If you're gardening in a warmer climate, you definitely need to know which mulch you should avoid at all costs if you want to protect your plants.

Swapping your gravel for mulch can offer a lot of improvements that suit your garden's needs, but you need to do it right to ...

"Mulch" is anything with which you blanket the ground, be it straw, black plastic, pebbles, even the marbles I once saw blanketing a portion of ground in a contemporary California landscape.

Pebble mulching is the practice of covering landscape beds with weed barrier fabric and then spreading a few inches of pebbles or decorative stone. Stone mulch has been widely used in commercial ...

Fire-safe inorganic mulches include rocks, pebbles, pavers, decomposed granite, bricks and gravel. But all inorganic mulch is not the same. Rubber mulch is also inorganic, but it is highly ...

Decorative gravel serves the same function in home landscapes as mulch, Keener said. Gravel doesn't hold moisture as well as mulch, but it does suppress weeds and improve a lawn's appearance.

Mulch xeric gardens with gravel Tue., Aug. 8, 2006 Crushed granite serves as the perfect mulch for drought-resistant plants and this blooming succulent.

This could be pebbles or gravel, plastic sheeting, shredded tires or organic mulch, such as compost (my No. 1 choice), pine needles, shredded bark or wood chips.

Gravel mulch could be a contributing factor. It tends to keep the soil cooler and more moist than organic mulch, and its […] Skip to content. All Sections. Subscribe Now. 77°F.

The pebbles can be colorful, but for even more color in a mulched area, plastic mulch materials are also available and can be arranged to be especially decorative and colorful.