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 Posted: Fri Nov 30, 2012 8:51 pm
I'll try to work on making this more informative at a later date, should I not forget, but for now - discussion/questions.
Main reason I'm posting is (in the spring) I plan on kicking my fern outside (assuming it's still alive then - Saphi and I have been working together on its demise the past few months). I'll most likely want to get a different indoor plant, just because they're nice to have. Thing is, I need something hardy and low maintenance or else I'll kill it (I don't have the capacity to suitably fuss over plants and animals - my rose died after I got my fish, fern here started going downhill after I got Saphi); can potentially go a week or so without water, doesn't need direct sunlight (it just doesn't exist in my house - I go with natural (sun) lighting as much as possible, but I don't get rays of sunshine streaming through my windows), and is cat safe (part of the reason fern's dead is from her nibbling on the leaf-ends).
I'm thinking I want to try my hand at cactii - just need to be assured that she'll be all right, other than some sore spots from the pricklies, when she tries to take a chomp out of them.
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Posted: Fri Nov 30, 2012 8:52 pm
Dangerous Plants -Pointsettias -Lilies (specifics?)
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Posted: Fri Nov 30, 2012 8:53 pm
Cat-Friendly Plants -Catgrass -Catnip
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Posted: Sat Dec 01, 2012 3:20 am
I've got a spider plant that is relatively hard to kill... the downside is that cats seem to love eating it. Cricket used to pull off the baby plants and leave them to go limp before eating them whole, but Minstrel just eats it at every chance. I did read once that it isn't hazardous to cats, but I don't know where... I'm assuming it isn't though because they're both still alive.
I have an ornamental pot-bellied fig that I still don't know whether it is safe for cats and dogs. Fortunately, nobody has tried to eat it yet, but I can't seem to chase it down anywhere...
And I used to have a lot of cacti when I had Cricket and he never touched them, as far as I saw. If you got a really spiky one, they aren't going to be able to ingest it, at least.
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Posted: Sat Dec 01, 2012 7:19 am
Freddus If you got a really spiky one, they aren't going to be able to ingest it, at least
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Posted: Sat Dec 01, 2012 1:25 pm
~ Aki - Fairy ~ That's kind of what I was figuring, that it'd be a good way to teach her not to touch plants so much And, for that matter, she might not even realise a cactus is a plant. They aren't exactly green and leafy...
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Posted: Sat Dec 01, 2012 5:21 pm
Freddus ~ Aki - Fairy ~ That's kind of what I was figuring, that it'd be a good way to teach her not to touch plants so much And, for that matter, she might not even realise a cactus is a plant. They aren't exactly green and leafy...
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Posted: Sat Dec 01, 2012 9:20 pm
Im horrible with plants too. Like...horrible. HORRIBLE. They all die within hours. D:
I want to try cactus. I think theyre perfectly safe around cats bacasue most smaller species of cacti arent poisionous. And cat would learn its lesson rather quick if it tried to eat it or bat at it. smile Im gonna get one when I move. I love Cactus!
I did have this one I got when I was about 11 for my Dad for Fathers day. It got watered once a year, we moved it to a bigger pot once and it passed away just last year. (So sad. D: Cacti lived to be 13). He started off as one little thumb and ended up a mass of cactuses.
I cant believe I dont have a pic of him. D: They are hardy and resilant and dont require alot of work.
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Posted: Sun Dec 02, 2012 3:15 am
I had a cactus once that I over-watered and so it died... except I was lazy and left it sitting on my windowsill. About two years later I realise that it had come back to life... trippy.
Most cacti need more water than people think... which is why I now stick to obvious plants that I can water every day without killing, preferably ones that don't die if I then forget to water them for a month.
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