Category: David

Orange grisette mushrooms growing under a conifer in Bantock Park recently. The colour is initially somewhat stronger than in the related tawny grisettes. Both fade after rain, so become harder to tell apart.

Mass of ripening crab apples on a tree in the front garden of an old black-and-white cottage on the edge of the main village, Berkswell.

The turkey at Northycote Farm, walking around its pen. It might have thought I was a source of extra food.

Long thin figwort growing by a canal. Flowering over, the plant’s seeds are developing as a spider has used the structure as scaffolding for a web.

Tawny grisette mushrooms making their annual appearance growing through grass. Like many mushrooms, they grow in association with trees: this species can be found with a wide variety of deciduous and coniferous ones.

Heather flowering on a patch of heathy ground on Gospel Oak Common.