Cat Friendly Garden Design

Cat fencing if used properly allows cats to enjoy the best of both indoor and outdoor spaces.

Cat friendly garden design. Cats love to lounge in the sun but can be prone to sunburn. Kitty entertainment at its best. You can even make a bean teepee for them.

Runner beans can also be used in your cat friendly garden to create secret hideaways and provide shade. Moving water is always fun in a cat garden. After a long hard winter i m thinking about getting seeds in the ground for me and my cat.

How to design and plant a garden for you and your cat. If you re not taking your cats out in the garden on a harness demerchant suggests containing your cat with a tall fence or creating an enclosure or outdoor cat kennel with mesh material which is known as a catio. Lavender is a great herb to plant in a feline friendly garden providing a bushy and attractive hiding place for cats.

Cat gardeners also suggest including a water source which could be a fountain or a pond. And if your cat nibbles on them which in all likelihood they won t they are not considered toxic. Cats are drawn to the mint family in general but peppermint is great for your garden not only for the epic smell and making yourself some home brewed peppermint tea but it also keeps away mice.

If you want to keep a particular section of your garden away from prowling paws try incorporating plants with repellant smells such as plectranthus caninus also known as coleus canina or scaredy cat plant or aromatic herbs like lavender rosemary or helichrysum italicum curry plant which some cats dislike and may avoid. Jenny and lulu birdwatching. During the winter i put a birdfeeder in the cat garden.

A cat needs a garden with sunny corners for snoozing and shady spaces for when the sun is really shining. Herbs that are good for cats health. Tall plants to hide under and stalk through the undergrowth like a tiger.