[Ozzello]

I have noticed a lot of people using dyed mulches lately. Mostly the red and black. Dyed mulches should come with a warning sticker:

WARNING!
This mulch may already have (will eventually have) TERMITES.
This mulch has or will eventually have, ARTILLERY FUNGUS.

Artillery fungus was a hot topic a decade or so back in The Villages, but many of the landscapers and nursery help were the real deal back then and actually informed or even educated. Now days in TV's landscape scene it's mostly salespeople who learned just enough to convince you to buy....... so here's the quick..

The fungus explodes small burgundy-colored spores for about 20 feet that stick like glue to your home, car or whatever is near. once dried, it will be similar in texture to paint, and just as hard to remove. On white fence (like in villas) or on your car, it looks as if some painter was cleaning his brushes and flicking a mist of paint.

Not sure if the dye is the culprit or the chipped up scrap wood they use, but I have not seen the fungus where only plain pinebark was used as mulch, and haven't dealt enough with dyed pinebark to form an opinion.

[Topspinmo]

Agree, also it floats off when heavy rain. Weed still pop up through it eventually.