Does your dog often eat random plants? I’ve kept dogs all my life until fairly recently and Ive always grown foxgloves and daffodils and rhubarb and potatoes and lots of other plants with poisonous foliage and the countryside is full of plants such as buttercups and ivy which would probably make a dog ill if it ate enough of them, but none of our dogs nor any of my family and friends’ many dogs have ever been made ill by eating any of them.
I’m really not poo-pooing your concern and care for your dog, but if you intend to remove all potentially harmful plants from your garden there’ll be very little left. Only necessary if your dog really is obsessed with eating garden plants. 😊
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Thanks. I appreciate what you are saying, but unfortunately he is a bit of a numpty who chews all sorts of things. Since this has popped up right at the front of the border, in temptation's way, it's better to be safe than sorry!
I think it's pelargoniums that are more of a problem than the perennial geraniums, particularly the scented ones. As they say though, everything is a poison, it's the dose that's important.
Here’s a list. We have nearly all of these in the garden, plus other potentially bad things and our dog has never shown any interest in any of them. Chocolate is another matter! He’s scared the life out of us by eating a whole bar, but was fine thankfully.
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eat random plants? I’ve kept dogs all my life until fairly recently and Ive always grown foxgloves and daffodils and rhubarb and potatoes and lots of other plants with poisonous foliage and the countryside is full of plants such as buttercups and ivy which would probably make a dog ill if it ate enough of them, but none of our dogs nor any of my family and friends’ many dogs have ever been made ill by eating any of them.
I’m really not poo-pooing your concern and care for your dog, but if you intend to remove all potentially harmful plants from your garden there’ll be very little left. Only necessary if your dog really is obsessed with eating garden plants.
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Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
I think it's pelargoniums that are more of a problem than the perennial geraniums, particularly the scented ones. As they say though, everything is a poison, it's the dose that's important.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.