PLANTS YOU LOVE

[Irwin4530]

O.K everyone, I need your advice....
Spring is here and I have a few new enclosures that
need planting. I use the grassland tortoise mix and sometimes sod,
Hosta and hybiscus (spelling) but a girl needs options. I have read the list
of acceptable plants and have even tried a few but i am not "in love" with
any of them....they all seem to get trampled and never recover.
I would like to start planting now so they have a few weeks to adjust before the torts go out.

QUESTION:
what plants to you guys love? I mean one you ALWAYS put in your enclosures? (I am in NJ so not all cactus is an option.)

THANK YOU!!

 

[pam]

Mine love to eat the wild violets they are hardy and pretty

 

[Yvonne G]

If you can get rose-of-sharon established, it grows either into a bush or a tree (depending upon how you prune it) and its edible. It blooms all summer long and goes dormant during the winter. Its a great plant in the tortoise habitat.

 

[Laura]

pansies... nastursiums...spider plant.. clovers,

 

[Tom]

Grape vines. Mulberry trees for very large enclosures. Try a russian tortoise mix. Lots of good broad leaf weeds in there.

 

[terryo]

I love creeping jenny and sedum for ground covers. They spread quickly and mine walk all over them and nothing stops them. I also love Rose of Sharon. A small fig tree. In the Summer I put lots of pansies, and petunia's. And of course dandelion.

 

[Katherine]

I love creeping jenny and sedum for ground covers. They spread quickly and mine walk all over them and nothing stops them. I also love Rose of Sharon. A small fig tree. In the Summer I put lots of pansies, and petunia's. And of course dandelion.

+1. Under the fig tree is where my tortoises spend 80% of their time. Great shade cover, attractive tree, hard and edible.

 

[Tom]

I love creeping jenny and sedum for ground covers. They spread quickly and mine walk all over them and nothing stops them. I also love Rose of Sharon. A small fig tree. In the Summer I put lots of pansies, and petunia's. And of course dandelion.

Which type of sedum Terry? There are many types available here, and apparently some of them are toxic.

 

[Lunartwist]

Viola goes crazy for clover. Its like candy for her. She'll even ignore the bright yellow color of dandelion flowers (also a favorite) in order to devastate whole clover patches. You can find seed packs for clover at pretty much any Co-Op supply store. I think they sell the seed mixes for horses, but during the winter I grow some for a treat for Viola. In the summer, I set her out in mixed patches of clover, dandelion, and plantain, but she always goes for the clover first!

 

[pam]

Which type of sedum is toxic?

 

[terryo]

This is the list that I use for all my gardens, box turtles and my tortoises.
http://www.africantortoise.com/edible_landscaping.htm
I don't know the name of the sedum, but it makes little yellow flowers in early Summer. The list says Sedum Spp.

 

[dmmj]

I love my grape plants, my tortoises love them and they have been providing free food now for about 10 years.

 

[DesertGrandma]

I also am enjoying my grapevines. Just planted them in the Fall (soon after lost their leaves), and they have come back beautifullly. Loaded with leaves that my tort loves.