unsafe plants

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just wondered if we could have a pinned section on unsafe garden plants?

seen some nice pictures today of peoples pets running around the garden but I'm unsure wether or not some of the plants are suitable?

I'm no expert myself so would be relying on others?

I'm a member of a cage & aviary bird forum and they have a section on plants suitable for aviarys and birds

Shaun
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we have a sticky that goes in that direction, though it is mostly about safe and unsafe vegetables as opposed to green stuff growing on peoples lawns. I am all for it, a thread like that would really come in handy.

However maybe we should post it in "food" rather than "housing" ;)
 
I think its an excellent idea! I also would like to know what garden plants are poisonous.
 
Azaleas and any bulb grown plant (like Daffodil, Hyazinth etc.), Rhubarb, Ivy, Night shade, Lilies all are poison for piggies and buns alike. There are lots more though.
 
buttercups too are poisonous to cavys. They were the only thing growing in our garden - had to pour boiling water over them to kill them off (boiling water kills everything, and no chemicals left behind to harm my pets), then put grass seed down.
 
It would be very useful for us to have a poisonous plants list to protect our little ones.
 
Here is a list of UNSAFE PLANTS:

Aconite
all evergreen trees and shrubs
and hemlock bark.
Anemone (windflower, tumbleweed)
anenome
Autumn crocus
avocado pips
Black locust
bracken
bryony
Buttercup
Caladium
Caster oil plants (castor bean, palma, christi.koli)
celandine
charlock
Cherry trees (wild and cultivated)
Christmas pepper
Clematis (virgin's bower)
convulvus
Cycads
Daffodil (narcissus, jonquil)
Daphne
deadly or black nightshade
Delphinum (larkspur, staggerweed)
Dicerna (bleeding heart, dutchman's breeches, squirrel corn, turkey corn)
Diffenbachia (dumb cane)
dogs/herb mercury
Elderberry
Elephant ear
English ivy
Euphorbia (annual poinsettia, mexican fire plant, fire-on-the-mountain, snow-on-the-mountain)
fools parsley
Four-o'clock
Foxglove
Garland flower
Glory lily (climbing lily, gloriosa)
Golden chain
hellebore
hemlock
henbane
Holly
horsetails
Hyacinth
Hydrangea
Indian spurge tree (pencil tree, malabartree, pencil cactus, monkey fiddle)
Iris
ivy
Jack-in-the-pulpit
Jasmine
Jerusalem cherry
laburnum,
Lantana camera (red sage)
Laurels
Lilac
Lily-of-the-valley
Marsh marigold (cowslip)
Matrimony vine
Mayapple
mayweed
Meadow saffron
milkweed
Mistletoe
Monkshood
Docks (some can be fed but difficult to distinguish – play safe, don’t feed)
Mountain laurel
Mushrooms (amanita muscaria&amanita phalloides)
Nightshade
Oaks
Oleander
Onions
Philodendron
Phytolacca (poke weed, poke berry, ink berry)
Pine needles
Poinciana (bird-of-paradise)
Poison hemlock
Poppy
Potato tops
Pothos
Privet
Pyracantha (firethorn)
ragwort
Raw beans
Rhododendron (laurels, rose bay, azalea)
Rhubarb
Rosary pea
scarlet pimpernel
snowberry
Snowdrop
Spring Adonis (pheasant's eye)
spurges
Star-of-Bethlehem
Strelitzia (bird-of-paradise)
Sweet pea
toad flax
travellors joy
Trumpet flower (chalice vine)
Water hemlock
wild and beaked parsley
Wisteria
Yellow oleander (lucky nut, tiger apple, be-still-tree)
Yew
 
Very good list.Can I just add that the moss which is found on lawns is very toxic,also bluebells and clover.
 
OMG! It is a miracle our piggies have survived so long in my ignorance! Perhaps they have a good inbuilt self preservation mechanism!
 
clover are you sure its poisonus my back garden lawn is full of it and my piggies have been fine with it and it is on the list as being ok :o
 
Sorry,my mistake,I meant daisy!.Clover,both red and white is safe in small amounts.The flower and leaves are o.k.Think I was having a senior moment there!
 
Phew thanks Mary! I have been giving mine Clover for ages so I was thinking they are stong things! :D I have been purposely picking the clover as they love it! I have some minor buttercups but not many but avoid them! I won't let Peter cut the grass!...lol :D
 
There is a type of clover, called OXALIS, which IS poisenous to piggies and buns. I only know that it has yellow flowers and the leaves looks different from the normal clover.
 
mackpossum said:
There is a type of clover, called OXALIS, which IS poisenous to piggies and buns. I only know that it has yellow flowers and the leaves looks different from the normal clover.
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Oxalis is wood sorrel. It is NOT poisonous. The reason why it's called Oxalis is because its leaves contain high levels of oxalic acid which can, in high levels, prevent absorbtion of calcium. This could obviously contribute to bladder stones in piggies but if they were to ingest some it is unlikely to kill them unless they eat a field of the stuff.
 
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