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Slow-worm under carpet (c) Jules HowardDragons in your Garden

Enhancing your garden: Reptile refuges

To get a closer look at the reptiles in your garden you could use 'refuges'. These are flat objects placed on the ground in sunny spots creating a warm 'refuge', attractive to slow-worms, common lizards or grass snakes. A sheet of corrugated tin or a piece of roofing felt would do the job where space allows, but slate roof tiles would be less obtrusive in smaller gardens.

Successfully attracting lizards and grass snakes into gardens is pretty tricky, since it depends largely on whether there are any populations locally. However, there's nothing to stop you trying - at the very least you will attract lots of other wildlife in the process.



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