8/18/2023 0 Comments Cat safe house plants low light![]() Watering: Regular or sporadic – just don’t over water.Ī popular houseplant that can grow two to six feet tall indoors in pots. Light Conditions: Bright but indirect light. Easy to separate and grow new plants from tendrils overall growth is inhibited by pot size. A spider will give flowers in the right conditions and will send out tendril offshoots as it looks to become mobile and spread. Bright indirect light and sporadic watering are all it takes for even the most useless gardener to keep this hardy plant alive and flourishing. Very easy to grow as it loves a wide range of conditions. Spider Plant/Airplane Plant/Spider Ivy/Ribbon Plant (Chlorophytum Comosum) Watering: Keep moist in spring and summer without making compost soggy. Light Conditions: Bright but indirect sunlight. If the leaves wilt you haven’t watered lightly regularly enough. Blooms yellow/orange flowers in late season. Likes some humidity and grows large leaves up to 30 inches tall. Watering: Likes humid environments and moist composts.Ĭalathea Rattlesnake (Calathea Lancifolia)Ī native of Brazil, the rattlesnake is not venomous to cats or humans! Likes Indirect bright sunshine and to be kept moist in spring and summer but not watered to soggy. ![]() ![]() Light Conditions: Medium to low indirect light Doesn’t flower but offers abundant greenery. In the wild fronds would grow 20 to 59 inches long and up to 8 inches wild but domestically you are unlikely to achieve such good growth. Comes from a tropical environment so likes humidity and moist soils but can put up with the odd dry spell. In the wild, this fern has a tendency to grow on trees, cliffs and other objects but you will probably buy it as a potted house plant. Originates from South East Asia, Australasia, Polynesia & Hawaii. Without further ado here are a bunch of completely harmless plants and flowers you can stick around the house and garden safe in the knowledge that kitty is absolutely safe :Ī great low light houseplant. It might be easier to have a short list to work off and also to know what these harmless beauties look like for easy identification. Well after reading through the seemingly never-ending list it occurred to me that it might be better to know which plants and flowers are not bad for my cat. ![]() Now, obviously, some need to be totally eaten in huge quantities to have a negative effect – but some, just inhaling the pollen as your cat walks by could be life ending! Turns out, by the looks of it, that most plants seem to be poisonous for my cat!Īccording to this site, there are literally hundreds of common, every day, flowers and plants that are poisonous. I went to check to see what house plants and garden plants were poisonous for my cat and got a bit of a shock. Think I’ll pick up a few Powerball tickets over lunch today, another thing I don’t normally do. For the life of me I can’t figure out what I was searching for when I found this, I am not a cat person, perhaps it was child safety around the home, in any case I contacted Anthony and he graciously gave me permission to repost it here on The Prepper Journal, something I don’t normally do either. Editor’s Note: Not your normal Prepper subject but I came across this excellent article by Anthony Duggan at Kitty Insight and was impressed with the detail and construction of the article and the useful information it conveyed.
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