Ornamental Decorative Bark
A high grade, natural, decorative bark, suitable for borders, paths and mulching.
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Product Description
What is Ornamental Decorative Bark?
Compost Direct’s ornamental decorative bark is a top-quality natural pine bark sourced from sustainable forests. It has been chipped and graded to a uniform size of 20–40 mm, with minimal fines content.
Why use Ornamental Bark?
Decorative bark has both aesthetic and functional properties, including:
- Aesthetically pleasing
- Ideal for tidying garden borders, flower beds and paths.
- Reduce garden maintenance by suppressing weed growth.
- Conserves soil moisture during hot weather.
- Reduces soil erosion during heavy rain.
- Helps insulate plant root area during frosty periods.
- Long-lasting material, with an approximate 2–4 year lifespan.
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Key Benefits
Ornamental bark has both aesthetic and functional properties;
- High impact appearance.
- Ideal for tidying garden borders, flower beds and paths.
- Helps reduce garden maintenance by suppressing weed growth.
- Helps conserve soil moisture during hot weather.
- Helps reduce soil erosion during heavy rain.
- Helps insulate plant root area during frosty periods.
- Long lasting material, approximately 2 – 4 years.
How to Use
How to use Ornamental Bark...
Ornamental bark is quick and easy to lay by simply raking out over the area required.
For maximum benefit, the area should first be weeded before raking out the bark to a minimum depth of 50 – 80 mm. If the area is particularly susceptible to weed growth, first lay down a fabric membrane, then apply bark to a depth of 50 mm.
When to use Ornamental Bark...
This bark can be applied all year round and should last for several seasons, only requiring a top up of fresh bark on the surface to maintain its striking appearance.
Product Guidance
Product Guidance
- Ideally use within 1 year of purchase.
- Product is sold as one Bulk Bag which is approximately 900L when filled. Product may settle or compress during filling and transport.
- As with all gardening activities, please wear gloves and wash hands when finished and before eating or drinking any thing.
- Store unused products away from potential contamination such as chemicals or weed killers.
- To avoid danger of suffocation, keep bags away from babies and children.
- As with all natural materials, photos may vary slightly from the actual product.
- Product can be applied safely in gardens with animals and children. Some animals may be attracted to manures – manure can be dug in to reduce the attraction although it will not be harmful to them.
- During storage, organic materials may develop a white mould, this is completely natural and harmless and will soon disappear when agitated.
- When soil is disturbed and organic matter applied, mushrooms and other types on fungi may temporarily appear. This is great news as the natural soil web is returning to your garden, just hoe them over and they will disappear. They are harmless.
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