Yes! We have beautiful Garter snakes in our garden! I almost stepped on an adult black with yellow stripes while moving the sprinkler today. I’m happy to have missed it and it safely slithered between my feet into the grass and crocosmia beds to avoid me. I haven’t seen a lot of evidence of slugs on or around our plants these past couple of years, so the snake(s) are helping keep their numbers down. We also love spiders! In our State, there are only three species we have to watch for and they, fortunately, are rare in our area. We also have frogs, lots of bees, esp. Bumble Bees, wild rabbits, etc… We do our best to ‘live in harmony’ with these animals and love having them around, except for the rabbits when they eat our plants! At least their poop helps fertilize our lawn. Unfortunately, the rabbit poop attracts rats… It’s an ecosystem loop. :)
Yes! We have beautiful Garter snakes in our garden! I almost stepped on an adult black with yellow stripes while moving the sprinkler today. I’m happy to have missed it and it safely slithered between my feet into the grass and crocosmia beds to avoid me. I haven’t seen a lot of evidence of slugs on or around our plants these past couple of years, so the snake(s) are helping keep their numbers down. We also love spiders! In our State, there are only three species we have to watch for and they, fortunately, are rare in our area. We also have frogs, lots of bees, esp. Bumble Bees, wild rabbits, etc… We do our best to ‘live in harmony’ with these animals and love having them around, except for the rabbits when they eat our plants! At least their poop helps fertilize our lawn. Unfortunately, the rabbit poop attracts rats… It’s an ecosystem loop. :)