Following on from this week’s Blog on the Wild Flower Census, momentous events are taking place in the Sombrun Forest Garden!

In conjunction with the Hügelkultur beds in the Upper Garden (Blog, April 15, 2023), I created a series of ‘mini-Hügels’ in Carré 4 in the Lower Garden (Blog of the same date), following the same principle (trenches, logs, branches, earth, compost), but with five beds close together over an area of about five metres square, and under some fruit trees.

In the year since this, the wood in the beds has begun to decompose and there have been several instances of fungi of various types showing above the ground on and around the beds, in both Upper and Lower Gardens. But by far the most spectacular are the ones below in the Carré 4 beds – Clathrus archeri, Octopus Stinkhorn, or Devil’s Fingers!

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