Yes, it's brilliant! The clay is full of rocks and generations of residents have chucked them in a pile by a wall. (The little walls are all built of the larger examples.) We only discovered the lizards by accident.
That is brilliant! And you've inspired me... I'm always digging up rocks and bricks which I quietly stash in a dark corner of the garden - I think now I'll move them to somewhere sunny to hopefully make a home for lizards like yours. They are in my garden for sure (or at least one - I spotted a common lizard basking on a wall of my house last summer).. maybe I can make it more hospitable for them!
That sounds great. I don't know where these creatures come from, they just seem to turn up. When we made a pond we hardly had the water in before the toads arrived. And newts. Now newts are not known as great walkers but there they were. In dry summers we see grass snakes taking a dip, but then they disappear. Where do they go? It's all a fine mystery to me.
The deciduous grasses get cut back at around this time of year, and up until spring, depending on the variety and the time of year it gets into growth. As far back as you want @Meomye . Ideally, do it when the new growth is just coming through. If you leave it too late, it's easy to cut into the new growth.
It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
@Meomye, although Stipa tenuissima is a deciduous grass, I actually treat mine like an evergreen as it never really goes brown and fade like others do. You can simply comb your hand through the crown to remove dead leaves and tidy it up. If it has got a bit long and no longer upright I grasp all the leaves up into a column and cut about two inches off. When you let go it will form a dome shape which will become more natural as the grass grows. I have many of these, they are a must in the garden!
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Ideally, do it when the new growth is just coming through. If you leave it too late, it's easy to cut into the new growth.
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...