22 Jan 2024

Transforming the garden into a 'lizard manor': a guide.

From Afternoons, 1:15 pm on 22 January 2024

"Think like a skink" - that's the advice of wildlife photographer and enthusiast Holly Neill, who for the past couple of years has been nurturing a lizard garden, or 'Mokomoko Manor'.

The work of organisations like Forest and Bird and sanctuaries like Zealandia has facilitated the return of native birds to our gardens, but Holly wants to remind us not to forget the humble lizard.

She says setting up your own lizard garden is easier than it sounds. Hollie speaks to Jesse.

Northern grass skink in Holly Neill's 'mokomoko manor'

Northern grass skink in Holly Neill's 'mokomoko manor' Photo: HOLLY NEILL