The vegetable
garden is still looking relatively good; cosmos blooms are just about hanging
on, nasturtiums are brighter than ever, lots of tall yellow flowers have grown from
the green manure mix. Autumn-sown broad beans, onions and garlic are all
putting on lots of new growth.
But mushrooms
are the stars of the show and there’s a profusion at the base of the dead
sycamore tree. I don’t know what they are but they look good and are surely NOT
for eating.
On the front lawn are many different kinds of waxcaps plus two
strange-looking types of club fungus.
At first I
thought the black one was ‘dead man’s fingers’ but my ID guide says they grow
on wood. These are growing on grass so are a type of ‘earth tongue’ – although having
said that, they might be growing out of a dead tree-root beneath the grass.
Complicated stuff this natural history. Next to the black is a bright yellow
one which I suspect is the ‘apricot club’.
