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[quote=Anonymous]You don't need to mulch, ever. I have never used mulch. Real gardens should be densely planted, or at least planned to be densely planted at maturity, to avoid unsightly mulch.

The mulch phenomenon is a landscaping company gimmick that busy, non-gardening homeowners fall for because they don't know any better and think a yard needs to be neat above all else. I see the landscapers diligently pull up tiny plantings that are way too spaced-out, replace them seasonally with tiny new ones equally too spaced-out, and add fresh mulch all around them, never allowing anything to actually develop. This is now the "standard", such that people who have never been exposed to actual gardening techniques think this is the way a garden should look. A garden is never neat and tidy. It's alive and should be lush and a little bit "messy". The ultra-neat, spaced-out, "islands of plants in a sea of mulch" look is a lot more sterile in terms of biodiversity, and creates an inhospitable environment to insects, birds and other wildlife. Also it looks ugly.

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