Its been awhile since i have played, and it seems a few things have changed. Do you still have to spend stardust to keep backgrounds active??? How do backgrounds work now.

From the News Page April 4th: "
As you know, your Garden has a feature allowing you to 'freeze' your favourite background effects in place after growing them (for example, by using the 'Magical Pots'.) However the background currently needs to be re-frozen with Star Dust every week.

The great news starting today is that when you freeze your background it will now last indefinitely, meaning you don't need to remember to re-freeze it ever again and you can also use more of your Star Dust for Superfood instead :)

The only time you now need to re-freeze your background is when you decide to add new effects and wish to freeze those new ones in place. (You can always remove one or more effects at any time, just like before.)

This change will take effect the next time you use Star Dust to freeze your background effects.

Hopefully we'll now see lots more beautiful and creative Garden backgrounds throughout Fairyland :) "

Thanks Elfie

Additionally, how do i modify my background now, say delete the pink sky, etc...

Click on the stardust key and it will show you what you can remove. I don't know if you can do sky?????? You might check though. I just have sun and cloud

If you click on the stardust icon you will get a list of your effects & a box beside each to remove them.

Thanks!

What happened to the Zodiac critters that you can get each month. Have they been discontinued?

We still get the zodiacs Shawn if you check in the shoppe,  but we haven't received notifications for them since the beginning of the year.

How do you get the fancy bird baths for the super water, and fancy feeding tables? Additionally the champagne bottles?