I love the smell of mulch in the morning - 2018
Mulch delivered, installed and spread for the year: Done and Done. Here's the post (with the same title) from 2011 including a video of the steaming pile being dumped on our driveway in Elmhurst. Here's the post from 2013 showing our (then) beds being freshly mulched. And here's the post from 2015 . Weird that I posted them every two years, despite mulch being applied every year. But, in that post from 2015 , you can see some of yard that I had worked at for six years to get it to a place that I was starting to be happy with in terms of plants and landscape. We had daylilies, some HUGE stands of Ostrich Ferns, a happy bunch of variegated hostas, a really beautiful (if just for a week or so) crabapple tree, a Ginko tree, an out-of-control Pussy Willow and even a fruiting Pear tree all in that one shot . I took the photo above in this post from our front porch and it shows three of our Strawberry Vanilla Hydrangeas and six of our Green Velvet Boxwoods. The