A question for Dan Gill: This is the second year that this fungus (see photo above) has shown up. It smells like something dead. What is it, and what can I do? -- Nancy Fraley Answer: This is one of ...

Question: We installed new mulch and soon stinky orange mushroom-like growths started popping up in the shrub beds. Is there a way to eliminate them from among the plantings? Answer: Maybe the fungal ...

Garden columnist Dan Gill answers readers' questions each week. To send a question, email Gill at [email protected]. For the second year, a fungus that smells like something dead has shown up in ...

Cool weather and moisture in the winter here in Florida may lead to some foul-smelling fungi appearing in your mulch. Stinkhorn fungi can be quite striking in the landscape but are often viewed as a ...

Garden columnist Dan Gill answers readers' questions each week. To send a question, email Gill at [email protected]. For the second year, a fungus that smells like something dead has shown up in ...

Usually it’s possible to find both the good and bad in things. When it comes to the Phallaceae family of fungi, a.k.a. the stinkhorn mushrooms, however, there is only side to the story, and it is ...

With enough wood shaving to fill up the Grand Canyon around town, we are seeing some gross things popping up all over. These disgusting monsters rise out of the ground and smell comparable to the ...

The largest organism in the world isn’t the blue whale, weighing in at 150 tons. That’s about 75 Chevy Silverados. It’s not the African bush elephant, either, clocking in at a measly six tons. The ...

CHICAGO — WGN’s “Plant Daddy” Tim Joyce is back to share some weekend gardening tips, including how to kill weeds growing between rocks in a low-maintenance lawn, what to do with stinkhorn mushrooms ...