Comments on: Save the Gulf Coast! Rewrite This Sign http://waterwordsthatwork.com/2008/04/14/environmental-writing-article/ Make a splash with your communications! Environmental writing and photography advice and consulting Wed, 10 Mar 2010 17:55:12 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Lori http://waterwordsthatwork.com/2008/04/14/environmental-writing-article/comment-page-1/#comment-3582 Lori Mon, 14 Apr 2008 19:42:08 +0000 http://waterwordsthatwork.com/2008/04/14/save-the-gulf-coast-rewrite-this-sign/#comment-3582 The myth about cypress mulch is that it won't rot and has an insect deterring quality. However, it has to be old growth age before the anti-rot/insect resin builds up to this point in the heartwood. And who can justify grinding up an old growth being to mulch a landscape shrub!? How about these sign rewrites: Save Our Cypress Use pine straw mulch instead OR Save Our Cypress Trees They hold our soil in place OR Cypress trees buffer hurricanes Stop using cypress mulch! The myth about cypress mulch is that it won’t rot and has an insect deterring quality. However, it has to be old growth age before the anti-rot/insect resin builds up to this point in the heartwood. And who can justify grinding up an old growth being to mulch a landscape shrub!?

How about these sign rewrites:

Save Our Cypress
Use pine straw mulch instead
OR
Save Our Cypress Trees
They hold our soil in place
OR
Cypress trees buffer hurricanes
Stop using cypress mulch!

]]> By: Julia Hyman http://waterwordsthatwork.com/2008/04/14/environmental-writing-article/comment-page-1/#comment-3581 Julia Hyman Mon, 14 Apr 2008 15:06:40 +0000 http://waterwordsthatwork.com/2008/04/14/save-the-gulf-coast-rewrite-this-sign/#comment-3581 Kelly- Supposedly cypress mulch doesn't float away when it rains. This is the only advantage I have ever heard of. I think most people just don't know what they are buying. Kelly-
Supposedly cypress mulch doesn’t float away when it rains. This is the only advantage I have ever heard of. I think most people just don’t know what they are buying.

]]> By: Laura Chern http://waterwordsthatwork.com/2008/04/14/environmental-writing-article/comment-page-1/#comment-3580 Laura Chern Mon, 14 Apr 2008 13:44:48 +0000 http://waterwordsthatwork.com/2008/04/14/save-the-gulf-coast-rewrite-this-sign/#comment-3580 Help Save our Coast! (Don't buy Gulf Coast Cypress Mulch) Help Save our Coast!
(Don’t buy Gulf Coast Cypress Mulch)

]]> By: Kelly http://waterwordsthatwork.com/2008/04/14/environmental-writing-article/comment-page-1/#comment-3579 Kelly Mon, 14 Apr 2008 13:00:53 +0000 http://waterwordsthatwork.com/2008/04/14/save-the-gulf-coast-rewrite-this-sign/#comment-3579 I'm curious...why cypress? What makes it such a good mulch, as opposed to some of the 'non-native' species that are making themselves to home here? Is there some physical or chemical property of cypress that makes it a great mulch? I’m curious…why cypress? What makes it such a good mulch, as opposed to some of the ‘non-native’ species that are making themselves to home here? Is there some physical or chemical property of cypress that makes it a great mulch?

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