I have 3 cats and they are always in my daylily beds with no ill effects to THEM....but they do plow through and break scapes or knock off pods now and then so my daylilies should be wary of the cats!🐱 They lay underneath daylily plants, nibble on daylily leaves, rub against them, sniff the pollen... you name it...they do it. My cats are now 'seniors' so all the years of nibbling and hanging out in my daylily beds hasn't harmed them, obviously. I've had other cats through the years who also ventured into the garden and none ever got sick. I know that a lot of daylily people are owned by cats so I can't imagine they'd let their cats in the garden if they were getting sick. I do also grow the true lilies (asiatics and orientals) that are the real culprits and are toxic but my cats seem to know not to mess with them. I can't say that there are no cats (or people) that wouldn't get sick from eating daylilies but I do know that in some cultures, daylilies are a food source, even considered a delicacy. When someone once questioned why I let my cats eat 'toxic' lilies I promptly ate a daylily bloom myself just to be sure it wasn't toxic. I'm still here and it wasn't bad.
