Hedging

[Bernie]

Last year I planted a Red Robin hedge.. I am plagued by rabbits and they have ruined it so I have to start all over again. Would someone recommend a nice hedge perhaps with a bit of colour/ flowers. What to do about the rabbits I don't know . This hedge will be at the rear of the house surrounding a concrete yard so a bit of colour would be nice. Thanks for any suggestions.

[Prudie]

I've always wanted an Oleaster hedge, the smell from their flowers fills the air with a heady lily like scent.
https://www.hedgesdirect.co.uk/acatalog/oleaster.html

[Chipchopper]

How about some prickly berberis or pyracantha ?, you get showy flowers followed by bird attracting berries, pleasing both birds and bees.

Check out the RHS website for rabbit resistant plants, loads there!

[atalanta]

I have a pyracantha hedge, and it does thrive, and it does grow fast. It is also very prickly/thorny. However, if you need to have a trimmed hedge, you will probably lose most of the bright-gold flowers in spring, and most of the purplish berries in autumn. But if you just want a vigorous hedge without much need for trimming or shaping, go ahead and grow pyracantha. ( Firethorn) It grows well from self-sown shoots and from cuttings.

[Chipchopper]

Atalanta, just curious, which pyracantha is it that you mention, that has "bright-gold flowers and purplish berries" ?
I don't think I've seen that variety before.

[TonyV]

Chip have a look at the RHS site you may be able to find it

[atalanta]

No idea. It was growing here when I moved in, and my mother who was a very keen gardener told me it was pyracantha. Leaf like a tiny holly leaf, very sharp, bunnies won't like it.

[Chipchopper]

Sounds like it could be a berberis, a close relative. Some of those have yellow flowers.