Garden Fit For a Tortoise

The garden designed with a tortoise very much in mind just needs the plants to be planted up now to finish it off.

Before the garden had no focus, and was just lawn with one scruffy path running down the side of the house.  The existing raised sleeper bed dominated the space and the run was too damp for the tortoise.

 

Curving lines in the new design, break up the rectangular space, and give the garden a whole new dimension.  The use of gravel as mulch over the main planting areas unifies the tortoise run with the rest of the garden and provides a well drained and warm surface for the him to walk over. 

 

Perennials and grasses will be planted to attract insects, and provide some tortoise food.

 

 

 

A happy tortoise