Q. We have some ugly yellow fungus growing on trees and shrubs, maybe coming from the hardwood mulch we put down this spring. What can we do to make it go away permanently? I sprayed it with a mixture ...

Landscape mulch usually consists of hardwood shreds or bark chips, providing cover to hold moisture and add a finished look. Wood in mulch also provides a food source for fungi that are natural ...

Q: We have ugly, yellow, foamy blobs of fungus that continually pop up in various areas of our freshly spread hardwood mulch. It doesn't seem to be in our neighbors' mulch beds. This is at least the ...

Is this the dreaded artillery fungus in my mulch? My brother had it in his mulch and he never did get off the black spots it shot onto his house and car. You dodged a bullet this time. This is bird’s ...

Q: Can identify what looks like some kind of mold growing in one of my flower beds? It just showed up this morning, and there are six clumps of this stuff, about the size of dinner plates. I haven’t ...

From frogs to fungi, it's been a fertile year for anything of the aquatic persuasion. Constant moisture allows just about any surface to support life. Multitudes of flat gray-green lichen and bright ...

Q: Which de-icers are safe to use around my landscape plants? A: De-icers are a type of salt, and they are not safe around landscape plants. When de-icers are used in high concentration, damage to ...

Sep. 6—Mulches provide numerous benefits in our landscapes, including conserving soil moisture and suppressing weeds, as well as providing a pleasing background to highlight landscape plantings.

I've been augmenting the soil in my banquette garden beds and planting new seedlings for spring bloom. When I pulled back the mulch (mostly leaves and some pine straw) and turned the soil, there were ...

Question: I recently added ligustrum trees to my landscape. Now some of the leaves are yellow, and a few have brown spots. Should I be concerned? Answer: Most gardeners see brown and yellow spots on ...

To help your perennials survive the winter, our pro gardener explains which of these you should mulch after the first hard ...