Fungi in My Garden

shrimpy · 08-11-2008, 04:15 AM

Some pics of Fungi growing in my garden I took yesterday they are really amaizing

Shrimpy

shrimpy · 08-11-2008, 04:21 AM

More pics

Shrimpy

PS What's everybody up to? not much action on the sight lately

treebeard55 · 08-11-2008, 05:58 PM

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Originally Posted by shrimpy

What's everybody up to? not much action on the site lately

Mainly trying to get my tropicals repotted while summer's still here.

Nice pics, by the way. The beauty and design to be found in nature can blow you away.

JTGJr25 · 08-12-2008, 05:03 AM

Cool pics. I'm not up to much...just waiting for my trees to grow. All I really have left to do is separate a couple layers in a couple weeks.

Tom

Mattbonsai · 08-12-2008, 10:23 AM

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Originally Posted by treebeard55

The beauty and design to be found in nature can blow you away.

I second that, I saw a Fungi Bract on a tree in the Keukenhof Bulb Gardens in Holland that was about 2 foot across, I tried to get a photo but the disposable camera was having none of it.

Just getting the garden up to scratch, feeding and watering the tomatoes, trees, strawberries, cucumbers, and trying to resist pulling up the potatoes too early!

JLDoggett · 08-12-2008, 11:54 AM

Be careful as those bracs could be weakening the wood they are growing through. But they do add some definate interest to the look of the garden.

Here we are just trying to get something to dry. No-one told us we could become a temperate rain forest.

treebeard55 · 08-16-2008, 07:43 PM

Just heard a good story a few hours ago from Guy Guidry, the headliner at this year's Midwest Bonsai Show in Chicago. He's been interested in bonsai since his youth -- even grew trees in tin cans when he couldn't afford pots yet.

It seems that when he got his own place, he was still in the impatient-for-results stage. He said he would prune a tree, then the next day go out, get down on his hands and knees, and look for new growth already sprouting. He spent so much time in the yard on his knees that a neighbor lady became concerned for him, and finally came over.

"Guy," she asked, "what religion are you? I see you out here all the time praying to these trees!" [Apparently she was totally serious.]

Guy explained, after which, he said, she was greatly relieved for his sake!

Phil · 08-16-2008, 08:49 PM

He should have shook her boat and replied that he was a Druid !

~Phil

JTGJr25 · 08-17-2008, 05:12 PM

That story reminds me of myself......only my neighbors keep to themselves.

Tom

AlainK · 08-20-2008, 05:32 PM

Most of the time, it's the fungi you don't see that are dangerous.

But having mushrooms in the soil of a bonsai is usually the sign the roots are healthy.

Here, it's another case, that's mushroom developping on dead wood : if you get that on a bonsai, well, you don't have a bonsai anymore.

On the other hand, it was used as a valuable source of antibiotics for thousands of years BC (before Chernobyl, that is...

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JLDoggett Join Date: Oct 2007 Location: New Hampshire, USA, Posts: 641	Be careful as those bracs could be weakening the wood they are growing through. But they do add some definate interest to the look of the garden. Here we are just trying to get something to dry. No-one told us we could become a temperate rain forest. __________________ "Resolve to be tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving, and tolerant with the weak and wrong....because sometime in your life you will have been all of these" And I further resolve to click on an ad, each time I visit, to help support the site and to be welcoming to lurking guests when you join! After all, you're already here.

08-16-2008, 07:43 PM	#7 (permalink)
treebeard55 Join Date: Jan 2008 Location: Warsaw IN, USA USDA zone 5b Posts: 511	Watching trees grow Just heard a good story a few hours ago from Guy Guidry, the headliner at this year's Midwest Bonsai Show in Chicago. He's been interested in bonsai since his youth -- even grew trees in tin cans when he couldn't afford pots yet. It seems that when he got his own place, he was still in the impatient-for-results stage. He said he would prune a tree, then the next day go out, get down on his hands and knees, and look for new growth already sprouting. He spent so much time in the yard on his knees that a neighbor lady became concerned for him, and finally came over. "Guy," she asked, "what religion are you? I see you out here all the time praying to these trees!" [Apparently she was totally serious.] Guy explained, after which, he said, she was greatly relieved for his sake! __________________ Treebeard 55 Steve Moore http://hoosierbonsai.blogspot.com The most important bonsai tool is your brain.

08-16-2008, 08:49 PM	#8 (permalink)
Phil A bit "Windswept" Join Date: Oct 2007 Location: Chicago, Ill. USDA Zone 5 Posts: 1,051	He should have shook her boat and replied that he was a Druid ! ~Phil __________________ Please, always keep in mind that the typewritten word does not always convey what you wish to say, and to always treat others as you would have them treat you. Think twice-submit once. I started out with nothing....and still have most of it. "Its hell out there, give them hell back." ~ Prowler/Victor Gray 12/31/1943 - 11/24/2008

08-20-2008, 05:32 PM	#10 (permalink)
AlainK Join Date: Dec 2007 Location: Orléans, France Posts: 187	Most of the time, it's the fungi you don't see that are dangerous. But having mushrooms in the soil of a bonsai is usually the sign the roots are healthy. Here, it's another case, that's mushroom developping on dead wood : if you get that on a bonsai, well, you don't have a bonsai anymore. On the other hand, it was used as a valuable source of antibiotics for thousands of years BC (before Chernobyl, that is... ) __________________ Alain K. http://www.rdb45.fr http://ak2.apinc.org/bdB

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JTGJr25 Join Date: Jan 2008 Location: South Jersey Posts: 230	Cool pics. I'm not up to much...just waiting for my trees to grow. All I really have left to do is separate a couple layers in a couple weeks. Tom

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JTGJr25 Join Date: Jan 2008 Location: South Jersey Posts: 230	That story reminds me of myself......only my neighbors keep to themselves. Tom

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