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  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,139

    Looks like the fruiting bodies of honey fungus to me - if it's producing toadstools the fungus has been there for quite a while.


    Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.





  •  think this may be a reaction to the way you treat your garden. Have you been using chemicals or removed other fungus that is supposed to live naturally in your garden? The honey fungus is a natural part of the eco system, and it will appear in cultivated gardens that are not treated the way the need to be. 

    It's probably there to balance out the harm you've done to your garden, which may take some years, so you could just leave it and let it do it's job. 

       
  • Hostafan1Hostafan1 Posts: 34,888

    I had HF in my last garden and I too lost a willow. Well the person who bought the house from me did. It was still alive when I left, just.

    I worried about bring plants with me when I moved, but it's here anyway , a long way off from anything I brought here. 

    "Never worry about things over which you have no control"

    Devon.
  • punkdocpunkdoc Posts: 15,039

    FL. Very unpleasant post. There is no evidence to suggest that honey fungus is caused by anything that we might do to our gardens.

    Mr Mustard was asking for advice, which is what everyone on this site tries to give, if they are able.

    How can you lie there and think of England
    When you don't even know who's in the team

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  • Steve 309Steve 309 Posts: 2,753

    Here's another one:  In a month or two I'm going to be helping to remove three C. leylandii trees from someone's garden.  How much danger is there of the remaining roots (there are bound to be some) getting infected by HF?  There's no evidence of it existing there so far.

  • Steve 309Steve 309 Posts: 2,753

    ...and, as I've said before, our gardens aren't natural anyway.  Left to themselves they'd (mostly) revert to mixed deciduous woodland eventually.  Which would be nice, but would produce less food and fewer flowers of the kinds we want.

  • Hostafan1Hostafan1 Posts: 34,888

    methinks FL is a Twit, or is that a typo?

    Devon.
  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,139

    I'm glad to see you're continuing with you usual restraint Hosta image


    Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.





  • Hostafan1Hostafan1 Posts: 34,888

    moi?image

    Devon.
  • LeifUKLeifUK Posts: 573

    Ragdolly: No, that is not honey fungus, it is probably Coprinellus micaceus, a harmless species that decomposes dead wood, breaking it down into humus, which will enrich your soil.

    FungusLover's post is utter nonsense. Honey Fungus is a parasite of living trees, and will feed off dead wood too. 

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