Urine resistant flowers or plants?

[Eastcoast]

Dog urine that is.

I want to dress up a tree well out front and I'm wondering what plants will add a little color and survive the onslaught of pee from our friendly k9 citizens.

[Braveheart]

Try the poison ivy, and when the owner pets them they get it too

[Polar Cub]

Basically, it's the salts, ammonia, and nitrogen that cause the problem. Extra watering to leach the ammonia salts, lime to neutralize the acid, and if that doesn't help, try a repellent with tobacco dust as the active ingredient.

[CHIOSSO]

chili pepper powder sprinkled around the area will help repel all dogs.

[guzzijason]

We put some of those decorative wire fencing panels (from Lowes) around ours to help keep the pests out.

__Jason

[Eastcoast]

Got it.

-Physical barrier.
-Repellent.

any plants that seem to be hardier to the slings and arrows of street life?

[Braveheart]

Got it.

-Physical barrier.
-Repellent.

any plants that seem to be hardier to the slings and arrows of street life?

Along with the poison ivy maybe something with thorns like;

> roses
> holly
> picker bushes
> that bush where when you touch it it stings for an hour?
> Venus pecker traps

[firething]

we have some green and white ivy out front that gets peed on about 100 times a day and still lives. It's in a pot is too high to pee on, but they get the leaves pretty good. I think Braveheart and the others are onto something. It has to be bushy/thorny/high enough that they can't pee right on the roots?

[Freckles]

I have a bunch of daylilies planted between my sidewalk and the road, and they hold up well. My own dog pees on them all of the time, let alone the dogs I don't see during the day.