Andrey 2016 Season

[Andrey_BY]

Bower,

picking mushrooms is my favorite hobby (equal to growing tomatoes) since my early childhood. I have always been living near a forest and pick mushrooms. The first mushrooms experience I've got was in Mongolia in local sugarloafs there you may find really big mushrooms.

That shrub is not ginseng, but Parthenocissus which was invited to grow in the forest near our dacha village by local gardeners and since then has been getting more and more space around and up

Originally Posted by bower

Magnificent! We're just having our first summer day too. 22 C or 71 F is summer hot for us. We won't see chanterelles until August here, and blueberries are lowbush, late august for them. How lucky to have them in June! And fabulous flowers, we're still running late so no peonies, and not even chives in bloom yet - which is one I usually see on midsummer day.


Andrey, in the first forest picture, is that ginseng growing on the ground?
That hedghog is priceless!