What plants are dog-friendly? These flowers and plants are suitable for pet-owning households

If you have a backyard, or like to grow lots of flowers and plants on your balcony, and you also have a pet dog at home, then you should avoid keeping plants that are harmful to dogs so that your family and pets stay safer and healthier.

Many pet dogs love to dig in the cool soil in the yard and will urinate in the grass, so we should avoid planting plants that are toxic to dogs.

Below we will introduce some plants that are relatively friendly to dogs and also look great. If you want to grow flowering shrubs that are relatively friendly to dogs, you can choose forsythia, meadowsweet, lilac, jasmine and gardenia, etc.

If you want to plant some more ground-hugging, creeping plants that are also relatively friendly to dogs, then I suggest you grow thyme, Irish moss, Sedum lineare and stringy stonecrop, etc.

Plants like lilies, narcissus, elephant's ear (Alocasia), amaryllis, carnations, chrysanthemums and rhododendrons should not be planted, though it also depends on how mischievous your pet dog is.

Besides growing some plants that are not toxic to dogs, you should also pay attention to routine fertilizing and spraying. It is best not to use compound fertilizers; using natural compost to grow flowers is the most suitable.

Using natural fertilizer to promote plant growth helps avoid harming puppies, because chemical fertilizers can make pets sick and can even be fatal if ingested. The nutrients in organic fertilizer are released slowly and will not burn the plants. You can dig holes beside the plants, bury the organic fertilizer in, and then water thoroughly.

Before growing plants, you can build some small fences along the side of the yard to separate the plants from your pet dog. Of course, you can also lay some cobblestone paths beside the flowers to keep your pet dog from digging directly in the yard.