Saving the Toddbrook Dam
Thank you for your comment in answer to my previous observation and question.
Mosses in particular enchant me. The yard west of the southwest- to northeast-running driveway has a "forest-floor" look. Lichen on the trees and moss on the ground with bare soil, berries, heaved maple roots, mushrooms, pine and yew needles, sporadic non-turf grass and unexpected plants make up that "forest-floor" look for me.
But yesterday -- not occurring as early as March to May -- I finally observed my first -- not the usual many -- mushroom. This year offered lightning bugs in mid-May (not the standard last weekend of April) along with the tiniest strawberries occurring separate from, not with, wild onion.
Might fireflies, mushrooms, wild onions and strawberries be showing unexpectedly late -- or not at all -- this year in the British Isles?
Brambleberries, raspberries and wineberries ripened early June even as wineberries never ripened at all. The latter shows beautiful leaves without their tasty fruit ;-{.
DerdriuMarriner, Jul 15, 2024