What can I grow?

You answer four questions — where you'll grow (indoors, outdoor garden, or containers), how much light the spot gets, whether you have cats or dogs, and what you want (food, flowers, foliage, or low maintenance). The quiz scores all 200 plants in the Growli library against your answers — rewarding good light fit and goal match, and penalising plants that need more light than you have or that are toxic if you have pets — then returns the best-fitting shortlist.

Plenty. Spider plant, parlour palm, calathea, peperomia, and several ferns are both low-to-medium light tolerant and non-toxic to cats and dogs per the ASPCA. Run the quiz with "low light" + "yes pets" + "foliage" and it surfaces the pet-safe, low-light options first so you don't have to cross-reference toxicity lists yourself.

Yes. Pick "food" as your goal and the matcher draws from the edible and herb side of the library — tomatoes, peppers, lettuce, basil, and more — weighted toward your space and light. Outdoor + full sun + food surfaces sun-loving crops; container + bright + food leans toward herbs and compact veg.

The matcher penalises plants that need more light than you said you have, and (if you have pets) toxic plants drop sharply. A fiddle-leaf fig won't appear for a low-light room because it genuinely struggles there. If you want to see it anyway, retake with a higher light level — but the recommendation is honest about what will actually thrive.

The plant library and care guidance work for both en-US and en-GB growers — light, water, and pet-safety facts are the same on both sides of the Atlantic. Outdoor timing differs by climate, so for planting dates pair your shortlist with the frost date calculator (US) or the RHS hardiness guide (UK).