Category: East Sussex
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Muscular russulas at Sheffield Park, October 2025

A second visit to the National Trust’s Sheffield Park in 2025, this time in October. There was a lot to see.
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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…
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Tawny grisette in June

This week I saw one of my first proper mushrooms of the summer period. During a walk after work through Ashdown Forest I spotted a tawny grisette under some low bracken at the edge of a wooded heathland. This is a common species on heathland in south-east England. The photo…
