BEFORE & AFTER: Spike and Mei-mei's garden

Spike and Mei-mei are our pet lizards. They are bearded dragons and at their age they eat between 60% and 90% raw vegetables and leafy plants. They have specific needs and they have been spoilt - especially Spike because we raised him - they are spoilt that they have had their own vegetable garden at the previous house. As a result one of our first priorities was to prepare a garden for them at the new house. So now Spike will quickly learn a new routine of slithering off the patio into his own little cullinary garden!

We also realised (look at the before photo) that the lawnmower will not cut all the way up against the patio sides, so this little garden will make mowing the lawn easier too.

BELOW: BEFORE PHOTO

Look at how long the grass is sprouting up agains the patio and large tall shade loving flowers are planted in full sun here!

BELOW: AFTER

On the one side.

BELOW: AFTER

On the other side.

BELOW: AFTER

We planted the following:

• "Magriete" - Beautiful white daisies once they flower on the sides
• On the front edge a medicinal herb that makes a beautiful yellow flowers. One can use the sap of this plant for wards, insect bites, fever blisters, etc, etc.
• Baby spinach
• Various green leavy lettuce
• Red leavy lettuce
• Thyme
• Cherry tomatos - we eat the tomatos, the lizards eat the leaves
• Watercress
• Green sweet basil

BELOW: AFTER

We created this beautiful feature with pebbles around the edge of the steps.

BELOW: We added a few "rose" succulents to add a touch of life!