Toxic plants

Anibody here grows toxic plants? I'm hardly interested in cicuta and aconitum napellus

Si, tengo un Galaxy Note 2... enorme.

 

I should think that half the plants in my garden are toxic ...

Ricinus definitely is but I have plenty of Aconites and Digitalis, and the sap from the Euphorbias is pretty irritating ...

 

With young kids in the house, I have to be careful.
I do have some Euphorbias (succulent types) but they are at the back of the bench (in the greenhouse), where I can barely reach them, never mind some little people.

 

Best to make them aware ... they will encounter poisonous plants in other people's gardens, and as such I've never thought it worth trying to exclude them from my garden, but rather to use them as a teaching aid instead.

 

My kids know not to fiddle with my plants.
But you never know.

 

With me it's the dogs I worry about. The puppy will chew anything and I have to be constantly watching her.

 

Many poisonous plants are exceedingly bitter, which puts of dogs and children alike after the first bite ... there is then the rest to worry about of course ...

 

I saw some horses in a field full of ragwort today.
I thought it was toxic, or do they avoid it if given the chance?
And only causes problems in hay.

 

The most common toxic, our beloved digitalis purpurea is not bitter.

Si, tengo un Galaxy Note 2... enorme.

 

They will avoid it by choice, same as cows, but it ends up in hay. A cow has to eat its own body weight in ragwort before fatal liver damage happens, but the trouble is it doesn't take too long for a cow to graze its own body weight, and the toxin in ragwort doesn't dissipate, it just builds up and up.

 

Ragwort is very poisonous to humans and animals. I'm not sure about the laws in the UK but it's illegal to let the plant grow here, although we see it everywhere. Seeds can lay dormant in the ground for twenty years. Ironically, ragwort is the islands national flower and many residents have tried to get it changed.

 

Had a couple of oleanders though they were killed by frost. All parts of the plant are toxic - even the smoke from it if you burn it.

 

It's illegal to let Ragwort set seed in the UK too Sheal, never known the law to be enforced though.

Heard of a few people being poisoned in Spain by eating barbequed meat that they'd skewered with Oleander stems.

 

I remember reading on here somewhere that a member had moved into a new house and their dog had eaten Aconite in the garden and was dead within half an hour. Terrifying. I have a puppy now who is teething and will chew anything, given the chance. I have had to plant the same plant three times recently! Felt as though I was stuck in a time loop. Point is that animals don't know what will harm them and what won't.