Gracie says "welcome" to spring! Things are beginning to bloom around here. Just look at this beautiful close up of one of Mom's camellias!
The pyracantha is full of red berries that the birds love to eat (but be careful there are 2" thorns all over this shrub and they bite...Mom calls this the piranha bush!)
Now kitties if you see this in your yard and your Mom and Dad will NOTICE it's called a stinkhorn mushroom. Yep, it stinks. Like rotting flesh stink. Mom thought it was feral kitty deposits, but nope it's a mushroom, and guess what? It's edible. ICK! The thing to do to get rid of it is use baking soda, or best just get it up root and all and throw it away. They form in mulch or all things...Mom found about 30 of them and OH MY COD do they smell!
Now onto
Cory's for more beautiful gardens!
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We are so glad to see that Picasa/Google fixed whatever issue it was that was not allowing us to upload our pictures straight from Picasa. We know that Google has been having some issues with some software changes that they made so we hope all of that is now straighten out!
Wow! We've never seen a mushroomie like that one! Pretty cool looking (as long as we don't have to smell it!).
ReplyDeleteAbby, Your garden is just beautiful !!! so bright with color !!! Very joyful Post : )
ReplyDeleteAnd Wow ! for a stinkhorn mushroom !!! Never seen it before in my life !!! Very Stinky Interesting ! Thanks for sharing : )
How did they (whoever "they" are) find out those mushrooms are edible? Why would anyone want to eat such an awful-smelling thing? Although I suppose it's better to find those sitting around than an actual, rotting dead thing.
ReplyDeleteYay for these gorgeous stinkhorn mushrooms!! LOL!!!
ReplyDeleteHello there wonderful Gracie!!! You are so lovely to show me and Charlie round your beautiful garden!!! Yay!!!! The pyracanthas and camellias are so pretty and vivid!! Spring is so here!!
take care
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Gorgeous Camelia and Pyracantha. Come on Spring!!! You are a lot ahead of us.
ReplyDeleteYour camellia is just lovely. We hopes we don't find any of those stinkhorn mushrooms in our yard. The sounds most unpleasant, although they looked kinda interesting. We can't believe people eat something that smells so bad.
ReplyDeleteThat mushroom is ugly along with the terrible smell. We have never seen one of these either. Your camellia is really pretty. Ours only blooms in December. Must be a different kind. It sure is fun to see the flowers. Have a great day.
ReplyDeleteGracie you are one gorgeous Gardener.
ReplyDeleteWe cackled out loud at your Mom's name for the thorny shrub.
Mom was not familiar stinky mushrooms. Now that she knows what that look like she'll be sure to avoid it.
Hugs Madi
Beautiful garden pictures, Gracie! Even the mushroom, although it's not a type of stinky goodness we'd like ... hee hee!
ReplyDeletePurrs and headbutts,
Sabrina, Sam and Simon
We just love the beautiful colours of the camellias and the red berries...the stink mushroom we could do without - Lol!!!
ReplyDeleteWe've never seen a stinkhorn mushroom before and if what we read is true we don't want any in our garden either.
ReplyDeleteLuv Hannah and Lucy xx xx
So pretty!!!! :)
ReplyDeleteSpring does bring vibrant colours!
Wow! What a big old mushroom that is! I like your garden. Ping! I should love to come walk in your garden sometime!
ReplyDeleteWhew, thankk goodness we don't has none of them 'shrooms!
ReplyDeleteI is an avid gardner myself...well, I likes to dig anyways.
Puddles
Gracie, those are "almost" as pretty as your eyes!
ReplyDeleteI just love spring flowers.
ReplyDeleteWow, I have never seen mushroom like that. The flowers are pretty but Gracie is by far the cutest.
ReplyDeleteyour garden is beautiful!!!!!!
ReplyDeletepurrrsss n nosekissies to mine gorgeous sweet teeny tuxie princess
ReplyDeleteyour adoring weerd floofy cocoapuff meezerman Sammy
Gracie, I loved my stroll with you through the garden...and the lovely whisker kiss behind the pyracanthus!
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Whoa, that is a crazy-looking mushroom! Sounds gross, too. Your garden looks so beautiful and colorful, though!
ReplyDeleteThe Human and I think that stinky thing is really interesting-looking but we are pretty glad we don't have smellovision, MOL!
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