskyx wrote:Thanks!
It's a better version of what I made at my last house, I half buried plant pots and laid turf on top. It looked cool for a while but the turf died because there wasn't enough soil underneath.

This new rabbit hill was made using piled up concrete blocks then loads of soil packed on top to shape it, the grass is doing well on it but can't wait for spring when it really starts growing

What a fantastic idea I love it

I love both set ups, I wanted something like the old set up for the buns as have no grass, its all mono blocked in the garden but my dogs would probs waste it or the cats dig it up doing their business in it, such a shame.

xfallenxskyx wrote:Yeah for this new one the concrete blocks were used to get the basic shape and there's about 10cm of soil on top so the grass can grow properly. It would work with a big plant pot as a base as long as there's enough soil piled on top of it. My plant pots didn't work cos I put no soil on top, just rolled the turf onto it so it started dying off within a week. Needs watering quite a bit for the first few days but it should be fine once it takes to the soil

thank you i'm loving your ideas !

regards

I love the new bunny garden When i saw your old version ive "seen" you somewhere before. In a youtube video, or pictures on Facebook, something to do with burgess? I could be going mad, but i KNOW ive seen your previous bunny garden before

marleyNfriends wrote:I love the new bunny garden When i saw your old version ive "seen" you somewhere before. In a youtube video, or pictures on Facebook, something to do with burgess? I could be going mad, but i KNOW ive seen your previous bunny garden before

Yep it would've been the burgess competition last year, I was in the top 10 I think it's still on youtube haha

What fantastic ideas!!!! Does the turf live well when sat on top of plant pots or hide boxes?

Dotdot wrote:What fantastic ideas!!!! Does the turf live well when sat on top of plant pots or hide boxes?

If there's a good few inches of soil on it then it should, never tried it on hide boxes, it might be hard to get it to grow up the sides unless you slope them a bit

What fabulous ideas, they are very lucky bunnies

Will be showing the pictures to OH later!