Psyche™
Zone 3 |
Pollinator Garden
Theophora™ NZ
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Zone 3 Progress
Zone 3 Progress
6 upgrades planned | 0 completed
This zone combines pollinator-friendly planting with rabbit-safe flowers to create a vibrant feeding place for bees, butterflies, and other beneficial insects. Water features such as bird baths provide essential hydration for wildlife, while a central lawn connects to the rabbit habitat through a tunnel system that allows supervised grazing.
Sanctuary Upgrades:
Sanctuary Upgrades:
Sanctuary Systems:
🪱 Soil System
🌱 Plant Growth
💧 Water Support
🦋 Pollinator Habitat
🐇 Rabbit Habitat
🏠 Infrastructure
Fence Restoration
Fence Restoration
Current State
The boundary fence is weathered and inconsistent in appearance.
Goal
Repaint the fence black to create a clean visual backdrop for the santuary and unify the property design.
Sanctuary Systems: 🏡
Pollinator Flower Beds
Pollinator Flower Beds
Current State
The boundary area is full of weeds and moss-covered stones.
Goal
Introduce pollinator-friendly garden beds planted with nectar-rich flowers that support bees and butterflies, and are rabbit-friendly.
Sanctuary Systems: 🦋🌱
Pollinator water Source
Pollinator water Source
Current State
There is currently no dedicated water source for insects or birds.
Goal
Add shallow water features with stones or textured surfaces so insects can safely land and drink. These will also attact birds.
Sanctuary Systems: 🌱🏡💧
Soil Improvement
Soil Improvement
Current State
This area currently consists of dense clay, ant-infested, soil.
Goal
Improve soil structure and fertility to support both polinators and plants, and create a hostile environment for ants.
Sanctuary Systems: 🪱
In-Ground worm Farms
In-Ground worm Farms
Current State
There is currently no composting system in this section of the garden.
Goal
Install two in-ground worm farms to process kitchen scraps and produce nutrient-rich worm castings directly within the garden. This helps improve soil health naturally while reducing food waste.
Sanctuary Systems: 🪱
Rabbit Gazing Lawn
Rabbit Gazing Lawn
Before
The lawn currently consists of mixed grass varieties and weeds, and all four sides are bordered with garden beds, effectively closing off the lawn.
Goal
Overseed the lawn with tall fescue grass, creating a more durable and rabbit-friendly grazing lawn while maintaining a soft green space within the sanctuary. We're reclaiming two of the four garden beds as lawn (the other two will be turned into the Pollinator Garden Beds (above), by removing the stones, weed mat, sleepers and hedges, then seeding the freed-up space.
Sanctuary Systems: 🌱🐇🪱
Progress Updates
Progress Updates
March 2026
Contacted our local city council seeking contact details for my boundary neighbours. This is to seek permission to commence work on the jointly-owned boundary fence.
Rabbit-safe flowering plant seeds have been sown into window seed trays, ready to germinate. This provides an early start before planting them in the garden beds.
Council responded with contact details for 3 of the 5 boundary neighbours. Draft letter underway.
Cleared a small section of garden bed and repurposed the stones in Zone 1.
Progress Updates
Progress Updates
April 2026
I moved the window seed trays to another East-facing window post-germination, and they died...
Purchased two Pansey and two Alyssum seedling trays.
Pulled all the hedges from the garden bed.
Cleared some of the existing garden edging. Some has rotten in places making removal difficult.
For Fun
Enjoy these beautiful chalk drawings some special artists drew while work was undertaken on our pollinator habitat.
This project is part of Psyche by Theophora, a living sanctuary for the soul's metamorphosis, providing the sacred host plants essential to the journey from earthbound life to winged grace.
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