Things really start to hot up in July, the evenings are still long, schools are out and Americans celebrate Independence Day. In the world of plants and fungi there is a celebration of it’s own occurring and there can be real gluts of food to be found for the keen forager.

Giant Puffball and puffballs– [...]

June is one of the few times I like being English. It is a time for strawberries and cream, Wimbledon, the Glastonbury festival and weekend pagans drinking heavily at their local standing stones. It is a month where you want the rain for your garden but you don’t want it in the amount it can [...]