I've been reading up on bleeding hearts and got two plants I'm going to plant after frost, and bought some blue bleeding heart seeds that I am going to try to start. However, while. reading, I learned that bleeding hearts are toxic, particularly to dogs, and also to humans, and perhaps othere small animals (I am particularly worried about skin irritation to humans and neural toxicity to small dogs). I decided to wear rubber gloves while planting. I am more concerned about my little dog try to eat them, although he's never showed an interest in them, only eating grass in the spring. Do you have any suggestions for keeping small animals away from the plants? My plants will be in the front yard where there is not a fence and my dog never goes there unattended. I would just hate to cause any problems for animals if they might be attracted. Thank you.
I've been reading up on bleeding hearts and got two plants I'm going to plant after frost, and bought some blue bleeding heart seeds that I am going to try to start. However, while. reading, I learned that bleeding hearts are toxic, particularly to dogs, and also to humans, and perhaps othere small animals (I am particularly worried about skin irritation to humans and neural toxicity to small dogs). I decided to wear rubber gloves while planting. I am more concerned about my little dog try to eat them, although he's never showed an interest in them, only eating grass in the spring. Do you have any suggestions for keeping small animals away from the plants? My plants will be in the front yard where there is not a fence and my dog never goes there unattended. I would just hate to cause any problems for animals if they might be attracted. Thank you.