Annuals
Annuals are sold in droves at garden centers and valued for the instant,
long-lasting color they can inject into your landscaping.
But select your plants carefully if you have a dog that
goes outdoors and tends to eat your flowers.
The following annuals are poisonous.
In the North, where lantana is treated as an annual,
it is popular in hanging baskets and other container gardens,
in which its lively flowers grace many a porch or patio space.
Not only is lantana an invasive shrub in warmer areas
(where it is not annual), however, but it is also toxic.
Grow the plant up high in a hanging basket thus serves two purposes:
keeping the plant contained so it does not spread
and keeping the plant at a height where the dog cannot reach it.
Shrubs
Shrubs, along with trees and hardscape, help supply a "backbone" for the yard.
Any good list of shrubs will offer a glimpse into some of the possibilities
these workhorses of the landscape provide.
But several shrubs are plants poisonous to dogs:
- Rose of Sharon (Hibiscus syriacus)
- Yew bushes (Taxus)
- Mountain laurel (Kalmia latifolia)
- Hydrangea
- Burning bush (Euonymus alata)
- Azalea genus (Azaleas and rhododendrons)
- Boxwood (Buxus)
- Privet (Ligustrum)
- Daphne
- Andromeda (Pieris japonica)
一年生的植物
一年生的植物在花店裡通常是以一批批的方式賣出,
他們能夠替你的花園點綴出其持久的色彩.
但如果你有毛小孩且牠們喜愛到戶外走動,試著想吃這些花
這樣就要仔細挑選花園裡的植物.
以下的一年生植物是有毒的:
- 馬櫻丹
- 秋海棠
在北部,馬纓丹被當作一年生的植物,人們喜歡把它種植在掛籃或是
其他容器裡,其生氣勃勃的花朵點綴了許多門廊或是庭院.
不是只有馬纓丹在溫暖的地區是入侵類的灌木(在溫暖的地區就不是一年生),
但是它依然是有毒的.因此將馬纓丹種植在掛籃裡有兩個用意,
一個為防止其四處散布 ,另一個為避免狗狗接近.
灌木
灌木總是沿著硬體景觀設備或是樹木種植,像是提供庭院一個"支架"的感覺.
任何好的灌木清單都能看出其景觀主力的可能性.
不過一些灌木對狗狗有害.
- 木槿 (Hibiscus syriacus)
- 歐洲紫杉(Taxus)
- 山月桂 (Kalmia latifolia)
- 繡球花
- 衛矛(Euonymus alata)
- 杜鵑花(Azaleas and rhododendrons)
- 錦熟黃楊(Buxus)
- 女楨(Ligustrum)
- 瑞香
- 馬醉木(Pieris japonica)