Are Hawthorn Berries Poisonous To Pets – Indoor gardening is a great way to relieve stress, and when you’re doing it for your favorite pet, it’s an even better feeling knowing your pet is safe.
However, there are many plants that can be very poisonous to your pet if they end up eating them.
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Are Hawthorn Berries Poisonous To Pets
Dogs are one of the most curious pets and are more likely to end up chewing on your plants.
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Therefore, when deciding on an indoor garden, try to get plants that are safe for pets, and the good thing is that there are several safe indoor plants to choose from.
If you want to have a tropical look at home, then the banana plant is the best choice, and they are a great alternative to elephant ears.
Banana plants have lush green leaves that are huge and non-toxic. This stunning plant has about fifty species and is known to be native to:
Dwarf bananas are great as indoor plants, but you can even grow them outdoors as there are many varieties available.
Red Ripe Berries Of Hawthorn Branches With Dark Green Leaves. Autumn Harvest Of Medicinal Plants. Small Aperture, Blurred Background Stock Photo
As its name suggests, Boston fern is a plant in the fern category. This means that this plant looks stunning indoors when hung in baskets.
Haworthia is a stunning succulent plant. They look similar to aloe vera plants, but are not toxic to your pets if they end up eating them.
Haworthia has a stunning zebra design on its leaf that can add aesthetic appeal to your indoor garden.
Bromeliads are a group of plants that thrive in high humidity. They love the sun and can even survive indoors.
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Bromeliads have brightly colored foliage that looks stunning in any home. This plant does not grow flowers easily, but you can make bromeliads bloom again.
But once a bromeliad grows flowers, it’s a sign that it’s about to die. You cannot save your plant from this process as this is the life cycle for bromeliads.
Spider Plant is another plant that you want to have especially if you have dogs in your home
They have been known to survive the attacks of the most notorious plant killers, and look stunning when hung from baskets.
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It is always best to grow them indoors as they need to live in a controlled environment. However, you can easily propagate orchids from stem cuttings.
Calathea is another low-maintenance plant that is safe to keep in homes with pets. Its leaves are the most wonderful part because of the beautiful patterns on them.
So, if you want to have your own collection of Calathea plants, check out these 12 stunning Calathea varieties that you can grow indoors.
The African violet is a low-maintenance plant known for its tiny flowers that have the following shades:
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They are one of the perfect plants to keep indoors. Its binomial nomenclature and basic plant care requirements include:
This herb is a herb that is often used in cooking and is as common as rosemary or oregano. But unlike rosemary and oregano, thyme won’t make your pets sick.
Despite the long lineage of lipsticks, they are perfectly safe for your dogs (in case)
Sage is another herb that is commonly used in food. It is also safe for pets.
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The spotted plant, like other houseplants with red leaves, is a unique plant that has dark leaves with several pale pink spots on them.
It is also a hardy plant and can handle strong sunlight that may be too strong for your other houseplants.
The friendship plant, also known as the Moon Valley Pilea, is a lovely houseplant that has wrinkled ombre colored leaves.
The colors on the leaves fade from dark red-brown to light green. It is also a low maintenance plant and is quite hardy.
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Basil is another garden herb that is often used in cooking. Not only is it pet-friendly, but it can make your pasta and pizza delicious.
The wax plant, commonly known as the Hoya plant, is a beautiful plant that has thick green leaves and tiny flowers that look like wax.
The Venus Fly Trap is a formidable plant; however, apart from harming small insects as they are carnivores by nature, it cannot harm your pets.
The hawthorn berry is a stunning tree that can be grown as a dwarf tree, or if planted outdoors, it can grow into a larger tree.
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When it begins to bloom, it will grow white flowers that will in turn become red berries. These berries are even useful for dogs as they are used as supplements.
Crepe myrtle is not a huge plant, but you can prune it to give it a similar appearance to shrubs and trees.
Lace Flower Vine is a great looking plant that looks best when hung in baskets. This plant is also considered low-maintenance, as it has long hanging stems and leaves.
Air plants are slow-growing, low-maintenance air plants. This plant stays small in size and looks stunning when hung in baskets.
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Although the Christmas cactus looks similar to the Thanksgiving cactus, it is a safer alternative to plants for dogs
Christmas cactus is a stunning plant that is often confused with Thanksgiving cactus because of their similar appearance.
This plant looks beautiful on the shelves because it only grows to about 30 cm in height and 60 cm in width.
This unique plant looks like a small tree and can be grown even indoors. It is a great choice for new plant enthusiasts as it is low maintenance.
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Gloxinia, known for its trumpet-shaped flowers, is the perfect gift for a friend who loves both dogs and plants
These festive plants have trumpet-shaped flowers that give a sense of victory when given to others. Gloxinia flowers can be found in the following colors:
This plant is also low maintenance and has other special features, such as leaves that tilt towards the ground at night and come straight back up in the morning.
Taking care of your pets is everyone’s number one priority, but that doesn’t mean you have to give up your passion for plants. Harvesting hawthorn berries is new to me this year. They are sweet and mild if you get them at the right time, and in previous years I tasted them too early in the fall. This year, Washington hawthorn was sweet and mild in late October. But by then the one-seeded hawthorns have started to rot, so next year I’ll look for them in mid-October.
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I credit Josh Fecteau’s recent hawthorn post with inspiring me to try hawthorn berries again. As Josh points out, there are many species of hawthorn, maybe 50 in New England. And, in all of North America, probably a thousand species, according to George Symonds (from his wonderful Tree Identification Book: A New Method for Practical Tree Identification and Recognition
, my favorite tree ID learning guide). Fortunately, you don’t have to be able to identify specific species. You just need to know it’s a hawthorn, because all hawthorns have edible berries. HOWEVER, like apple seeds, hawthorn seeds contain cyanide and should not be eaten. Don’t panic; just spit out the seed.
Why bother with hawthorn? They are beautiful, interesting and delicious wild edibles with known health benefits. Some people use the berries to make hawthorn jelly, but I have yet to try this. The berries, leaves and flowers can be used to make tea. Scroll to the bottom of the page to see how I make hawthorn berry extract.
I will describe two types here, to illustrate the general characteristics. That should help you recognize a hawthorn when you see one, but I do
Crataegus Marshallii (hawthorn, Parsley Hawthorn, Thornapple)
If you’re not sure you have hawthorn while foraging, check with additional sources until you’re sure, before eating the berries.
It grows as a small tree or large shrub and bears clusters of white flowers in late spring. The berries turn red in September (here), but later become sweet. By October 31, they were sweet, and maybe a little past their prime. Each berry has 3-5 seeds.
The leaves are lobed and toothed, as you can see in my photo above. Many other species of hawthorn have similar leaves. The tree is heavily armed with long thorns, up to about 3 inches in length. However, with reasonable care, you can easily pick the berries, which tend to hang from the branches. It’s even easier later in the season after many leaves have fallen and are no longer obscuring the thorns.
Also called common hawthorn, this is a European that escaped cultivation and naturalized in North America. It’s sometimes labeled as an invasive plant, but I don’t find it often, and when I do, it’s not a lot in one area. It may be invasive in other parts of the country, but it doesn’t seem particularly aggressive here. Like Washington hawthorn, single-seeded hawthorn grows as a shrub or small tree and bears clusters of white flowers in late spring. The oval red berries ripen slightly earlier (than Washington hawthorn) in the fall and contain one seed (hence the name). Serrated