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 ...

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 ...

Q: A few weeks ago, a few of these items showed up in our yard. Do you care to hazard a guess as to what they are? They look like alien creatures to me, although I suspect they are just a type of ...

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 ...

We have had a flush of mushrooms after last winter’s generous rainfall. A recent example was a surprise. It emerged in the wood chip mulch under a Deodora cedar in a Napa garden. I had not seen 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 ...

Stinkhorn fungi (devil's backbone) has been smelling up new mulch beds all over the Lowcountry. The conditions have been perfect for the growth of this fungus this spring. We have been inundated with ...

Walking in the woods, or the garden, or your backyard this time of year, especially after the recent rain, is a prime time to look for mushrooms. They seem to be popping up everywhere, seemingly ...

It was nice to see the sun again after five days of much needed and much welcomed rain. But unfortunately countless people in the South are now suffering due to its origin. And also unfortunately, ...