Daniel Greenwood

Winter-spring 2026: the loud lie What I am experiencing culturally in this rather wet winter of 2025-26

Here's my seasonal mind burp featuring Joseph Roth, the mushroom murders, autocracy in America, and a nice BBC film about windmills

Arun valley oaks around Billingshurst A long ramble (in both senses) around the oaken landscapes of Billingshurst, including the Wey & Arun Canal

Rambling around Billingshurst along the Wey & Arun Canal

Gifts from fallen trees Mushrooms around Ebernoe in West Sussex in October 2025

Mushrooms around Ebernoe Parish in West Sussex, October 2025

Ludshott Common in Hampshire The fungi found on an October day in the woody heaths of East Hampshire

Some new species for me at Ludshott Common in Hampshire

Along the South Downs from Washington to Bramber This is a long post with a lot of South Downs history in it. There's history here you can touch that dates back over 1000 years.

A long walk from Washington to Bramber on the South Downs Way with lots of history

Consumed by honey fungi Trying to identify different types of honey fungus in Mid Sussex

My attempt to come to terms with the diversity of honey fungi in Sussex

Muscular russulas at Sheffield Park A second visit to the National Trust's Sheffield Park in 2025, this time in October. There was a lot to see.

I found a lot of mushrooms at Sheffield Park during my second visit of 2025.

Fool’s Wood – my third poetry collection Fool's Wood is my third collection after I am living with the animals (2014), and Sumptuous beasts (2018).

My first poetry collection since 2018 - now available to stream and download on Bandcamp :)

New Forest National Park, September 2025 On 25th September 2025 I made my annual visit to the New Forest National Park to walk a 10-mile circular route from Brockenhurst railway station.

My mushroom highlights from a 10 mile walk around the New Forest National Park in late September

All the colours of the shroombow 🌈 Colgate, West Sussex, September 2025 There's a lot of different colours happening in this post. I've been wondering what makes a place 'good' for certain species of fungi. None more so than when I witnessed hundreds of fly agarics in some ancient woodland in Colgate in late September. This is one of those lovely spreads of fly agaric before the leaves fall and the October rain melts many of them.

All the colours of the shroombow 🌈

Colgate, West Sussex, September 2025 There's a lot of different colours happening in this post. I've been wondering what makes a place 'good' for certain species of fungi. None more so than when I witnessed hundreds of fly agarics in some ancient woodland in…

November 2025: beware of pity I've had a burst of American visitors in recent days (to my blog, not my house). So thanks for visiting, y'all, and sorry about the year you've had. You may have noticed I've slipped to monthly posts on here. Between April and October I posted blogs every Monday without pause, which is a tricky task when working full-time. The focus on a regular deadline can be helpful, but it can also take over, meaning I wasn't taking the time to focus on the bigger blogs that are waiting in the wings.

November 2025: beware of pity

I've had a burst of American visitors in recent days (to my blog, not my house). So thanks for visiting, y'all, and sorry about the year you've had. You may have noticed I've slipped to monthly posts on here. Between April and October I posted blogs every Monday…

Birch knight in Lower Beeding Lower Beeding, West Sussex, September 2025 This is the second part of a bike ride round the edge of the western High Weald, which was surprisingly fruitful. This post focuses on a little churchyard at the edge of Coolhurst Wood, which has no public access (according to the hostile signage). There were lots of blushers in the grasslands, which were fun to frame against the church itself (see the blog header image, also).

Some nice finds in a quiet churchyard in Lower Beeding

Beefsteak fungus on ancient oak Lower Beeding, West Sussex, September 2025 In September I was out on my bike to do some low-carbon mushrooming. It's a great way to get into some old woodlands that are very rich in fungi. Sussex is home to an astonishing array of ancient trees, most notably oak trees. This one is called the Sun Oak and is aged to over 800-years.

Beefsteak fungus on ancient oak

Lower Beeding, West Sussex, September 2025 In September I was out on my bike to do some low-carbon mushrooming. It's a great way to get into some old woodlands that are very rich in fungi. Sussex is home to an astonishing array of ancient trees, most notably oak…

The biggest Boletus edulis I’ve seen In mid-September I was out and about one morning to witness a big ol' bolete and hundreds of fly agaric in the woods.

A post featuring some of September's 'big game players'

Chicken of the woods, the old rotter! I was walking along the River Arun one lunchtime when I spotted a massive fungal outpouring a short distance away.

A floppy-but-mighty chicken-of-the-woods

Summer-autumn 2025: unveiling the sun Here's my seasonal update of stuff you don't need to know about, but then welcome to the Internet. What I’m writing Soon I will be self-publishing my third poetry collection, Fool’s Wood. It's seven years since my last one and this collection has taken longer because of LIFE. There will be a booklet and also an audio recording. Fungi Friday…

Summer-autumn 2025: unveiling the sun

Here's my seasonal update of stuff you don't need to know about, but then welcome to the Internet. What I’m writing Soon I will be self-publishing my third poetry collection, Fool’s Wood. It's seven years since my last one and this collection has taken longer…

Mushrooms at Sheffield Park National Trust Sheffield Park, Fletching Parish, East Sussex, September 2025 A journey into the other half of Sussex! Sheffield Park is a wonderful park and garden near Uckfield in East Sussex. It's free to National Trust members to enter but there's a fee otherwise. Sheffield Park is Grade I listed due to the autumn colour in the grounds, and I think it's a very good place to see/photograph fungi.

