Garden mulch is used by home owners, local Councils, Waka Kotahi, schools and corporates to enhance the
aesthetics of garden areas, suppress weeds, modify soil temperature and retain moisture.

Garden mulch does not last forever, as over time it loses its colour and eventually rots, thus it must be topped up, and hence provides significant repeat business for the garden centres with sell the product.

Topping up garden mulch every 2 years or so, is not an unusual scenario, as old mulch progressively becomes degraded, especially due to fading in sunlight.

As an alternative and cost effective solution, mulch can be recoloured and
aesthetically reinvigorated, using dye applied via a garden sprayer.  Re-dying mulch is easier and lower cost
compared to adding more new mulch.  Dying mulch every two years (for instance) extends the life of the mulch, so that the initiator for adding additional mulch then becomes the slow process of the
mulch rotting, with the replenishment interval pushed out to around five years or more.

Of course you do not only have to dye mulch back to the origional colour. With a modern trend being black mulch, this dye can be utilsed to transform faded natural coloured mulch to achieve a bold new look.