hi Cathy,
Can you get a good guard dog? Ducks.

Hello Cathy, the only plant I haven't had to fence in from kangaroos is lavender, specifically lavendula x intermedia and L. dentata (French lavender) and grevillia. I also put guards around young trees untill they are big enough to cope with kangaroo nibbles. Every other type of garden plant that I grow they will chew on, I had to make the garden fence higher last summer as one big roo decided he loved daylilies and jumped the fence every night to munch them into the ground!! I still love having them on the property tho :)

Hi Cathy, I have a beautiful garden, full of annuals, and I enter it every year in the garden competitions, I was having trouble with wallabies eating my pansies etc, what I did was collect all my dry dog droppings in a bucket and scrunched them up and scattered it all over my garden, it works the wallabies don't come near my garden anymore, so try it I am sure you will be very surprised.

Hi!
Daffodils!! That's about all i have found so far!! I have tried other bulb plants such as tulips, etc, but with no luck!! They have eaten my valerian and poppies, so i am hoping you have better luck than i have so far!
Cheers
Lyn

At my place, they won't eat Prickly Pear, Paterson's Curse or St John's Wort.....wish they would, but then, those species would hardly constitute an award-winning cottage garden.
I have a blue heeler that keeps the wallabies and 'roos away from my veges and orchard.

Regards,

Shax

I use an electric fence with 4 strands, the first one as close to the ground as possible.
Kris

Hi Cathy and other readers. I have 7 acres and do not want to fence or section off area's with large fencing to try to keep the kangaroos and wallabies at bay. I have found so far the the roo's don't seem very interested in passionfruit vines or star jasmin. We are planting well established shrubs and trees, they seem to love to eat new shoots and very young plants, roses and new growth on roses disappear over night. wisteria also seem to be a favourite, bougainvillea is still thriving hope this helps

I have planted a Queensland bottle tree, Bunya pine tree and an Illawarra flame tree and the wallabies leave those alone. Including the Silkfloss tree.
I hope this helps

Hi Cathy. Wallabies don't eat foxgloves.

Hello everyone below is a list of plants that i have found the wallabies DO NOT EAT & some they do. I am only a novice gardener so I will do my best with the names of the plants however I can assure you that they have not so far over the past year, eaten any of these plants out of my garden, so far. I hope this is helpful to somebody.

They have not eaten:

Jade plant

Cactus of any sort WITH hard spines on them, soft spines they do.

Yesterday, today & tomorrow

Yukkas

Flap Jacks

Curry Tree & curry plant, they eat the curry plant when small not when large.

Choc mint, mint, parsley ( They love Dill so protect at all times)

Basil of any variety

Parsley, garlic, garlic chives & chives when established, but will eat them when plants are small & not yet established,so protect when small

Cos lettuce they have left alone

Parlour palms in my green house they leave alone

Gerbras

Bromeliads

Cycads

Oleanders

Stag Horns & Elk Horns, mine are in a position they can reach

Citronella Geranium, any other geranium they love & cannot get enough of it will be ALL TOTALLY gone in one feed, so protect it form them.

Basically they have eaten every annual flower I have put in so don't bother unless you can protect them, save your money

Pink Poinsettia they have attacked not sure about the red or white

I hope this helps in some way to somebody "Good gardening everyone"

Cheers Shaz

Thanks for the don't eat list I have found couple more which can be propagated at home with out spending heaps..

Here are a few plants that grow in Tasmania that the native wallabies pademelons and possums don't seem to eat.

Wormwood

Vinca's, most varieties, good ground cover especially the varigated classes as a weed but a very useful plant. Chokes out weeds once established.

Japanese Korean and English privet.

Echieums most varieties.

Euphorbias generally but it's a huge family.

Daffodils, Narcissus,

I also have constructed 1.8 metre fence around my orchard as I haven't found a fruit tree that any single creature terrestrial or airborne won't eat!

Cheers

Michael

I see this is an old post but a never ending problem. In my experience in Tasmania the wallabies will have a go at anything small but as they get a bit bigger they don't seem to eat:

Westringia

Choisya Ternata (Mexican orange blossom)

Lavender until they get really hungry

Croweas

Acacias- I have scarlet blaze, copper tips and Tatura spindrift- slight nibble on the last one.

Lomandra Hystrix (but they do eat other lomandras)

Agapanthus (all except one small one seems appetising for some reason)

Magnolia little gem

Re Euphorbias Michael - something munched one of mine to the ground!

Regards,

Lynne

s anyone found if swamp wallabies eat Daphne?

regards,

Alex

I have just lost 2 dozen small dahlias in the last 2 weeks..pretty sure it is wallabies, going by the droppings. I am in Tassie. I am heart broken and do not know what to do.

Hi Jennifer,

I know that this is seven months late however this works well for me.

I'm in the Huon Valley and have problems with wallabies, possums and potaroos. I've found that the cheap chicken wire from shiploads, held in place with tomato stakes that are shorter than the top of the wire (thread the stakes through the wire) with weed mat pins holding the bottom of the wire down works well. The secret is to keep it flimsy but firmly secured in the ground. None of them like movement in the chicken wire. I've even cut the chicken wire in half (angle grinder while itsit's still rolled up) and used bamboo canes to secure it around little garden beds edged with stones with success. Dahlias are really tough and resilient hopefully they survived for you.

Marigolds! not one has vanished in my garden. In fact Salvia or anything red/orange or purple is untouched. My theory is orange and purple are hard to see, plus marigolds smell funny to them. It’s the small green leaves of shrubs and Bougainvilea that they love.