Indoor Plants

[PipnMe]

Hi all, I'm just wondering if there are any of you who keep a lot of indoor plants and have a reliable bird-safe plant list? I'm a big plant person but just found out that my Monstera is NOT BIRD SAFE and now I'm really sad and also curious to find out what else I might have that's not good (I mostly have things I know are pet safe, like ferns and palms). If you have a really good list, please send it my way!

Also, I really don't want to get rid of my Monstera, I've had it for ages, so I am thinking of putting it in the bedroom. Do any of you keep plants that are not on the birdie safe list in rooms that are far removed from your feathered friend?

 

[fiddlejen]

Well I'm not really a plant person. But I got a small aloe, and was worried about the budgies maybe eating the dirt in the planter it came in. So I put it into a small cage (too small for the budgies -- got it as a temporary cage when I first got them, but they quickly outgrew it). Well the Aloe is kinda sticking itself out the cage anyway so maybe Not a solution for a poisonous plant -- but -- IF you somehow had a very large cage on hand that doesn't have a bird, or can find one on facebook or somewhere -- I'd think maybe you could Cage the Plant. You'd need to be able to cage it so your bird canNOT get to it noway nohow. NO sticking-out leaves! AND you would need to decide whether it was still too risky. But, that is my one thought for you.

 

[noodles123]

The dirt is definitely a concern- not just or microbial reasons, but due to chemicals and things like perlite that are added to soil.

 

[fiddlejen]

The dirt is definitely a concern- not just or microbial reasons, but due to chemicals and things like perlite that are added to soil.

Perlite! Yep, that's what's in my Aloe's soil. So, Aloe lives in a little cage so Budgies can't get to his soil. Cage gets moved from window to window to capture my Very indirect sunlight here. Jefferson may view Aloe as an honorary Flock-Member -- not sure of that, but, Jefferson does occasionally like to stand atop Aloe's cage in that possessive way of his, whilst seeming uninterested in empty cages in the same spots.

 

[noodles123]

The dirt is definitely a concern- not just or microbial reasons, but due to chemicals and things like perlite that are added to soil.

Perlite! Yep, that's what's in my Aloe's soil. So, Aloe lives in a little cage so Budgies can't get to his soil. Cage gets moved from window to window to capture my Very indirect sunlight here. Jefferson may view Aloe as an honorary Flock-Member -- not sure of that, but, Jefferson does occasionally like to stand atop Aloe's cage in that possessive way of his, whilst seeming uninterested in empty cages in the same spots.

That's AMAZING-- my bird is fascinated with my plants, but they are far from where she generally hangs out, so she doesn't get too close ever because she can't gracefully navigate to where they are...She would totally mess with them if she could though. When we go to my parents' house, they have a window sill full of plants and those always get moved because she tried to get to them. I think this cage idea is very funny, and could actually be cute !

Also--- Perlite is technically a volcanic glass and since there isn't a ton of research on it with regard to parrots, I avoid it. It can cause impacted crops what I understand, but I am not sure what else...