Mushroom explosion.

Due to the damp, warm weather of August there appears to be fungi everywhere. Wherever you turn, in gardens, by the wayside mushrooms are popping up before your eyes. I must admit that I didn’t really have a major interest in them, until I began forest bathing. Now, I relish the thought of discovering another variety. There are so many out there to discover. Such a range of shapes and colours. I have to admit that they also can look fairy/magical like when you discover them in the woods snuggled up to the vibrant-green moss. I have put a few of them onto my Instagram page recently, but you will also begin to discover them amongst my season photographs.

I decided to follow a number of people on Instagram who appear to have a large knowledge of fungi. They have many photographs of numerous varieties of mushrooms which they have shared. It is interesting to read their names, and whether they can be eaten, or are poisonous. What is scary for me is that there are so many that look very similar, and I don’t think that I would ever be confident enough to actually eat any that I have found on my wanders, even if I thought that they were the edible variety.