7 Plants That Can Attract Snakes to Your Garden

RIVANSHI RAKHRAI

Tall grasses like pampas grass or maiden miscanthus provide snakes with excellent hiding spots where they can ambush prey like rodents and frogs.

Tall Grasses

Dense shrubs like juniper bushes or holly bushes offer similar hiding spots for snakes, and the foliage also provides shade to keep them cool.

Dense Shrubs

Climbing vines like ivy or Virginia creeper can create a network of pathways that snakes can use to navigate your garden unseen.

Climbing Vines

Fruit and berry bushes like raspberry bushes or blackberry bushes attract small animals like birds and rodents that snakes prey on.

Fruit and Berry Bushes

While not directly attracting snakes, flowering plants can attract insects, which in turn attract insect-eating animals like frogs and lizards that snakes prey on.

Flowering Plants

Plants with hollow stems like bamboo can provide snakes with a cool, damp hiding spot.

Plants with Hollow Stems

Woodpiles and debris piles offer excellent hiding spots for snakes, and they may also attract rodents that snakes prey on.

Woodpiles and Debris Piles