My finds at the spectacular Sheffield Park in East Sussex

Salisbury’s oak timbers Here's another entry in my slow-blogging Oak Timbers series. You can view my galleries and posts archive here. I visited Salisbury in Wiltshire (south-west England) for the first time in 2023 and was really charmed by the place. If you're interested in this kind of thing, Salisbury is the place for you. Here's a gallery of the timber-framed buildings that interested me the most.

A gallery of timber-framed buildings in Salisbury from 2022

Podcast: September fungi walk 🍄 I'm getting into more of a routine of recording and editing audio, so here is the latest episode of Unlocking Landscapes. Listen on Podbean or via the usual platforms. Also via YouTube: Following on from July's rather optimistic fungi walk, I popped back to the same area of ancient Wealden woodland to see if the rain had brought any mushrooms.

Podcast: September fungi walk 🍄

I'm getting into more of a routine of recording and editing audio, so here is the latest episode of Unlocking Landscapes. Listen on Podbean or via the usual platforms. Also via YouTube: Following on from July's rather optimistic fungi walk, I popped back to the same…

Thanks James! I did wonder you know. I'll add a line to the blog. I've got it on iNaturalist but no suggestions yet.

Shaggy scalycap Colgate, West Sussex, August 2025 In August I was perusing the woods in hope of some late summer shrooms. In these dry periods (August usually has rain, but not this year) it's best to look for large dead or decaying wood. And so it proved. I passed a large fallen pine trunk that has spent several years decaying, soaking up rain and moisture, getting mossy, and accommodating fungal life.

Shaggy scalycap

Colgate, West Sussex, August 2025 In August I was perusing the woods in hope of some late summer shrooms. In these dry periods (August usually has rain, but not this year) it's best to look for large dead or decaying wood. And so it proved. I passed a large fallen pine trunk that…

Austrian Alps: Innsbruck by sleeper train Innsbruck, Tyrol, Austria, June 2025 This is a longer post of the images I captured during a recent visit to Innsbruck in the Austrian Alps. We travelled to Innsbruck on a sleeper train from Amsterdam. It's such a great experience and is significantly lower in carbon emissions compared with flying. If you consider the fact it's travel and accommodation, as well as the ability to see so much more, it's a better way to travel.

A photographic tour of Innsbruck's architecture and some of the surrounding peaks

It was so shockingly dry, but still some things were pushing through. Holly doing a very good job of maintaining moisture levels in drought, I reckon.

Green brittlegill Ebernoe Parish, West Sussex, August 2025 On a hot and dry afternoon in late summer 2025 I headed out towards Petworth. The woods around there are well known for their fungal diversity, due to the amount of ancient Low Weald woodland, the number of old trees and lower impact land management. Let's keep it that way! It's surely one of the highest priority areas for conservation in the UK, so much so that I feel bad for even going there!

Some dried-out mushrooms from late August

Postcards from Western Ireland, September 2025 🇮🇪 I'm back from my annual visit to the west of Ireland. I managed a couple of day trips to forage for photos, which will crystallise later this year into dedicated posts, all being well. Like many people I enjoy the Blind Boy Podcast, none more so when I have the headspace to take in all that gets said in an episode.

Postcards from Western Ireland, September 2025 🇮🇪

I'm back from my annual visit to the west of Ireland. I managed a couple of day trips to forage for photos, which will crystallise later this year into dedicated posts, all being well. Like many people I enjoy the Blind Boy Podcast, none more so…

Mushrooms in England This is the first of a series of posts I've been working on covering national relationships with mushrooms. It's just a bit of fun, but there's definitely some interesting stuff to share.

England is one of the most diverse countries in the world (typified by London's long history of migrant communities) which actually makes it a great place to discuss fungi with people.

Spindleshank in Handcross Handcross, West Sussex, August 2025 Happy Fungi Friday! 🍄 It's that time of year when spindleshank is popping up at the toes of oaks that are not too healthy. I was in Handcross (technically Slaugham Parish) when I spotted my first spindleshanks of the year. They get their name from their long and spindly stipe or leg. Shank is an old English word for leg, hence redshank the wading bird with red legs.

Spindleshank in Handcross

Handcross, West Sussex, August 2025 Happy Fungi Friday! 🍄 It's that time of year when spindleshank is popping up at the toes of oaks that are not too healthy. I was in Handcross (technically Slaugham Parish) when I spotted my first spindleshanks of the year. They get…

Late summer timbers at the Weald & Downland Museum In August I made my annual visit to the Weald and Downland Living Museum in the South Downs. You can see my timber-framed building photo gallery here. This is the first view you encounter inside the museum grounds after you pay your entry fee. Amazing to think the medieval hall house is from Cray in the London Borough of Bexley.

Late summer timbers at the Weald & Downland Museum

In August I made my annual visit to the Weald and Downland Living Museum in the South Downs. You can see my timber-framed building photo gallery here. This is the first view you encounter inside the museum grounds after you pay your entry fee.…

Austrian Alps: up and down Schafberg Welcome to a big blog of sunny alpine images, from my walking highlight of the year so far.

Austrian Alps: up and down Schafberg

Welcome to a big blog of sunny alpine images, from my walking highlight of the year so far.

The previous CEO of the South Downs NPA would speak of a potential 'green bridge', but it never got anywhere. Maybe people weren't willing to admit the original decision was a grave mistake.