Flowers are safe treats for your tortoise. When looking for safe flowers for sulcata tortoises, you’ll find a wide variety ranging from roses to hibisicus to pansies. So, when shopping for flowering plants to grow, there’s a wide variety to choose from.
If you have a brown thumb or you don’t have the space to grow flowers for your tortoise, you can offer dried flowers to tortoises.
Growing Flowers for Sulcata Tortoises
Make sure that when you buy plants, you buy organic plants free of pesticides and herbicides. If you’re not sure, it’s best to treat all plants as though they are contaminated.
When you plant the flowers, keep your tortoise away from them for at least six months or more for the chemicals to outgrow the plant.
Safe Flowers for Tortoises
- Begonias
- Bluedicks
- Bugleweed
- California Poppy
- Calendula
- Chamomile
- Chinese lantern
- Chrysanthemum
- Cornflower or Bachelor’s Buttons
- Creeping Bell
- Desert Honeysuckle
- English Daisy
- Evening primrose
- Geranium
- German chamomile
- Globemallow
- Hibiscus
- Marigold
- Moon Flower
- Pansy
- Roses
- Sweet Alyssum
- Violets
- Welsh Poppy
- Wisteria
Toxic Flowers for Tortoises
- Azalea
- Buttercup
- Calla lily
- Daffodil
- Delphinium
- Four o’clock
- Gloriosa lily
- Hydrangea
- Iris
- Lilies
- Lily of the valley
- Marsh marigold
- Morning glory
- Oleander
- Trumpet flower (chalice vine)
Avoid flowering plants that have a bulb.
