Joanna, I followed your kind advice and looked online for rabbit-proof perennials. To my surprise I found colombines.
As I took over this garden three years ago the old owners already had plantes lilies and colombines side by side. All this time I´ve been thinking they did it because they look great together, blue colombines with orange L. bulbiferum, white and pink columbines with purple martagons.
After learning they are rabbit-prooof, I now suspect the colombines were planted here as a defence line! The old owners aren´t around anymore and there´s no one to ask. But it´s an interesting experience, slowly beginning to understand how people in the past had exactly the same problems and how often they knew by heart, perhaps as a family tradition, techniques I have to learn online...
Anyway, the attacks I´ve had so far (rabbits and deer) were where I had just a few odd lilies and no colombines. So it might work. But the rest of my family is not as fond of colombines as I am, so I´ll have to stick to the ginger method...
