Any self respecting landscape designer will tell you the secret to a good landscape design is harnessing the natural elements of the particular landscape in an effective design. Natural plants, natural shapes, natural colors.
And then you go buy red mulch at Home Depot and screw up everything. Was it on sale? That’s the only thing I can figure. Some of you even get red plastic mulch.
At best, this stuff only maintains the mud brick red color for a couple of weeks and then fades. Now you’re back to brown mulch. Why do you get it in the first place?
My biggest complaint about red mulch is that red mulch is totally unnatural looking and then you have to go get tons of those yard gazing globe things to try to cover it up.
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Have you ever seen the soil color in Arizona? And some parts of Virginia? They are red, just like the mulch.
More to the point, red plastic mulch isn’t for looks, it’s for yields. The stuff is used to increase yields of tomatoes, peppers, eggplants, cantaloupe, muskmelon, and so on.
No idea about red wood mulches, but the plastic stuff is for work, not for looks.
RP on March 4th, 2008 at 1:00 pm | Link
I love me some red mulch!
flounder on July 8th, 2008 at 1:19 pm | Link
I’m for all natural. Red mulch is just hideous, like astroturf before it. Personally I think its great for people who would also consider an entire yard of only white gravel, or perhaps ground black rubber tires? Here’s hoping its just a passing fad, like faux paint on your living room walls, 80s style.
fingershop on January 26th, 2009 at 6:40 pm | Link
Everyone uses red mulch here in Florida. It looks great. I just put down six yards (a dozen bags) of it in our front garden.
ES on May 18th, 2009 at 5:03 am | Link
I am here in Florida too, am actually google searching red mulch to see where I can get some for cheap. ES is right, it looks great here. Maybe it is just something about the plant life in Florida, but it seems to do the homestead good.
Kevin on July 2nd, 2009 at 11:45 am | Link