are any of these poisonous?

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  1. lesablack

    lesablack Apprentice Gardener

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    Actually - you don't have to tell me if they are poisonous, I'd just love help identifying them, and then i can look them up to check if they are safe...

    I'm attaching a pic here showing 6 plants. all of these have flowered in the past month or so.

    I moved to a new house 6 weeks ago; I have a 1.5 year old who is extremely inquisitive, and tends to investigate plants; and I don't want him chewing anything poisonous. I am learning slowly about gardening and really enjoy it, but have never learned to identify things, and although I'm pretty sure i know what a couple of these are, I just want to be sure so I don't end up with a poorly child.

    thanks for any help you can give.
    Lesley
     
  2. lesablack

    lesablack Apprentice Gardener

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    here is a bigger one in case you couldn't see this...
     
  3. Phil A

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    2nd & 4th ones look like aquilegias, very, very poisonous seeds.
     
  4. lesablack

    lesablack Apprentice Gardener

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    Thank you for the quick response!
    I suspected this. And stupid question, but where are the seeds in aquilegias - would it be easy for my son to find? I suspect I may be digging these up, sigh!
     
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    Easier to teach the child not to eat anything out of the garden. We had 5 very lively offspring and they never ate anything without checking first.
    Aquilegia seeds may be poisonous, but if you cut the flowering stems down once the flowers have finished, they never set seed.
    Sad to say, but an awful lot of the most common plants are poisonous, even Daisies and Buttercups.
    Sorry I cannot help ID the plants, but those of us who have Dialup find it almost impossible to see the thumbnail pictures at full size without a 6 months wait.
     
  6. lesablack

    lesablack Apprentice Gardener

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    THanks. I wish I could say that my son checked with me before he ate anything - at one and a half he's always putting things in his mouth and is generally swallowing before I notice he's even chewing. so far he's eaten grass, stones, shiny paper, bits of plastic toys... you get the picture....
     
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    1) Recognise it, but can't remember the name
    2) Aquilegia
    3) No idea
    4) Aquilegia
    5) Day Lilies
    6) Asiatic Lilies

    No idea if they are poisonous or not. As others have said, maybe it would be easier to instruct children not to eat garden plants willy nilly. Otherwise you could end up with a very plain garden if you rid it of anything that might be poisonous. We always had foxgloves growing the garden when I was a child and I was firmly told they were poisonous. The same with a Laburnum tree growing in a neighbours garden and shed it's flowers and seeds all over the pavement.
     
  8. Phil A

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    Daisies arn't poisonous, i make capers out of them. The lillies will get rid of cats, the pollen sticks to their fur & it kills them when they lick it off.

    Like the others say, tell child not to eat anything without checking with you.

    2 yew berries are enough to kill a child.
     
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    :thumb: OK remembered what the 1st one is, I am sure it is a Phygelius or Cape Fuchsia, (although not related to the Fuchsia family).. A beautiful plant we have 2 up at the farm so that is why it seemed familiar , but I have no idea if it is poisonous, many of our plants & flowers are poisonous in some way, but as has been said you have to educate him not to pick things up & put them in his mouth, we all had to learn as children too don't forget.. :wink: We have all been there with children wanting to put everything in their mouths.. I did with my own & now my grandchildren, never had a problem though..[FONT=Arial,Helvetica,Geneva,Swiss] :thumb:
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    3 are viola,
    5 is Hemerocalis or Day Lily
    Both of these have edible flowers, but perhaps if you started eating them it would give a confusing message to your son!
     
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    1, Phygelius
    2, Aquilegia
    3, Viola
    4, Aquilegia
    5, Hemerocallis
    6, Lily.:gnthb:
     
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