AOL: Simple Trick for Ensuring Cats Stay Safe Around Houseplants Is Downright Genius
Simple Trick for Ensuring Cats Stay Safe Around Houseplants Is Downright Genius
Epipremnum aureum ('pothos') is an aggressive grower & not really a good climber for palms. It branches readily and can cover the host. I let slower or smaller growing aroids climb my palms (like Monstera deliciosa, Rhaphidophora tetrasperma, etc). Large fast growers (E. aureum & E. pinnatum) are better suited to climbing tall straight pines & other conifers.
The Serenoa repens, in the lot next to my house, and the Pothos, a scrap from one of the house plants that got tossed in the woods next to my house, about 20 years ago, has really made ground with all the rain we've had this year, noticed how prolific it was, when I went to pic saw palmetto fruit...
About half of the palms cultivated in the area are defoliated. The first batch of pictures is from roaming around Turkey Creek in Palm Bay, of damaged plants that grow wild. Here are freeze damaged giant leather fern (Acrostichum danaeifolium), Florida Butterfly Orchid (Encyclia tampensis), and Golden Pothos (Epipremnum aureum)
When I first got my cats, my only houseplant was an unruly aloe, whose tentacles stretched out of it narrow windowsill pot and half-covered my kitchen window. It would be hard for the felines to reach ...
As a cat owner, you may find yourself wanting to bring a bit of greenery into your home while ensuring your feline friends remain safe. The good news is that many beautiful indoor plants are non-toxic ...