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I cut back about a third of our Fig (brown turkey) last winter and the crop was depleted by more than a third. Should I do more this winter or leave it for a year? Ta.

Our dahlias and lillies are rather good this year.

Thanks. I don't go to many garden centres so those tips are welcome. When we bought the house, it was rundown and the garden totally overgrown. We got a gardener up the road to suggest plants for pollinators and plant it up. We kept a fuschia which is a tree now and positively buzzes with bees...

Yes, there bees on the one on Victoria Gardens and I couldn't believe how blue the plants were when I took my sunglasses off. I"m assuming they are an ornamental version of our native vegetated shingle variety. Does anyone know if local garden centres stock them?

Spotted this marvellous blue thistly thistle in Victoria Gardens yesterday. Does anyone know if they'll grow in a snail-infested chalky garden and what they're called please? Ta.

They were very dead. Thanks for the tip about floating object

If you have a pond in your garden, please break the ice on it to give amphibians a chance. In the last big freeze, I found 4 dead frogs trapped under the ice in my small pond. Thank you.

Oozing compost bin After 10+ years of a functioning compost bin ('dustbin' type) with thousands of worms producing rich compost, it's started oozing black liquid from the bottom. We put vegetable peelings in it and teabags (not citrus). The only difference to previous yesrs is that a few months...