In Which I Bow to Peer Pressure, And Confirm My Hippie Nature
I got some flack for preferring Cypress bark mulch for dressing the front beds of my house. I defended my preference, citing my allergies to most conventional cedar, pine, and hardwood mulches. Personally, I’d prefer to use cheap shredded leaves, but I don’t have easy access to a large enough supply of them (anyone from the north is laughing right now, but we don’t have many mature trees in my neighborhood) and HOA bylaws specify bark, wood, or rubber mulches.
So when I went to buy mulch for the front beds today, I was faced with a hard choice. They were almost out of Cypress mulch, and if I beat a couple of old ladies away from the pile with my very large flat cart, I could probably get enough.
But they had plenty of eucalyptus mulch.
I was buying a bunch of things, including new CF bulbs for my hobby/sewing room and caulk to seal up some splits in the hardi-plank, and *still* haven’t looked at the receipt to see how much the price difference was.
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