Strange puffballs have died off

SANDRA ENGEL of Van Riebeeck Park writes:

I am the Van Riebeeck Park resident whose story of a strange type of fungi in my garden Kempton Express published online in March.

I wish to thank not only Express for publishing my query, but also the several readers who responded, advising me about these ‘puffballs’, of which I had never heard.

I later learned that puffballs had subsequently appeared in a few other gardens in this suburb.

More puffballs sprung up in my flowerbeds and lawn even after publication of the article, but now, mid-May, they all seem to have died off.

I will await late 2020 and early 2021 with interest to see if they reappear.