Purple Dust

A surprise can sometimes come in unusual places. I walked by one of the pile of logs in the garden and found an amazingly beautiful colour.
I believe the fungus is Daldina concentrica. A hard woody little fungus that grows on dead trees. But I have never seen such purple spores released by it. Normally they are just black. But these are blue black, looking as if somebody had spilt ink over the wood.



Hidden behind the Iris foetidissima and  nestled amongst ivy leaves, small Cyclamen hederifolium flower. These are growing in a lot of shade and in pretty dry conditions as they are at the base of conifers. But they
come up regularly every year.


Cyclamen hederifolium