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Sustainable Alternatives to Cypress Mulch |
Recycled Yard Waste
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Recycled Yard Waste
 Free
Renewable
Readily available
Attractive
Stays in place well
Free and easily available! Don’t throw away those yard clippings and then go
buy mulch at the store. Some of the best mulch out there is right in
your backyard, you just have to collect it.
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Leaves
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Leaves
Free
Renewable
Readily available
Naturally Attractive
Often overlooked, leaves are not only readily available and a renewable resource they happen to be nature's original mulch. Instead of piling those leaves in bags by the curb use them for mulch.
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Pine Straw Mulch
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Pine Straw
Stays in place well
Very attractive
Renewable
You can rake pine
needles from your yard, or buy them at a store after they’ve been raked
up from the floor of a pine plantation.
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Pine Bark Mulch
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Pine Bark Mulch
Lasts a long time
Comes in nuggets or shredded form
By-product of timber milling
Pine bark is made from the scraps of
trees that are turned into lumber, turning a waste product in a
beneficial mulch.
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Eucalyptus Mulch
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Eucalyptus Mulch
Farmed for mulch
Very aromatic
Insect resistant
Looks similar to
cypress
If it’s the aesthetics of cypress you like, this is your
substitute! Plus, it helps keeps bugs and weeds away very well.
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Other
creative choices include: sugarcane bagasse, recycled pecan shells,
coconut husks, gravel and rocks, recycled newspapers, and many more!
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