This is a work in progress, and has been for over a year. We started with her "house" which is an 8 x 10 ft shed, but with 1/2 inch wire mesh ("hardware cloth") for the walls and roof. The wire mesh extends 4 inches into the ground and the door has a high latch and a low latch. She has plastic tub for a hide and has asparagus fern, Boston fern and hostas as well as weeds and grass. She has 2 terracotta water dishes and a concrete slab for her food dish.
The cinderblock wall around her house is new this year. I have her blocked into the right (eastern) half right now. The plants there are asparagus fern, Mexican zinnia, Boston fern, spider plant, coleus, hosta, Wandering Jew and an aloe. The big wooden thing is a pallet that the big concrete tortoise came on, but Elsa loves to hide under it, so we left it. We have it tilted at a pretty steep angle- since she's a Herman's I don't think she can get out. There's a big terracotta water dish and a flower pot hide in the back although she prefers to hide under plants.
The left (western) side is incomplete and she can't get in there. So far it has Mexican zinnia, petunias, purple fountain grass, a low growing rose and and an ice plant.
The cinderblock wall around her house is new this year. I have her blocked into the right (eastern) half right now. The plants there are asparagus fern, Mexican zinnia, Boston fern, spider plant, coleus, hosta, Wandering Jew and an aloe. The big wooden thing is a pallet that the big concrete tortoise came on, but Elsa loves to hide under it, so we left it. We have it tilted at a pretty steep angle- since she's a Herman's I don't think she can get out. There's a big terracotta water dish and a flower pot hide in the back although she prefers to hide under plants.
The left (western) side is incomplete and she can't get in there. So far it has Mexican zinnia, petunias, purple fountain grass, a low growing rose and and an ice plant.
