Get Green Fingered for Your Cat
As a nation of animal lovers and keen green fingered gardeners it seems only natural that we should combine the two and create garden masterpieces that appeal to our pets. Unfortunately we can often view our pets simply as garden pets as they chew on your favourite bedding plants and dig up your shrubs. However this is often due to us designing our gardens to meet our own needs and not that of our pets.
When catering for the feline kind you need to think about their species specific behaviour. Cats love hunting and stalking. They adore overgrown, secretive areas where they can hide and stalk their prey. If you want a happy cat provide areas of dense foliage and grasses using jungle-like planting. Create secret pathways connecting different parts of the garden together.
Cats are also tremendously territorial and love marking their territory by spraying abd scratching at tree bark. So avoid planting sensitive shrubs and conifers on the main pathway. Provide low posts with catnip planted around them. This gives them a ready-made scratch post to mark their kingdom.
If you want to keep cats off a particular area then plant densely preferably higher than their natural line of sight. Don’t plant isolated bushes with soil in between. Use ground covering plants to mark it as a no-go area.
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