By Caloundra Produce & Landscape Supplies
When the Sunshine Coast heat kicks in and rainfall drops, your garden feels it first. Dry soil, thirsty plants, and water restrictions can make maintaining a lush garden a real challenge. But there’s one simple, effective way to beat the heat mulching.
Mulching is more than just a tidy finishing touch. It’s a protective barrier that helps your garden survive and thrive through our dry, hot months.
A good mulch layer offers benefits that go far beyond looks:
At Caloundra Produce & Landscape Supplies, we stock a wide range of quality mulches suitable for every type of garden and budget. Here’s how they compare so you can make the right choice for your space.
Cypress Woodchip is guaranteed to Refresh Your Garden. With its rich golden appearance and a fresh Cypress fragrance, it is demanded both domestically and internationally as an ideal landscape solution. Being from the Cypress tree, it is reported to deter white ants and termites from your garden.
ypress Mulch is our top of the range mulch solution ideal for windswept areas and steep embankments and is readily used on high end projects and in beautifully landscaped homes in Sunshine Coast region due to its ability to matte down and bind together.
It is often used as a Hoop substitute and for high-end jobs that demand a product with a point of difference and longevity. A rich, fragrant smell, red/brown appearance and a soft texture make it an ideal choice for quality finishes. Mulch and woodchip sourced from the cypress tree is reported to deter insect activity, such as white ants, termites and cockroaches.
Produced from natural hardwood. Very slow to decompose maing it long lasting.
Lightens in colour overtime, great budget mulch to hold in moisture and keep weeds down.
Screened Hardwood chip ranges in size of up to 25mm square.
A Stage 1 pasteurised composted green waste that is relatively clean. Ideal for mulching the garden as well as adding organic matter into old soil. Particle size ranges from 0-15mm.
Great soil improver and can be used also as a compost mix.
25mm strips (1 inch) of a strong dark coloured bark that tends to hold onto embankments, and also has a pleasing natural appearance.
Hoop Pine Bark is a traditional landscapers favourite product for heavily wind swept areas or steep embankments. It is a curly brown product with a rough texture with varying colour from a deep brown to glimpses of deep pinks and reds.
Hoop Pine Bark will interlink perfectly to hold on in almost any situation. This bark it is an ideal product that will keep the weeds at bay, retain moisture and eventually break down and add to your nutrient rich soil.
Slash Bark 15-25mm is a tan coloured decorative, chunky bark mulch with a pine fragrance. Its benefits include a light product that is easy to install. This is our most popular choice for residential and commercial gardens.
A natural mulch is amulching material produced from the shredded bark of pine trees.
It is reddish brown in colour, ranging from light brown to dark down.
This mulch is good in harboring moisture and ‘suppressing’ weeds when applied properly.
Searles Sugar Cane Mulch 100% Organic
Searles Organic Sugar Cane Mulch is a natural premium grade mulch, prepared from dried and cut clean sugar cane leaves. Packaged in a convenient compressed bale ready for immediate use.
Certified 100% organic mulch enhances gardens & saves water.
- Covers up to 23 square metres, at 20mm depth (topping up existing mulch).
– Enhances gardens & saves water.
– Suppresses weed germination.
– Protects soil against erosion & temperature extremes.
– Enriches soil & encourages worms.
- Approx. 80 litres compressed bale.
The original, simple safe and cost-effective water-saving mulch.
Ideal for mulching new and established garden beds.
Sugar Cane Rolls are a slightly coarser cut than the compressed bags of Sugar Cane.
They are ideal for large areas to be mulched.
All types of Sugar Cane Mulch assist in suppressing weeds and feeding your soil as it breaks down.
How to use
Lay the mulch at a depth of 50-70mm
Depending on the area being mulched, you may mulch up to 100mm deep.
Handy Info
A natural looking fibrous mulch, fine in texture with a lovely, natural smelling aroma from the natural tea tree oils. Dark brown in colour and with excellent water holding capabilities, this tea tree mulch is a no brainer to keep your plants healthy and your yard looking neat. Tea tree mulch also protects your home by having a repellant effect on termites and inhibiting weed growth. It also helps create an earthworm friendly soil structure when it breaks down into organic matter.
Benefits of Tea Tree Mulch
Whether you need a few bags or a bulk load, we’ve got you covered with same-day local delivery on most landscape products.
Explore our full mulch range online or visit us in-store — our friendly team can help you choose the right option for your garden and local conditions.
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