I was afraid we would not have our annual mushroom extravaganza as September passed by with only a few small shrooms. Luckily, during the last week or so and all through the beginning of October, more and more little caps started poking out with a few dragon’s eggs in the mix.
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Here is a selection of the various fungus that graced our yard this year till the cold weather finally sent them back underground. I'm afraid I don’t know the IDs of most of them but the bright yellow ones are the Yellow-Orange Amanita — lovely but poisonous. The rest are a mystery!
What kind of shrooms grow in your yard? Got any pictures?
I want to thank everyone who stopped by yesterday’s Bucket on making herbal oils and vinegars and apologize for not coming back. I had a good reason, though! I left work early to test drive a car and ended up buying it! Woot! But the paperwork and stuff took forever and I was wiped out when I got home. I’m so excited, though — my poor old 12 year old car was more than ready for retirement and I really needed to do this. My new car is a Subaru Crosstrek, dark red. I’ll post pics once I pick it up later this week or next.
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