[Bonanza]

Originally Posted by Phanatic Luvr

As you said Bonanza, beauty is in the eye's of the beholder. We have stoned around a good portion of our home but use pine straw in the rest of our beds. Here's why ... we cut our own lawn and pine straw does not fly up and hit you in the face, as mulch does, when hit with a weed wacker. Also, I always remember a good friend of mine, who owned his own exterminating business up north, telling us never to place mulch around our home, as it can be infested with termites. A whole different prospective.

If you don't have any edging around your planted areas, I guess you could hit a piece of mulch with your weed wacker.

The termite mulch thing sounds like something an exterminator would say to his customers. In my experience in attending at least, over a hundred house/termite inspections, never have I seen or heard about termites from mulch. Bugs, yes. Lizards, yes. Particularly when the weather gets colder, they may hibernate in mulch. In addition, you'd couldn't possibly have termites at all, if the mulch was cypress.