Yesterday was a lovely warm but breezy autumn day so I took the opportunity to do some hedge-cutting. The Boggy Brae 'north-west passage' between the birch bank and the rhododendron hedge needed widened again. The photo to the right shows the widest bit. It gets narrower as you progress south-eastwards:
You have to negotiate that bit with one foot on the 'path' and one on the steep bank to the right. In a couple of spots right next to the path, heather (Ling/
Calluna vulgaris) has established itself. I want that to spread. There's also a tiny rowan tree. I haven't decided whether to let that stay there yet. I do like rowan trees.
Between blasts at the hedge with the hedge-cutter and while raking up the cuttings, I found several toadstools. I don't know their names yet.
I think this one is a milkcap (
Lactarius). It best fits the description of
L. azonites rather than Birch Milkcap (
L. tabidus) or Grey Milkcap (
L. vietus). None of them are edible.
Also down there at the bottom of the bank is my latest bryophytic find, the liverwort Greater Featherwort (
Plagiochila asplenioides).
And the autumnal dying back of Self-heal is lovely to watch:
Today is dreich and the hills have put on their invisibility cloak so the other side of the hedge will have to wait.
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