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There are still frosty mornings but after a short winter we feel spring coming.

Everywhere camellias and rhododendrons are blooming in pink, violet and purple.

My part shade garden shows leaves of orange mint, lemon balm, gotu kola and nettle.

Beside the shed we can still find basket fungi popping out

They taste good stir fried in butter or in a soup with potatoes. But you must know for sure what you collect. Mostly an older basket fungi is growing beside.
I know mine since I have observed them for a while and know now exactly where they will pop out

Beside this spot grows onion weed.
Oh I just love this herb and think I couldn’t live with out it anymore.
Onion weed goes onto most every meal as garnish or I add them to soup, salad and herb butter.
At the moment it is very strong in colour, taste and smell and I guess this is a good reason to use it on a daily basis as a green healthy, blood cleansing and nourishing herb.

Beside the onion weed is also honesty blooming which I also add to my diet (please click here for a honesty post with all it’s uses)

At the moment it is more rainy then shine, and when the rain stops it is pretty cold…

… but even the frost has it’s personal beauty

When the sun slowly wakes up every spot on the grass the world is glittering like covered in fairy dust.

We love the rain bows and don’t mind the weather.

Aileen and David even play outside with the hose to make a waterfall in the sand pit…

… or venture into our little ‘wild corner’ to look for mushrooms.

Most fungi grow on tree stomps…

… but also on the ground like this orange cuties around my yarrow

The biggest surprise today was this little patch of mushrooms I first thought might be puff balls…

… but look at this!
This are lovely white buds (Champignon in German and Agaricus bisporus in Latin) growing in our little forest!
Yum! What a great lunch with some potatoes and onion weed!

It looks like mushroom season just started, here in New Zealand.

Fly agaric are popping up every where.

David is a happy little Hobbit in the woods, when he is examining every mushroom

Not only fly agaric are booming, we also found puffballs with their white flesh.

We looking forward to a new adventure in the woods and hope to find some edible treasures

When we went into the forest today, David was so cute beside this beautiful fern.

It is amazing how big the curls of the new leaf are.

We found some mushrooms… but not edible
Anyway, I was in the mood to make something autumn related and had already soaked 1 cup full of mushrooms over night.
Here is a new recipe.
Enjoy!