The past three days have been overcast and horribly muggy, with record breaking temperatures in the 90s! Instead of bringing relief, late day rains have ushered in overnight sogginess…..enough apparently, for this to happen:
Mushrooms growing in my bromeliad container!?!
I’ve occasionally seen bright yellow mushrooms among my irrigated St. Augustinegrass, but never did I expect “sprouts” in a container receiving no irrigation OR hand watering! What’s even more surprising is this ➡ I inspect my plants daily (am I a wierdo? ;)) and yesterday there was no hint of mushrooms!
Needless to say, I checked the other potted bromeliads and though I didn’t see any strange fungi 😉 a flower spike was forming in one of the front containers and definately worth showing you:
Billbergia windii in Spike
Teeny tiny mushrooms at 3:15pm., 06/01/12
“Stay inside and hide!” texted Jack, upon receipt of this photo 😉
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small house/BIG GARDEN 
Plants always find their way to life!
Don’t they?!! I had a gladiolus recently that “reached” so much farther than you’d expect to catch the sunshine! Survival of the fittest, as they say!
I hope the tonrado literally passed you by, such scary things!
Everytime it rains I’m amazed at how plants react – no matter how much I may water, when it rains they put on inches overnight. A wonderous sight!
You’re SO right Claire! No matter how good the soak from a hose, the results don’t compare to a real downpour, do they!?
We’ve had the same jungle weather and tornado warnings as well, both of which are unheard of in late May in New Hampshire. We are also getting rain today and I’m hoping I see some mushrooms tomorrow-they make for interesting blog posts!
Hello my Northern friend! 🙂
Threats of Tornados at this time of year in N.H. is SO atypical! Although, remember last early June when a tornado made its way down the Connecticut River out around Central Ma? That was bizarre!
Thanks for stopping in, and I wish you lots of nice sun from here on out!
Thank you, and yes I do remember that tornado last year in Mass. It certainly was bizarre!
I wonder if it’s shaping up for a bad hurricane season. We had two Atlantic tropical storms in May, before the season officially starts…. Fingers crossed it won’t be!
I had to laugh about your mushrooms…especially because how cute they are, but still – I can’t stand them creeping up on me like that. Imagine my surprise when I walked outside after Beryl came through and found this in my front yard: http://www.flickr.com/photos/gghouse/7289574150/in/photostream/
The 8-year old boy in me can’t help but snicker at how closely it looks like something that shouldn’t be shown in public.