We may not have many flowers or decorative bushes in our garden, but there is no shortage of moss, lichens or mushrooms. I took a walk around the whole garden last Sunday, and once again today, and counted twelve different kinds of mushrooms large enough to be noticed. I’m sure there are less eye-catching ones that I’ve missed.
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| We have mushrooms that look like mushrooms are supposed to, | and mushrooms that look like apricots. |
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| We have shaggy mushrooms… | …and we have velvety mushrooms. |
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| We have small brown slimy mushrooms… | …that do their best to take over the whole garden. |
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| We have mushrooms growing on trees… | …and we have poisonous toadstools. |
The one thing we don’t seem to have is edible mushrooms.








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