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What to look for this month

Alexanders (Horse Parsley, Smyrnium)

Dandelion

Bittercress

Abutilon (Flowering Maple, Chinese Lantern)

Cat's Ear (Cat's Ears, Cats Ears, Catsear)

Chickweed

Pansy

Plantain (Broadleaf Plantain, Common Plantain, Narrowleaf (Ribwort) Plantain, Sand Plantain)

Opuntia Cactus (Prickly Pear/Nopales)

Mind-Your-Own-Business (Baby's Tears)

Sedum Album (White Stone Crop)

Welsh Poppy

Corn Salad (Lamb’s Lettuce; Lambs Lettuce)

Yellow Archangel (Yellow Deadnettle, Variegated Yellow Archangel)

Deadnettle (Dead Nettle, Red or Purple Deadnettle, Spotted Deadnettle)

Violet (Sweet Violet, Dog Violet)

Campanula (Bell Flower)

Forget-Me-Not

Herb Robert

Mallow

Cranesbill Geranium

White Deadnettle (White Dead Nettle, White Archangel)

Speedwell

Aloe (Aloe Vera).

Plants of Interest to Tortoise Keepers

We aim to provide you with a resource for safe practice and to try to reduce some of the confusion that exists at present concerning the feeding of tortoises, as well as giving a general understanding of the principles of providing a varied and nutritious diet. 

Visit us on YouTube

Click here to see our slideshow on plants which are safe to feed to your tortoise


Plant Booklet

Click here for our free downloadable plant booklet which gives advice on plants that are edible for your tortoise and which are suitable to grow in your garden.

Living with a Sulcata—A Light-hearted Read

Keeping sulcata tortoises can be fun and often can cause problems you never thought of when you buy a hatchling.  Click here to download our pdf document of one owner's experience.

 Handy Tips

Garden Chat Forum

Don't forget to check the email notification box, which you will find above the area where you type your message.  Notification will automatically be sent to your email inbox to let you know when someone has replied to your message.

Plant Database

Please note that if an entry states that a plant is safe to feed to tortoises, or can be fed in moderation, our general rule is that this statement applies to all parts of the plant (leaves, flowers, roots, bark, etc.), and if some parts are safe but others are not, we will list the parts that are not safe.

New Additional Features to the Website

Plant Icons

We often get asked 'can I feed the whole plant or is it just part of the plant'?  So in response to this, we are incorporating plant Icons to the main tips section of each plant entry so you can determine whether to feed the whole plant, just the flower or the leaf only.  Please bear with us whilst we complete the work as it will take some time to add these to the 800 entries.

Feed in Moderation

The moderation orange traffic light colour coding is being split in to two sections.

  1. An orange colour coding with a green square to indicate you can feed a plant in moderation safely.
  2.  An orange colour coding with a red square to indicate that you should feed the plant sparingly. 
Click here to read the How to Use the Database section for more information.

Don't Forget

Clicking on smaller images in the database will enlarge the photos to provide you with more detail.

Handmade Cards for Sale

We really need your help to allow our work to continue and so we have produced beautiful hand-made cards which you can purchase.  Click here for more details of cards and how to order.

Interesting Articles

Proper Diet for Desert Tortoises an interesting read by Geoff Stein. Click on the link given and you will find this in the Tortoise Species section.
Moist Root Shelters for Hatchlings by Editha Krüger published in the journal Radiata 17 (2), 2008.
A must read for all tortoise keepers. 

An excellent video showing the resuts of poor care or diet.

This is a video on Youtube that you NEED to watch please click here to view.

Need help with identifying a plant?

If you need a plant identifying to decide whether it is safe to feed your tortoise or grow in the tortoise enclosure and can't see it on the website, then please take a good close-up picture of the whole plant, one of the leaf arrangement and where there is a flower, a clear picture of the flower. 

Then register or log in to the TTT website forum and post your pictures where our plant experts are waiting to help.

Topiary Tortoise

Click here for instructions on how to make your own topiary tortoise to decorate your garden.



Anagram Corner

Find an anagram by rearranging the letters of the word or words in the question below.  The answer will be the name of a plant which is in the Tortoise Table database.

Question:   

What is the anagram of the words Tribe Crests?

Click here to find the answer.

Quotation

'Our finest flowers are often weeds transplanted'. 

                                                                       Elbert Hubbard, The American Bible

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