Mulch or pine needles in flower bed?

Yeah, I don’t have flowers either. I ain’t got time for that

Call Gomez. I’m about to place my order.

I’m a pine straw advocate for landscape beds, but I’ll use pine bark or wood chip mulch in containers.

+1 on pine straw. Don’t buy cypress mulch, no one needs to cut cypress down, and those trees aren’t coming from managed forests/tree farms. Pine straw is renewable, inexpensive, and adds to the soil.

My Bama fan neighbor just pulled up bark nuggets and put down effing RUBBER chunks. WTF? Yeah, let’s find a way to spread non biodegradable waste over our soil. Next spring, he’ll be whining to me about his camellias not blooming....and he won’t ever admit that his black rubber mulch cooking their roots might be a contributing factor.

termites don't eat pine straw.. so pine straw.

Pine straw works well for me. Keep an extra bale or two around. If the beds start looking a little rough or get leaves in them, just shake a few pads of new straw over it for a fresh look.

They usually have it in a semi-trailer in the lot of Home Depot and Lowes. Pay in the garden center and go load. I've paid more at a couple of local places, but I think it was the same quality.

I pass a newly built house every day, these morons put out straw over the entire yard instead of grass.

I say needles. Mulch makes stank arse penis mushrooms.

If it’s a landscape bed with plants you actually care about use double ground or shredded hardwood mulch (not cypress). Pine needles don’t really add any nutrients or retain that much moisture. The mulch breaks down and you’ll get beneficial microbes and earthworms.

Also I think it looks weird when there are tons of pine needles on the ground and not a pine tree in sight.