Cats and foxgloves

Gloomendoom

We've got foxgloves everywhere. They are verging on becoming weeds. Never had problems with cats eating them. The only greens my cat ate was grass and olives. Sometimes he'd eat chips.


I expect they taste horrible... the foxgloves that is, not the cats.

xxvickixx

Fen1 wrote: »

The only plants I would not have in the garden with a cat are lilies of any type. The pollen is DEADLY to cats.

The cats don't eat the plant, but if they rub against it and pollen falls on them, then it's awful. They lick themselves clean ( as they always do ), ingesting the toxic pollen.

ALWAYS take off the stamens on bought lilies as well. Dispose safely, making sure that no pollen is scattered anywhere.

Is this all lilies? I'd heard about stargazer being poisonous but that's quite worrying, not that we have any in our garden but our cats do like to roam.

scarlet74

Thanks again everyone! Sounds like foxgloves are go. He's usual too busy licking marmite off toast and drinking the milk from cereal anyway.

As an aside, the foxgloves will be in quite a small courtyard garden, growing near (but not next to) some beans and courgettes. Does anyone think this will be a problem for us when we (hopefully) come to eat our crop? I'm not sure what I'm thiniking, really, so apologies is this sounds a bit...you know...stupid.

Farway

scarlet74 wrote: »

As an aside, the foxgloves will be in quite a small courtyard garden, growing near (but not next to) some beans and courgettes. Does anyone think this will be a problem for us when we (hopefully) come to eat our crop? I'm not sure what I'm thiniking, really, so apologies is this sounds a bit...you know...stupid.

Absolutely no problem, if it was the human race would have died out centuries ago

I have foxgloves, and lilies, and grow beans and courgettes

No knowledge but I suspect they are all different species anyway so just could not inter breed, bit like horses & monkeys, no way could you get a hybrid naturally

kimmee

My cat never eats flowers although he likes to smell them. He used to eat grass then I got rid of my lawn and he started on my ornamental grasses so this year I sowed him some cat grass.....he just turned his nose up at it and has never gone near it again :rotfl: