Mulch: The Ultimate Water Miser

Wood Mulch: a variety of colors and textures

Need a quick and easy way to enhance the beauty of your landscape and save water? A well selected mulch or top dressing will enhance your outdoor landscape in many ways:

• Reduce irrigation by 20% or more
• Completely eliminate irrigation in targeted areas
• Enhance appearance, even under hardy conditions
• Moderate soil and environment temperates
• Prevent destructive and wasteful runoff
• Reduce weeds, and simplify maintenance

Swan’s interest in mulch is for the purpose of replacing high water use ground cover around trees and shrubs, with mulches, thus eliminating the need for expensive irrigation. Mulches conserve soil moisture by blocking in water to prevent evaporation. They also moderate soil temperatures, prevent weed growth, and prevent water run-off from over watering. Using mulch can add up to 20% in water savings.

Wood Products
These natural products originate from American forests, and are a recycled by product of the lumber industry. Made from the tree bark, they will last anywhere between 2 to 3 years with only minimal maintenance.

Rock Products
Rock dressings will last forever, are low maintenance, though they are more expensive then other mulches. As the temperature rises, so does the rock temperature, making them ideal for cooler climates and areas not located in full sun. The heat retained by the rocks can actually extend the growing season of your plants during cool seasons.

Decomposed Granite
A natural product, soft under foot, decomposed granite is often used in drought tolerant landscapes as a substitute for ground cover. Another excellent application is for pathways where compaction and liquid stabilizer is used to prevent shifting.

Rubber
Rubber mulch is derived from recycled tires. This material is very long lived, can be painted different colors, and is an excellent retainer of moisture in the soil. Because rubber decomposes very slowly, it is not considered an eco-aware choice.

Coming Soon: Our online mulch gallery.

Swan Drought Tolerant Technologies is a part of Landscape Design, Inc. a California Corporation. Ca contractor’s lic #486431. For more information, visit our contact page.