Dog Friendly Outdoor Potted Patio Plants
I noticed that a lot of our visitors are looking for pet safe plants that grow well in containers like pots and could grow well outside even in limited space, for example on a patio or balcony. So I decided to create a list that checks all those boxes. Before we list something as pet safe aka dog-friendly or cat-friendly, I check the flowers on the ASPCA website list of nontoxic versus toxic plants and do extensive internet research for both the common and scientific name just to be super pet safe. If we cannot find direct reference, we check up to genus and so on until we can confirm whether a plant is toxic or non toxic to either cats or dogs. If we are not sure, or get contradictory information, we do not include it. Many of the plants featured we have grown successfully in our own pet safe garden in Northern California. You can see many of garden stars in photos from Lovie’s Pet Safe Garden. The following is a list of plants that are safe for dogs, cats and horses.
310 Container Plants That Grow Well on A Patio:
Achira
African Daisy
African Violet
Aluminum Plant
American Rubber Plant
Antirrhinum Multiflorum
Arabian Gentian
Areca Palm
Artillery Plant
Autumn Olive
Baby’s Tears
Bachelors Buttons
Begonia
Belmore Sentry Palm
Black Haw
Black Hawthorn
Bloodleaf
Blue Echeveria
Bold Sword Fern
Bottle Palm
Burro’s Tail
Butterfly Ginger
Canna Lily
Cape Marigold
Carolina Hemlock
Cast Iron Plant
Cat Brier
Chickens and Hens
Chinese Plumbago
Chlorophytum
Christmas Cactus
Cocks Comb
Common Camellia
Common Snapdragon
Confederate Jasmine
Copperleaf
Coral Bells
Coreopsis
Creeping Charlie
Creeping Gloxinia
Creeping Mahonia
Creeping Pilea
Crisped Feather Fern
Easter Cattleya
Easter Daisy
Easter Lily
Easter Lily Cactus
Edible Banana
Elephant Ears
Emerald Ripple Peperomia
English Hawthorn
English Ivy
Fairy Fountain
False Aralia
Fan Tufted Palm
Feather Palm
Fennel
Fiery Reed Orchid
Fig Leaf Gourd
Figleaf Palm
Fingernail Plant
Fire Weed
Flame of the Woods
Florida Butterfly Orchid
Fluffy Ruffles
Fortunes Palm
Freckle Face
Friendship Plant
Gerber Daisy
Gherkins
Ghost Leafless Orchid
Ghost Plant
Giant Aster
Giant Holly Fern
Giant White Inch Plant
Globe Thistle
Gloxinia
Golden Bells
Golden Lace Orchid
Golden Shower Orchid
Grape Hyacinth
Grape Ivy
Great Willow Herb
Greenbrier
Hagbrier
Haws
Haws Apple
Hawthorn
Hedgehog Gourd
Heliotrope
Hellfetter
Hemlock Tree
Hen and Chickens Fern
Hens and Chickens
Hibiscus
Hoary Alyssum
Hollyhock
Honey Locust
Honey Plant
Honeydew Melon
Honeysuckle Fuchsia
Hookera pulchella
Hubbard Squash
Ice Plant
Irish Moss
Ivy Peperomia
Jackson Brier
Jacob’s Ladder
Japanese Aralia
Japanese Moss
Japanese Pittosporum
Japanese Show Lily
Jasmine
Jewel Orchid
Jungle Geranium
Kaempferia
Kahali Ginger
Kenilworth Ivy
Kharoub
King Nut
Kuang-yen-pa-hsieh
Lace Orchid
Ladies Ear Drops
Lagerstroemia Indica
Lance Pleomele
Laurel-Leaved Greenbrier
Leather Peperomia
Lemon Balm
Leopard Lily
Leopard Orchid
Lesser Snapdragon
Lily
Lily of the Valley Orchid
Linden
Lipstick Plant
Little Zebra Plant
Living Rock Cactus
Living Stones
Loco Weed
Locust Pods
Madagascar Jasmine
Magnolia Bush
Mahonia
Majesty Palm
Malabar Gourd
Malaysian Dracaena
Maranta
Measles Plant
Mexican Firecracker
Mexican Rosettes
Miniature Date Palm
Miniature Maranta
Mistletoe Cactus
Mockernut Hickory
Money Tree
Mosaic Vase
Moss Campion
Moss Fern
Moss Phlox
Mossy Campion
Mountain Camellia
Mountain Grape
Mulberry Bush Greenbrier
Mulberry Tree
Musa Paradisiaca
Muskmelon
Nasturtium
Natal Plum
Nerve Plant
Night Blooming Cereus
Old Man Cactus
Orange Day Lily
Orange Star
Oregon Grape
Paddys Wig
Pampas Grass
Pansy Orchid
Parsley Fern
Peacock Plant
Pearl Plant
Peperomia Peltfolia
Peperomia Rotundifolia
Peperomia Sandersii
Peruvian Lily
Petunia
Pheasant Plant
Pignut Hickory
Pilea Microphylla
Pilea Mucosa
Pincushion Flower
Pink Brocade
Pink Splash
Queens Spiderwort
Queensland Arrowroot
Rainbow Orchid
Red Berried Greenbrier
Red Edge Peperomia
Red Hawthorne
Red Lily
Red Maple
Red Palm Lily
Red Veined Prayer
Resurrection Lily
Roosevelt Fern
Rose
Rose of China
Rose of Sharon
Rosemary
Rubrum Lily
Russian Knapweed
Russian Olive
Saffron Spike Zebra
Sage/ Salvia
Salad Burnet
Sand Verbena
Satin Pellionia
Savory (Summer)
Savory (Winter)
Sawbrier
Scabious
Scarborough Lily
Scarlet Sage
Shagbark Hickory
Shan Ku’ei-lai
Shellbark Hickory
Shrimp Cactus
Silver Bell
Silver Berry
Silver Pink Vine
Silver Star
Silver Table Fern
Slender Deutzia
Small Fruited Hickory
Smilax Tamnoides Vas
Speckled Wood Lily
Spice Orchid
Spider Flower
Star Jasmine
Star Lily
Stargazer Lily
Stevia
Strawberry
Sudan Grass
Sugar Pods
Sulfur Flower
Summer Hyacinth
Sunflower
Swamp Sunflower
Swedish Ivy
Sweet Pea
Sweet Potato Vine
Sweetheart Hoya
Sword Fern
Tailed Orchid
Tall Feather Fern
Tall Mahonia
Teasel Gourd
Texas Sage
Thea Japonica
Thimble Cactus
Thorn Apple
Thyme
Ti hu-ling
Tickseed
Tiger Lily
Toad Spotted Cactus
Torch Lily
Tous-les-mois
Tree Cactus
Tree Gloxinia
Tropical Moss
True Cantaloupe
Tu Fu-Ling
Tulip Poplar
Turban Squash
Turf Lily
Umbrella Plant
Urbinia Agavoides
Venus Fly Trap
Verona Fern
Verona Lace Fern
Vinca
Vining Peperomia
Violet Slipper Gloxinia
Water Hickory
Water Hyacinth
Watermelon Begonia
Wax Rosette
Weeping Bottlebrush
Weeping Sargent Hemlock
Weisdornbluten
West Indian Gherkin
Western Sword
White Edged Swedish Ivy
White Ginger
White Heart Hickory
Whitman Fern
Wild Buckwheat
Wild Hyacinth
Wild Lantana
Wild Sasparilla
Wild Strawberry
Willow Herb
Wood Lily
Yellow-Flowered Gourd
Yellowrocket
Yorba Linda
Zebra Haworthia
Zinnia
Zucchini Squash
