we call it a garden! sometimes veg patch (for veggies obviously) and (lawn) for grass, but Gardens (Yards) are small in the UK so we don't have a whole lot of names, no need! I had a really big garden (yard) by uk standards, but not even appropriate to put in acreage! I lived in the countryside and flora as far as I can tell lives in town, so she will have most likely have a smaller plot than I did, and after patio, small lawn area for kids to run on and jungle climber, no garden (UK sence)left for veg (get this, we got the jungle climber for free as everyone who viewed it, said it was too big for their garden and so the person selling it put it up as free, to get rid of it) I know in cities this space problem is the same (USA), and appartments, but even country people have small gardens, land prices are so high (UK), that if you have a big garden a lot of people sell it, for house building. for example my gargage foot print and bonus room here is bigger than our house my first house in the UK, and the last we had before moving, we where the envy of a lot of friends due to it's size (approx 1500 Sq foot) so imagine the garden size (yard) hope this helps, and to think I am from a nation of gardener's, hats off to the Brit chaps and chapesses.

Are we talking the little 2-6 inch jobs or the larger 3-5 feet ones? If they are the larger ones, monitor lizard probably. Hire someone to trap them our buy a trap and take it a few miles away and let it go into the woods or something.

bgrose, I am deleting the pics, so they should be gone in a few days. I thought if I showed you my cute lizard you would stop being afraid of them, but I can see my idea did not help at all. I have to say that I am glad that I have lizards, and we let the garden spider stay most of one summer so our ten year old could watch a spider spin its web, catch bugs, and then spin a cocoon and lay its eggs in the fall. We watched the baby spiders leave the next spring. I don't want her to be afraid of spiders and lizards or snakes, either, for that matter. I want her to know the dangers of some snakes and to appreciate the other critters for the jobs they play in the garden and in the soil. I am sorry you have such a deep fear of these animals and hope that you have success in removing your lizard, if that will help you. Sincerely, Gean

judijune, be careful with all those snakes! We get some venomous snakes too. My scariest situation was maybe 5 yrs sgo at my old farm when our Lab had cornered a huge Timber Rattlesnake out by the chicken coop. It was all coiled up rattlling its tail -holding its black rattler up high. It had a different sound than other snakes and from a distance without contacts/glasses on, I thought it was a black hornets nest lol! The dog was barking its foolish head off in that snakes face! Im shocked it didnt bite her..or me! I was at a loss of what to do because the dog would not back off, so finally I walked around the coop and up behind her and grabbed her tail pulling her backwards, away from the snake, until i could get hold of her collar and back up towards the house. That snake took off into the woods quick. I later learned that although massive and one of the most venomous rattelesnakes, The Timber rattler is not aggressive and will sometimes even play dead rather than strike. Good thing lol. I dread seeing another one. Diane, I Love those goat photos and their guardian dog! Its a smart thing getting the goats out there to keep the wildfire risk down. The silly photo: We had just got a new overgrown pasture section ready for the goats, a few days ago. We let them out, into it for the first time and they were all going nuts running around tasting everything. Some goats were rubbing their heads on the tall weeds like a scratching post lol. Somehow, this little guy got a big weed stuck on his head. Then he went up to the girls and they would try to eat the weed, then would run and they would all chase him trying to eat the weed. He tried it with the older female goats and they were not impressed and would butt him. They kept us laughing with their goofy antics!