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University of California-Santa Barbara, California's Landscape Supply Company

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Complete Your University of California-Santa Barbara Outdoor Project

We’ve got you covered with our full line of landscape supply products, from premium mulch and quality soil to decorative stone, helping you create a cohesive, professional landscape that enhances your property for years to come.

Mulch Mound Pro Tip

Wind near UCSB is relentless off the Pacific, and fine bark blows out of beds within weeks. Choose a coarse chip or gravel mulch in exposed locations, then establish a windbreak of salt tolerant coyote brush or lemonade berry on the seaward edge. Young plantings do best staked low and loose so stems can flex and thicken naturally.

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Mulch Mound Pro Tip

Sandy soil around UCSB drains so quickly that new plantings often fail from drought rather than overwatering. Build a shallow basin around each plant, water deeply and infrequently to push roots downward, and mulch the basin to slow evaporation. Two long soaks a week in the first summer beats daily sprinkling, which only wets the top inch and keeps roots shallow and vulnerable.

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Mulch Mound Pro Tip

Reclaimed and slightly brackish irrigation water is common near the UCSB area, and salts build up fast in sandy loam with only eighteen inches of annual rain to flush them. Apply one deep leaching irrigation every couple of months to move salts below the root zone, add gypsum where crusting appears, and favor plants that shrug off salinity.

Frequently Asked Questions

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What mulch holds up best in constant coastal wind?

Coarse arbor chips, three quarter inch crushed gravel, and cobble all stay put where fine bark and shredded material blow away. In exposed beds near UCSB, go with a chip sized at least an inch across, apply three inches deep, and water it in once so the pieces knit together and settle.

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Which plants tolerate salt spray in this part of the coast?

Lemonade berry, coyote brush, coast buckwheat, seaside daisy, rosemary, and myoporum all handle direct salt exposure well. Use them as the outer defensive layer, then place less tolerant species behind that screen. Rinsing foliage with fresh water after strong onshore winds further reduces leaf burn.

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How deep should mulch be around new plantings?

Aim for three inches across the bed but taper to nothing right at each plant stem. Mulch touching stems or trunks traps moisture and invites rot. For young natives, keep a two to three inch bare collar around the base and extend the mulch outward to the edge of the root zone.

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The UCSB campus sits on an exposed coastal shelf where salt spray, wind, and thin sandy soil test every planting bed. Departmental grounds crews, research plots, and nearby faculty housing all draw on bulk soil amendments and mulch. Deliveries here run on a schedule that respects academic calendars and service road limits. We handle the logistics so material arrives at the right lot, not the wrong end of campus.

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