Too Mulch?

There’s no such thing as too much mulch, right? Right?!

Well, that escalated quickly. We got a load of mulch from my parents, scraps left over from this year’s pecan tree trimming, and the plan was to mulch over the ivy under the azaleas and camellia on the north side of the front yard. Well, we had extra. Now we’re going to mulch most of that side of the yard. It started with the jasmine we planted on our weird little tree. Then spread to the neighboring lavender. Now it’s headed for the birdbath. We don’t really need grass in our front yard, and I had thrown down some clover seed in hopes of covering over the bare spots with…something. But we’re not interested in watering much, so the mulch seemed like a good solution. It definitely needs spreading (and just some general aesthetic tending), which is not a strength of ours, but we’re getting there.

Tomorrow we’ll finish off that section and then hopefully get the south border (future home of hosta heaven) done. There’s a truck with a full bed parked in front of our house at this very moment.