There are several different uses for bark in your garden.
Bark is a fantastic way of finishing off your garden borders. Once you’ve neatened the edges with your half moon along a piece of string as a guide, and weeded the beds thoroughly you should then apply a good mulch of bark.
Bark helps keeps the water in, the weeds down and gives it all a tidy look. You’ll find blackbirds love it too and will pick through it for insects! It’s an eco-friendly way of keeping weeds down too and even if weeds do grow they should be easier to pull up. It’s good for soils that dry out and for borders planted with winter bedding. It’ll give your garden a really professional finish.
Bark can also be used in children’s play areas to cover the ground to make a softer landing for them, and for covering up worn areas under swings or slides. It’s probably best to make a wooden frame around the area and keep the bark in this.

Three types of bark available at RoLawn Direct

Rolawn Decorative Bark (1m³ Bulk Bag – 1,000 litres approx volume when packed) £114.40
Rolawn Decorative Bark is a quality, durable, golden brown deluxe ornamental pine bark. Its attractive appearance and shape make it ideal for beds and borders. Rolawn Decorative Bark can also be used as a mulch to inhibit weed development, improve moisture retention and act as insulation for plant roots, reducing plant loss in cold weather.

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RoLawn Direct have three types of bark for your garden. Ensure your borders stay weed free by giving them a really good weeding and then cover them with a layer of bark as a mulch around the plants. It keeps weeds down by and makes it easier for your plants to grow. Mulching with bark keeps the water in the soil too – which helps your plants get the start they need. Ideal for around winter bedding plants or existing shrubs. Your garden will look really good with bark on the beds!
Buying bark in bulk from rolawn is less effort than going along to the local garden centre and loading up the car with bags of bark. It gets delivered to your door and means you get better value for money too.
Play bark can be used on the areas where the kids have their swing and slides. It stops the mud churning up and keeps your garden neater!

Rolawn Decorative Bark (approx 1m³ when packed) £114.40
Rolawn Decorative Bark is a quality, durable, golden brown deluxe ornamental pine bark. Its attractive appearance and shape make it ideal for beds and borders. Rolawn Decorative Bark can also be used as a mulch to inhibit weed development, improve moisture retention and act as insulation for plant roots, reducing plant loss in cold weather.

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If youre planning your garden to be as busy as possible you’re trying for a cottage garden look.

There’s some plants you should enjoy in your garden and they’re ones available to buy at lots of shops!Cottage Garden Collection (Plants and Bulbs)

The first pack comprises 3 plants each of some great favourites: Campanula carpatica Blue, Aquilegia Hybrids, Red Hot Poker, Dianthus Flashing Light, Heliposis Summer Sun & Delphinium Hybrids. These great planbts create a range of colour, height and style. The red hot pokers are fantastic plants that are quite striking! The delphiniums and aquilegia are mixed colours and these great a great pattern of colour.

The adantages of hardy perrenials are they only need planting once, and will come back each year with fresh colours and foliage. Most will spread through the border too! Plants are usually planted in threes or fives, the odd number helps planting look more natural and less forced. Read instructions for distances to plant apart so they have plenty of room to grow.

Once you’ve planted a border up and watered it well you can put on a layer of bark to help retain water and keep the weeds down. Rolawn Direct sell bark in bulk delivered to your door making it easy to get great value for money too. See Rolawn Direct for bark where you can use code bark16 for a 15% discount and is valid until 31/07/09.

Applying bark is a great way of ensuring the border looks good until all the plants have spread out a bit. It adds a very professional look to your garden too.