Garden Tortoises

18/11/2024

🐢🐢 Now is the time your torts will be thinking about hibernating (if not already) bear in mind a lot of hibernation guides are taylored to adult torts - see below a useful guide specifically for juveniles.

Juveniles and adults live in the same locations, in the same habitat, and experience exactly the same environmental conditions. They therefore both. brumate when winter temperatures fall to a certain level. The brumation (hibernation) of juvenile Mediterranean tortoises is a much-vexed issue and cau...

11/10/2024

🐢🐢 Hello, the 2 main breeds we have are both Mediterranean; Hermann and Marginated. Linked below are some breed specific care sheets that might help you decide between them🐢🐢

Hermann
https://www.tortoise-protection-group.org.uk/site/files/Hermanns%20care%20sheet%20January%202014New.pdf

Marginated
https://www.tortoise-protection-group.org.uk/site/files/Marginated%20care%20sheet%20January%202014New.pdf

06/10/2024

🐢🐢 Ever wondered what your tort looks like underneath their shell? See some interesting anatomy diagrams and X-ray examples below 🩻 🐢🐢

04/10/2024

🐢🐢 I found a video about
‘5 common tortoise mistakes’
Hopefully useful to some 🐢🐢

I hope you enjoy this video, please share it with anyone considering getting a tortoise and hopefully it gives them some tips. Let me know if there's any mis...

04/10/2024

🐢🐢 Hello all, If you are noticing an autumnal change in your torts, this might be a useful read 🐢🐢

A. C. HighfieldThis article is a brief guide to how to handle some very common problems that arise in auutum during the period when tortoises are preparing for hibernation (brumation) or shortly afterwards. It includes quite a lot of links to far more detailed articles on this website that cover cer...

10/09/2024

🐢I saw this and had to share it here! 🐢

Make a DIY Tortoise Topiary 🐢
Fill the shell with quality garden soil to the top. Cut the chicken coop mesh and attach it with with wire to the metal frame all around the edges. Use 4 small terracotta pots as legs.

01/09/2024

🐢🐢 With the summer sadly drawing to an end, you might be starting to think about your hibernation process for the coming winter, here is some useful info from The Tortoise Trust 🐢🐢

Kate BradleyThis is a very useful and important article that we first published on our old website. As it still remains highly relevant we have now migrated it to this new site. In the next few days we are also migrating another very useful article on this method. The time was fast approaching when....

09/08/2024

🐢🐢Thought we would share some useful info from the Tortoise Trust about outside year round living environments 🐢🐢

17/07/2024

🐢🐢 Hermann and Marginated 2024 hatchlings now available, pm for more info. Thanks 🐢🐢

*Sorry previous post got accidentally removed.*

16/12/2023

🐢🐢 Many happy returns Jonathon, wishing you a very happy 191st birthday! 🥳 We hope he got some strawberries 🍓 and tomatoes 🍅 as a birthday treat! 😋🐢🐢

191-year-old Jonathan extends his record as the oldest living land animal and oldest chelonian ever.