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Rural King Mulch

Group FounderGhostwolf04
Ghostwolf04

Is so much cheaper than Walmart! I got 15 bags yesterday in dark brown. What is your favorite mulch color and where do you use it?


Yesterday I cleared out 3 flower beds. I transplanted some yellow daffodils and coral and cream bleeding hearts. I got rid of some yuccas. I am working on the shade beds under the maple tree in my small front yard. I planted some more hastas, the variety with white on the leaves. I also planted 2 toad lilies. Now I just have to plant calladium and mulch. I like using a bit of peat moss too. Then I will just have one more shade bed to do. It is filled with daisies, echinacea, and wildflowers, with some spider wort like the other beds. I will move some of the spider wort, and likely grub out the wildflowers because they have a shirt blook season. I have one white peony out there. Maybe I will plant some more. Or hydrangeas since I have peat moss.

Group FounderGhostwolf04
Ghostwolf04
Bloom not blook lol. Also I am planting bulbs not whole plants. Stuff is just starting to come up and it's rainy, so easy transplant weather.
Community Leaderbobinmaine
bobinmaine
I have red and white bleeding hearts...:)

I use to buy my mulch at a local home improvement store but I have a small work shop behind my house that generates alot of sawdust so I use that instead....

My favorite mulch color is red.

Do you grow blueberries? They are easy to grow and take care of. I have about a dozen of the tall bush ones.
Group FounderGhostwolf04
Ghostwolf04
Yes I have 3 of the short ones that get about 3 feet tall. The one in the middle looks puny this year, but the other 2 are doing well. I just planted them last year, they seem to love peat moss too.
I used to have a big rock garden in an area of my yard that is red clay. I had red mulch in there with a few sun loving perennials and an old split rail piece of fence, plus tons of rocks and pieces of driftwood.
I had roses, grape hyacinths, lots of salvia, and some herbs like lemon balm. It kinda looked like a dessert garden with the red mulch.
Now that bed has been overrun with honeysuckle. I dug up and moved everything else. Maybe I will get it back in good shape idk.
I think I like the dark chocolate brown mulch better now.
Community Leaderbobinmaine
bobinmaine
:) I have two that are not doing well and I think I may transplant them to a different part of my property that has more sun and better soil. Now is the time to do it from what I have read.
Group FounderGhostwolf04
Ghostwolf04
Yes now there aren't much weeds yet and the soil is cool and moist and less likely to shock their roots. I planted a hosta Wednesday and yesterday I decided to put a calladium there so I moved the hosta and it was already sprouted and 3 times the size. Looked like a weird little creature. I kinda felt bad moving him. I hope he makes it.
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