Rowan (also known as mountain ash) leaves can turn a rich, dark crimson colour in the autumn. These leaves were on a rowan bush by the Birmingham Canal near the Stafford Road.
Alder, catkins and seeds together
Autumn just beginning, West Park
Fairies bonnets, Worfield
Yellowish waxcaps
Tiny puffballs in short grass
Autumn, just beginning, Aldersely
Pushing through the slate
I presume that when this garden was given a slate chipping mulch, it was to suppress anything trying to go there. It didn’t work with these mushrooms.
The fungi are inkcaps. Possibly they common inkcaps, a species which is actually not very common. But I wasn’t about to step onto a stranger’s driveway for a closer inspection.
Phlox flowering
Bee collecting ivy pollen
Honey fungus on a fallen tree
Clump of mushrooms growing through tarmac
A single stand of mushrooms forcing their way through the tarmac of a pavement,
This is the third year in succession that the same species of fungus has grown, at the same time of year, in the same spot.
The first time was only a few weeks after the tarmac had been laid.
The hole where the tarmac is pushed aside by the growing mushrooms expands every year.
These pictures are in sequence, and show the development of the mushroom clump over the course of a week after I first noticed they were there.