Texas Gardening: Tree mounding with mulch, 1 by antiquedrose

antiquedrose wrote:
With regards to mulching, the how to's vary, according to whom you talk too, and when. Experts abound on the web and everybody's got an opinion.

Trends and helpful assisting devices for mulching come and go. Talk to several experts, and I mean the horticulturist variety, and you'll get different opinions. Kinda like the human body experts, dukeing it out today over mamography.

The following pine pics are from the grounds of the Native Plant Center at Stephen F Austin University in Nacogdoches. I'll let them speak for themselves. And lawdy, if we can't trust these folk, I give up.