People usually like to have a final say on what grows in their gardens. Nature has its own opinion, which is a constant source of conflict and work for
gardeners. It is not just weeds and pests. The same applies to mushrooms. Wind, insects, birds and animals, humans included, carry the spores or fragments of mycelium, and that is all there is needed to spread the mushrooms.
It is no different in my garden. By far the most common mushroom in my garden is some kind of Hebeloma.
They grow mostly under and around various conifers.
There are also hordes of small delicate grey or brown mushrooms, likely Mycena.
Finally orange brown, maybe Laccaria laccata, are also quite popular.
Ah, there are also these guys that likely came with the latest supplement of bark.
And finally the dark brown - possibly another Mycena.
There are some other mushrooms as well, some I try to get rid of, like earth balls.
But that is not all. Every time I go foraging for mushrooms in the nearby forest, there is a lot of leftovers from selection and cleaning. All fragments of stems, too old or wormy, eaten by snails too much etc. land in a "landfills" near various trees, depending on kind of mushroom. As a result I managed to get some good edible mushrooms to grow in the garden, although I'm not really content with their numbers. With the exception of slippery jack that grows in acceptable numbers, I only get small amount or even single specimen a year of three types of Leccinum, oyster mushroom and Macrolepiota procera.
The problem with slippery jacks is that most of them hide in grass and often get decapitated during mowing.
