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Amy Powers on Instagram: "The best way to stop needing so much shredded hardwood mulch, is to plant more plants! I am using native Pennsylvania sedge, but you can use any plant you want! We want the plants spaced so that at full size they touch each other so then we don’t have the gaps in between our plants where the sun can hit the soil and mulch. When the sun hits the soil and the mulch, it warms up the soil and germinates weed seeds. That’s also where moisture is evaporating from the soil. Less gaps equals less weeds! If you use native plants like sedges, you are getting the added benefit of being a host plant for insects. You can then go back through the matrix of sedges and plant other flowering plants like columbine and milkweed and coneflowers. Follow me in later this week and I’m
41 Stunning Garden Decor Ideas For An Aesthetic Backyard - Lovely Harbor
41 Stunning Garden Decor Ideas for an Aesthetic Backyard 12
Fothergilla: flowers, fragrance & fall color
C Blue Mist Fothergilla (Fotherqilla gardenii ‘Blue Mist’) (1) Zones 5-8. Honey-scented white blooms, bluish foliage. 4’ tall