I’ve always loved pansies. I love their bright vivid colours, and how unique and fun they are. Like little rays of flower sunshine in a garden. We always had purplish pansies growing in our little flower garden behind our house on the farm where I grew up. They were my favourite flowers in the world.

Every time I’ve planted them at this house they never seem to bloom very long. Last year finally figured out why. It is those sneaky bunnies! Those rascally rabbits hop their not-so-innocent little bouncy hop out of the forest and sneakily munch away at my pansy flowers! They are even conservationists – they eat the flowers and leave the of the plant intact so they can grow more flowers!

Now I’m all for supporting the rights of wildlife, but come on, isn’t it bad enough the deer eat my tulips? Do the bunnies have to eat my cheery little pansy flowers too?

This spring I think I have outwitted the bunnies for sure this time. I’ve planted pansies in the containers on the rail along the top of the of the side porch. No bunny under 6 feet tall will nibble on ’em now!

Here are a few pictures I took with my iPhone quickly before dashing off to work the other morning: