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