Allium & Mulch Aesthetics

     
     <<Most likely its frost damage...>>
     
     This is first year for me and alliums, but I could ditto that. The 
     alliums were fine, then hard frost one night a couple of weeks ago, 
     next day, browned tips, and since then brown has been slowy traveling 
     down the length of the foliage. The nite of the frost I went to put an 
     overturned bucket on top of them, but they were already too tall. oh 
     well.
     
     On another topic newly of interest to me:
     
     A friend of mine had commented recently that orange shredded bark is 
     really gouache.
     
     Last week I top dressed all beds with a generous inch of composted 
     manure & hummus, then mulched for the first time with buckwheat hulls. 
     
     The buckwheat hulls were slightly less expensive than cocoa hulls, 
     plus I hate chocolate and the cocoa did exude a slight scent, I went 
     with the buckwheat.
     
     So now that I've tried the hulls, I'll have to say, to my eye, the 
     hulls are aestheticly far superior. The look is simple yet refined, 
     and because they are so subdued, the plants have the stage. 
     
     Anyone else on preferences? And most importantly, how about different 
     mulches in terms of their functionality, not looks?
     
     Laurie
     Medford, MA
     zone 6
     
     

     
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