alison, Maybe you already do this, but the leaves need to grow and store food in the bulb for next year. You can tidy up the garden without cutting the leaves by bending them over and wrapping a rubber band around them. Some people cut the leaves off before they have naturally dried out, and that will deter next year's crop of flowers.

My garden... fighting unusually hot, dry weather. Snails ate the pond lily. The pond rush and arrowleaf are still growing. I have raspberries producing quite well and lots of apricots, flowers doing fine, but it takes too much watering. A large plastic trash can has potatoes growing quite well. The roses bloomed in spite of neglect. I have ONE eggplant that is about to bloom. I hope it makes it.

Alice