We tend to keep the garden a little untidy over the winter. Not because we can't be bothered (although there probably is an element of that!) but for the birdies and insect life. The strawberries still have all their straw so it creates a nice warm place for the insects to bed down over the winter.Because of this we do get random things crop up every year – weeds mostly. But this year we've had mushrooms! We noticed this one today – quite a good sized one too – there's two more small ones next to it but this is the biggest – about 10cm across in size.
We've had a look in numerous mushroom ID books – the only real mushroom around this time of year is the St.George. It definitely looks like a St.George but it's totally the wrong habitat – they should be in fields. This one is in a tiny non-grassed back garden in London. Could it be a St.George? Who knows.
