Pet-friendly outdoor plants
The vast majority of outdoor plants are perfectly safe for pets, although they might nibble them they are very unlikely to eat enough to make them sick. If you are at all anxious, choose from this list of plants that are known to be perfectly safe for pets. And specially selected for being good, healthy plants which have the Award of Garden Merit (AGM), which is the Royal Horticultural Society's (RHS) seal of approval for reliability in the garden. It helps you choose plants with confidence.
All pet friendly outdoor plants
1799 plants
Pet-friendly herbs
120 plants
Pet-friendly perennials
376 plants
Pet-friendly shrubs
318 plants
All plants (1907)
Nepeta x faassenii 'Kit Cat'
Blue catmint, Faassen's nepeta, Mauve catmint
Pachysandra terminalis 'Green Sheen'
Japanese spurge
Ribes rubrum 'Red Lake'
Mid-season red currant
Ribes uva-crispa 'Hinnonmaki Red'
Cooking & eating gooseberry
Rosa 'Belvedere'
Rambling rose
Rosa 'Mamma Mia'
Hybrid tea (large flowered) rose
Rosa Crimson Cascade = 'Fryclimbdown'
Climbing tea rose
Rosa Flower Carpet Scarlet = 'Noa83100b'
Ground cover rose
Rubus idaeus 'Tulameen'
Summer fruiting raspberry
Rubus Tayberry Group
Tayberry
Spiraea x cinerea 'Grefsheim'
Grefsheim spiraea
Abutilon 'Linda Vista Peach'
Chinese lantern, Indian mallow, Parlour maple
Aethionema grandiflorum
Persian stone cress, Persian candytuft
Agapanthus 'African Skies'
African Lily or Lily of the Nile
Agapanthus 'Flower of Love'
African lily, Love flowers
Agapanthus 'Sandringham'
African lily, Love flowers
Antennaria rosea
Rosy pussytoes, Rosy everlasting
Aquilegia flabellata var. pumila
Fan columbine
Aronia melanocarpa 'Autumn Magic'
Black chokeberry
Aster 'Ringdove'
Heath aster, Frost weed aster
Aster amellus 'Kobold'
Italian star-wort, Perennial aster, European Michaelmas daisy, Italian aster
Aster ericoides 'Brimstone'
White Heath aster, Frost-weed aster, Heath aster
Aster ericoides 'Golden Spray'
White heath aster, Frost-weed aster, Heath aster
Aster ericoides 'Pink Cloud'
White heath aster, Frost-weed aster, Heath aster
Aster novae-angliae 'Rosa Sieger'
New England aster, Michaelmas aster
Astilbe 'Straussenfeder' (thunbergii hybrid)
Thunberg's astilbe
Aucuba japonica f. longifolia 'Salicifolia'
Spotted laurel, Japanese aucuba
Berberis thunbergii 'Fireball'
Japanese barberry, Thunberg's barberry
Calibrachoa Million Bells Trailing Pink = 'Sunbelkupi'
Trailing petunia
Camellia japonica 'Berenice Boddy'
Japanese camellia, Common camellia
Camellia japonica 'Lovelight'
Japanese camellia, Common camellia
Camellia japonica 'Margaret Davis'
Japanese camellia, Common camellia
Camellia sasanqua 'Plantation Pink'
Sasanqua camellia
Camellia x williamsii 'Clarrie Fawcett'
William's hybrid camellia
Campanula x pulloides 'G.F.Wilson'
Black hybrid bellflower
Catananche caerulea 'Major'
Cupid's dart
Ceanothus 'Dark Star'
California lilac, Redroot
Cistus x aguilarii 'Maculatus'
Rock rose
Cordyline 'Purple Tower'
Cabbage tree of New Zealand, Giant Dracaena, Ti
Cordyline australis 'Albertii'
Cabbage tree of New Zealand, Giant Dracaena, Ti
Coreopsis 'Yellow & Red'
Tickseed
Correa rosea 'Marian's Marvel'
Australian fuchsia
Dactylorhiza foliosa
Madeiran orchid, Madeiran marsh orchid
Dahlia 'Bridge View Aloha'
Dahlia 'Charlie Dimmock'
Dahlia 'Lilac Marston'
Dahlia 'Yellow Hammer'
Diascia 'Rupert Lambert'
Twinspur