When shopping for organic mulch, you will most likely come across cypress mulch. Home improvement stores and garden centers sell either 100 percent cypress mulch or a cypress mulch blend that also ...

The first step is choosing the best type of mulch for your garden. Although purchasing a specific mulch type is always an ...

A: Pure cypress mulch will last longer than cedar blend mulch. Cedar blend is composed of shredded cedar or juniper trees plus material from other types of trees. This “non-cedar” material ...

If you’ve read Michael Behar’s “Mulch Madness,” you already know that the sale of cypress mulch is threatening to destroy Louisiana’s best defense against hurricanes and one of the ...

As a result, the department has issued a stop-sale order prohibiting the sale of the following Ohio Mulch products: Cypress Elite All Bark Cypress, Golden Trophy Cypress Blend, Golden Trophy Pine ...

Is it better than other mulch such as mixed-wood mulch?B.A.Z, Ormond BeachAnswer: Cypress mulch does help to control weeds, as would any other material such as mixed-wood mulch or leaves.

Q.: Two years ago, I put cypress mulch three to five inches deep on my flower beds. It worked great, the plants grew nicely and blossomed well. Last year, I added more mulch but the plants did not ...

Using a new method of analyzing wood, the researchers found that bags of cypress mulch might contain only 30 to 60 percent of cypress wood – and in some cases, none at all.

Cypress mulch can come from whole, old-growth trees cut from wetlands. Its use is discouraged in landscaping. Some local laws even regulate it.

We Floridians love our winter gardens: What could be prettier than impatiens and begonias neatly bedded in cypress mulch?Before planting your garden, please take a trip to the Arthur R. Marshall ...