“You should come outside to see the interesting things that are happening in your yard.”
“You coming or not?”
Oh, wow! There is a Chicken of the Woods mushroom.
I know you can eat these, but I haven’t come to a point of being comfortable making them for us.
I figured if a Chicken of the Woods is growing, the atmosphere outside is right for other mushrooms, so began focusing on the yard around me and was surprised at how many I found and the variety.
There is also an interesting fungus growing on a tree stump.
Cerwin painted a preservative on the loveseat in our memory garden. It looks so much better now.
The crepe myrtle is blooming nicely.
Remember when we cut the daylilies back to almost nothing a few weeks ago. This is what they look like now.
You may also remember when our Maine daughter Diane was here for a week and cut the mint tea back to the ground and made us 80+ quarts of tea syrup for the freezer.
It is ready for another cutting. Diane isn’t here, so I will have to make it by myself this time. š
Leaves falling to the grass remind me that we are deep into summer.
I’m glad I took time to explore our yard.
Don’t miss the beauty around you – things that are easy to overlook or take for granted.
That’s a lot of different mushrooms — the most I’ve seen here is a large one that looks like an overgrown button mushroom (but in a fairy ring). The Chicken of the Woods is fascinating — so many twists and turns! Your yard is always full of interesting things š — I planted some mint and some sweet basil the other day. For a couple of weeks, they seemed to be taking hold, and then suddenly one day all the mint leaves were stripped off — a couple of days later the basil leaves also disappeared. I thought maybe it was bunnies that were eating them, but I have since seen a fence lizard haunting the area, and running away whenever it knows I’m there!
I was surprised to find so many mushrooms. I have been busy the past few days and didn’t pay attention to what was happening in the yard. Lizards and bunnies do serious damage to gardens.
The lizard surprised me — I’ve seen the bunnies eating the lawn in our complex — but I always thought that lizards ate insects rather than plants!