This petrea vine is stealing the show right now (petrea volubilis).
- Stinkhorn mushrooms are the current garden nemesis. They keep popping up everywhere. Nastiest. Mushroom. Ever. Toby can smell them as soon as he walks outside. He throws them away as illustrated in method 1 of this hilarious info-graphic. I’ll spare you a photo of those. How about these orchids instead?
Epidendrum radicans
- Did you see this video of the bobcat catching a shark at Sebastian Inlet? Amazing hunters.
- We fished around Captiva recently. Somehow we managed to catch a few big pompano, even though these dolphins were circling and chasing them the whole time. They were very entertaining. Look at that face!
- I went to a cooking with tea demonstration at TeBella, hosted by Mis en Place. I’m working on a recipe of my own with tea and fish, which I’ll be sharing soon.
- The book I’ve been recommending to everyone lately is A High Wind in Jamaica by Richard Hughes. First published in 1929 but timeless, it’s a gothic tale of a group of children captured by pirates in the Caribbean Sea on their passage to England. This book is the antithesis of Peter Pan. It was groundbreaking in its dark portrayal of children and it paved the way for books like Lord of the Flies.
Wow, that’s an amazing shot of the dolphin! Those stinkhorns sound mighty gross.
Thanks, Christina! The dolphins around there are used to getting handouts for being cute. I’m adding another video to my instagram of one fetching like a dog. I read that some people actually eat those rotten mushrooms. Ugh.
last year we got a load of topsoil that had been contaminated with stinkhorn spores… I never heard of them before that. I would know right away when one of those putrid smelling nasty alien looking things would emerge from their smell. I too have a method of seek and destroy… Search for it by my nose, take my shovel, hold my breath, dig it out, plop it onto old newspaper wrap it up and trash. We had to excavate all of the topsoil out to get rid of them.
I’m sorry to hear you had to go through that. I hope they don’t come back!