Mushrooms

Our garden has been full of mushrooms this week, and we've been fascinated to watch their growth cycle. I'll walk you through the life of a pair of mushrooms that grew on the side of our house this week.



They appear quite suddenly as little (phallic) shoots.




Then you can start to see the "cap" part separate from the little stem at the very bottom.

And as they continue to get taller, there is further separation.

Then the "cap" separates even more as the entire mushroom gets taller and taller. This particular pair of mushrooms met their demise when Nigel the gardener came, but from what we've seen of other mushrooms in the garden, they were about to collapse anyway.