Real? or Artificial?

This photo was actually taken at Hillerman's Nursery in Washington, MO. 
As you can see, these mushrooms are lawn ornaments.

Before

After

Some of the steps involved:
1. In Photoshop Elements, cropped and used Gaussian blur filter on the background.
2. Added several textures and blend modes.
3. Saved and opened it in OnOne Effects to add scratches and other effects.

Quite a difference! Just takes time and a fair amount of experimenting, but lots of fun learning new things.