Earthstar...

Don't you just love Google?  I did a little research and found out what my amazing fungus is.  It is an Earthstar.  What a romantic name!  And very appropriate, I think!  If you want to see more pictures of Earthstars, you can follow this link: Earthstar.

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Catching up...

Well, it's been a few weeks since I've posted so I'm kinda playing catch-up.  This first photo is from a week ago.  Last Sunday, I spent several hours cleaning up and transplanting in my hummingbird garden.  The next morning when I came out to look at my work, I found this fungus growing - blooming? - underneath a clump of Salvia "Black and Blue."  It only lasted that day and was gone by the time I came home from work in the evening.  I have no idea what it is but it is amazing!  (You can click on the picture for a larger view.)

My Balloon Flowers have finished blooming, but when they were blooming, they sure were beautiful.

You can see why they are called "Balloon Flowers" - their buds look like little balloons!

Oh, so lovely!

Along my path to my back door, I have planted Mealy Cup Sage and "Coral Nymph" Salvia.  Both these Salvias are treated as annuals here, but sometimes the Mealy Cup Sage (the blue one) will over-winter.  The "Coral Nymph" Salvia is very good about reseeding.

The yellow flower is Threadleaf Coreopsis.  I love the color combinations!

Even though I have several Hydrangeas, I only have one blooming this year.  I think it got too cold this past winter for the other ones, so although they survived, they aren't going to bloom this summer.

This Hydrangea is called Mini-Penny.  It is a smaller bush and very charming!

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And yet even more mushrooms...

Here are some more pictures by Kirstin of the mushrooms growing in the woods.























What an amazing variety there are!


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More mushrooms...

As happens when Fall grows closer, mushrooms are showing up everywhere.



Around here, our woods are a favorite place with them.



I have no idea how many different varieties live out among the trees.



I mentioned previously on my blog that I don't know the names of mushrooms,



so I just look at them and enjoy them. But I don't eat them. (Not even the ones from the store.)



And another view of the same guy.



How's this for camouflage?



Thank you to Kirstin for taking these pictures for me.


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Mushrooms...

Mushrooms are starting to show up in my garden. I really don't know much about mushrooms, so I can't tell you the names of any of these, but I think they are very interesting to look at. A pot with Coral Bells (Heuchera) provides a home for these mushrooms.



The mulch under my Laurel Oak is popular with mushrooms. There are clusters of them in several different places, all near plants where I have made a hole in the mulch, filled it with potting soil and planted the plant.



This is the same mushroom below; only in this picture you can better see the stems of the mushrooms. Aren't the mushrooms cute? They are underneath a Hydrangea.



What caught my eye about this next mushroom was its interesting green color.



And another view.




This last adorable little mushroom is next to the broken birdbath dish filled with Creeping Jenny. Evidently something finds the mushroom good to munch on! I'll just look at it, thank you very much.


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