Cut flowers
Lilies
Lilium
- Cat: toxic
- Dog: not toxic
- Light: bright, no harsh sun
About the plant
Lilies smell strongest in the evening, and one stem opens its buds over many days. The pollen stains fabric for good, so the anthers are pinched out as soon as a flower opens. For a cat the lily is deadly: in a home with a cat, better choose another bouquet.
Lilies and pets
- Cat
- toxic
- Dog
- not toxic
- Signs
- in cats: vomiting, loss of appetite, lethargy, acute kidney failure and death, even from licking the pollen or drinking the vase water; dogs are not affected
The ASPCA entry is for the Easter lily (Lilium longiflorum); other true lilies (Lilium) and daylilies (Hemerocallis) are as dangerous to cats.
If a cat or a dog ate this plant and shows signs, contact a vet straight away.
Instead: safe for cats and dogs
Care
- Light
- bright, no harsh sun
- Air humidity
- normal
- Temperature
- 10–22 °C
- Feeding
- not needed
- In a vase
- usually last about 12 days; change the water every 3 days
- Grown
- cut, in a vase
The buds open one after another; pinch out the anthers before the pollen stains the cloth and petals. In a home with a cat, better no lilies at all.
This is a rough guide for a flat in Poland. In flowers every plant also has its own watering interval, which learns from how the soil was.