Colored mulch for individual landscaping solutions
Design, function and cost-effectiveness
Leverkusen – Colored mulch is an innovative product for enhancing public spaces and private gardens. Bayer's range of high-grade BayScape™ pigments are supplied for coloring wood chippings for this application. If used properly, the pigments are entirely non-toxic and ecologically harmless. A variety of different shades are available – not just brown.
Mulch provides landscape architects, city authorities, industry and private homeowners with new scope for cost-effective and very attractive design. Red, dark red, orange, yellow and black products can be combined to yield color effects that are impossible using conventional bark mulch. Specific design elements in a landscaped area can be accentuated with color.
In addition to these esthetic properties, mulch demonstrates a high level of functionality when used in, for example, sport and leisure facilities. Among the beneficial properties is good noise absorption.
Colored mulch is an extremely economical product whose service life is around one third longer than that of conventional bark mulch.
Using Bayer's BayScape pigments, manufacturers produce wood chippings that retain their color intensity for years to come. The iron oxide pigments are harmless substances that occur naturally in the earth's crust. They adhere firmly on the wood chippings and cannot be washed out either by rain or snow.
When applying colored mulch for the first time, a rake is used to spread a layer 8 to 10 centimeters thick. Once the chippings have lost their color, there is no need to replace the entire layer. It is sufficient to spread a thin layer of new mulch on top of the old one.
In the United States, colored mulch has been popular for some while. Each year, an area totaling around 150 square kilometers is designed using the colored wood chippings. This is equivalent to an average of 15 square meters per household.
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