plants for dogs

kylith

Once again I find myself having to practically redo my garden. Last year I got some azaeleas, some rodedendrons, and some various other stuff. Unfortunately feck all has come up this year having all apparently died over the winter. I'm starting to think that it must have to do with the fact that my dogs pretty much only wee in my flower beds.
Ultimately I'll want it to be fairly low maintenance, with the same plants throughout so it looks cohesive as the garden is pretty small. One side of the garden is constantly in light shade, the other side gets sun pretty much all day. Currently surviving in there is deadnettle, dicentra, a geranium, and a camellia. On the sunny side there's deadnettle and some pelargonia.

I was thinking of some phormium, hostas like Halcyon, some more geraniums. Would you say these would be ok? I can't really afford to keep replacing plants.

bget

Some nice hardy roses my be a good idea, plenty of colour all summer long, nice smell and the thorns might keep the dog away!!
Generally you can pick them up for around 7 euro up each and once they are pruned back well each year should last for quite a number of years

Sonnenblumen

Some low growing prickly evergreen with long flowering shrubs might be worth considering?

For example: Perynetta, Berberis buxifolia nana.

Herbaceous: persicaria darjeeling red are very durable and should be capable of wsurviving an occasional sprinkling of 'acid rain'

kylith

Thanks for that. The persicaria might be just what the doctor ordered.

I've though about roses, but the thorns put me off them, that and the fact that there's been one in there for 10 years that's never had so much as a bud on it *sigh*.

I'm quite lucky with the dogs; they're not diggers at all so I'm not worried about keeping them out of the flower beds, more with getting plants that won't die of wee poisoning.