It's sterile, which means it doesn't produce seeds. It grows into a low mound of, maybe a foot tall, and then eventually, two feet wide or so. Also, please don't use lava rock.Ĭatmint is a perennial with a tidy shape. And if you've got that all around your house, when you come out of the door it just doesn't look right. Don't use white rock, please, especially in the South, because it gets really hot and bright here, especially in the summer. They have this garbage out there right now, it's called Rubber Mulch. Don't use any kind of manufactured stuff. It's an acid-forming mulch as it decomposes, so it's great to put underneath azaleas, etc. I like to use pine straw myself because I have long-leaf pines in my yard. I think either wood chips or pine straw makes really nice mulch. But it really depends on what's available and the kind of look that you like. If you live far down South, a lot of times you have cypress mulch that's made out of cypress trees. You might have lots of hardwoods, and then you're going to have hardwood mulch. Depending on where you live, you can have lots of pine trees and you're going to have pine straw. Grumpy Gardener Answer: The kind of mulch that you should use is the kind that's readily-available in your area. Question: Some people mulch with pine straw, and others use wood chips.
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