You spend hours perfecting your garden beds, spreading fresh mulch around the foundation, and creating that magazine-worthy ...

Q: I was out poking around the garden beds on one of those recent warm days and noticed a nest of skinny winged insects crawling in the mulch. I was concerned that they might be termites, so I looked ...

The termites are coming! The termites are coming! But they aren’t coming in mulch harvested from trees downed by Katrina in the Gulf Coast region. They come every spring. In what may be the greatest e ...

Over the past few weeks, my e-mail box has been spilling over with warnings regarding the potential spread of Formosan termites in wood mulch that I might purchase at local garden centers or discount ...

When you see any of these indications, you know it's time to freshen up your mulch.

Earlier this month, I attended a lecture on tropical gardens. I enjoyed it until the Q&A session, when a homeowner asked the speaker if he thought mulch was a good idea. The lecturer said he didn’t ...