Jungle Mulch
Richer, finer, and built for high-organic beds.
Jungle Mulch is recycled crushed green waste with forest bark, peat and composted organics through it. The peat and the green waste make it richer and finer than a bark mulch, which suits plantings that want high organic matter and humidity around the roots.
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Real stock, not a swatch. Blended products vary a little batch to batch, so treat these as a guide rather than an exact colour match.
Jungle Mulch details
Jungle Mulch at a glance
- Product type
- Composted recycled mulch
- Made from
- Crushed green waste, forest bark, peat, composted organics
- Texture
- Finer than Forest Floor
- Suits
- High-organic, humidity-loving plantings
- Application depth
- 50 to 75mm
- Sold as
- Loose by the cubic metre, bulka bag, trailer load
What Jungle Mulch suits
What can you use Jungle Mulch for?
Humidity-loving plantings
Ferns, subtropicals and anything that sulks when the air and the soil dry out. The blend holds moisture at the surface where those plants feel it.
Beds you want built up with organic matter
It is a composted blend, so it is already breaking down into the top of the soil. On Perth sand that is the layer doing the most good.
Mixed ornamental beds
The finer texture sits better around small plants than a coarse chip does, so it suits a planted bed rather than a tree surround.
Wildflower and informal areas
It looks like ground rather than like a product, which is what an informal planting wants. A uniform screened bark reads as landscaping.
How much Jungle Mulch
How much Jungle Mulch do you need?
Length by width by depth, all in metres, gives you cubic metres. For a bed 4m by 1.2m filled to 75mm, that is 4 × 1.2 × 0.075 = 0.36 m³.
It is an estimate. Uneven ground and how firmly the mix settles both change what you actually use, so round up rather than down. We have not published a recommended depth for this product — describe the bed at the counter and someone who works with it every day will tell you.
Whatever you work out here lands in the enquiry form below, already written down.
That is about one trailer load. Order a touch over rather than under — a second trip costs more than the extra scoop.
Why Jungle Mulch
Why choose Jungle Mulch?
It holds moisture better than a bark
The peat and composted organics in it hold far more water for their weight than bark does, so the surface stays damp between waterings instead of drying out by mid-morning.
It supports soil biology
A moist, high-organic layer is where the microbes and fungi live. That is a genuine difference between a composted blend and an inert woody covering.
Finer texture, easier around small plants
You can work it in close to a planting without the chunkiness of a chip, which matters in a bed of perennials rather than under a tree.
Recycled green waste
The bulk of it is material that would otherwise be waste, crushed and composted rather than tipped.
Getting Jungle Mulch home
How to get Jungle Mulch
Collect from the yard
Open seven days at 222 Barrington St, Bibra Lake. The loader puts it straight into your trailer or ute, and someone will tell you whether what you have brought will carry the load.
Borrow one of our trailers free for two hours to get your load home. No charge, no bond.
Have it delivered
Across Perth's southern suburbs, seven days. For a quote we need the address, how much you need, and anything awkward about access — tight driveways, low branches and side access all change which truck we send. Confirm the current cost when you order.
Formats
- Loose, by the cubic metre
- Bulka bag, roughly a cubic metre each
- Trailer load, including our free two hour trailer
Using Jungle Mulch
How to use Jungle Mulch
Work out the volume
Length by width by depth, in metres, gives you cubic metres. The calculator below does it, and rounding up beats a second trip.
Clear the bed and wet it through
Pull the weeds — mulch stops seed germinating, it does not kill what is growing — and water the soil properly before you cover it.
Spread 50 to 75mm
Even coverage at that depth is what blocks light to weed seed. Because this one is finer, it settles into a denser layer than a chip would at the same depth.
Keep it off the stems
Leave a clear ring at the base of every plant. A moisture-holding mulch held against a stem is the worst version of that mistake.
When to choose something else
When it is the wrong product
- The moisture it holds is a drawback for anything that wants to dry out between waterings. Mediterranean plants, succulents and most WA natives would rather have a coarse bark than a damp organic layer against them.
- It is a recycled blend, so the mix varies a little between batches. Normal for composted green waste, worth knowing if you are matching an existing bed exactly.
- It is not a decorative coloured mulch and it will grey off over a Perth summer. If holding a colour is the point, that is what the colour-injected mulches are for.
- It breaks down faster than bark or wood chips, which is the price of it doing more for the soil. Expect to top it up.
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Goes with Jungle Mulch
Other products you may need
The other composted recycled mulches
Same family, different texture and different plantings.
For natives instead
Most WA natives want a coarse bark rather than a damp organic layer.
Building the bed underneath
A mulch works on the surface. These go into the profile.
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Jungle Mulch quote
Need Jungle Mulch for your project?
Send us the quantity you need, your suburb, and whether you would like to collect it or have it delivered. If you are not sure how much, put your measurements into the calculator above and we will check it for you.
Or ring the yard on (08) 9434 2290
222 Barrington St, Bibra Lake WA 6163 · Open 7 days
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