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A lazy gardener whose name will remained shrouded in mystery, is too slothful to remove the trunks of trees he's cut down. There are benefits of having stumps around. For a while, they make great bases for pots and sculpture. Recently when looking for signs of spring, I noticed these Turkey Tail (or one of their many look alike friends) mushrooms growing on the side of one of the stumps.
Sometimes laziness pays off!
As the demotivational poster says, "Procrastination often pays off after time but laziness always pays off now."
Procrastination: It's a lot like yoga but without the flexibility.
Enjoy gardening or procrastinating.
Those turkey tails are beautiful! Nice shots
ReplyDeleteGreat feature, Peter. The purpose of shelf fungi are to consume dead trees, so why is leaving stumps a bad thing? They make a long lasting garden feature.
ReplyDeleteBeautiful! I welcome mushrooms (and all fungi) as important parts of my garden. Glad you do too, intentionally or not. :)
ReplyDeleteOh those are gorgeous!!! Excellent photos.
ReplyDeleteBeautiful indeed, and a feature in and of themselves. Plus, you may tell your lazy gardener friend that once that stump starts breaking down, certain hard to grow plants love the deteriorating conditions, and then the stump itself becomes a cool planter!
ReplyDeleteR is good at procrastination when it comes to paper work but I can't seem to get him to leave off tidying up outside...maybe if I show him this...
ReplyDeleteI find these incredibly beautiful. I have a friend that is a jewelry artist that uses nature in all her jewellery, Michelle Hoting Jewelry. She did a necklace based on these kind of mushrooms.
ReplyDeleteOh, beautiful fungi! I don't think of it as laziness (although allowing snags and twigs to remain in place is a lot easier). I agree with the others. Leaving the trunks and branches in place supports the resident wildlife and the local ecosystem. Plus, fungi (and lichen and moss) are amazing!
ReplyDeleteWe were driven back inside today after two days working out in the garden. I saw some of this bracket fungus on a tree we had cut down a while back. Cool stuff.
ReplyDeleteNot procrastination today, just thwarted.
They are beautiful as so many fungi are. Do you get honey fungus over there? It feeds on tree stumps here and then gradually gobbles up your garden. Not in one gulp obviously. But it is a constant, ongoing problem in my garden.
ReplyDeleteWe do get honey fungus here but thankfully I'm not aware of it being a problem in my garden.
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