Landscaping with wood chips: 13 expert ways to use them in your yard

Often underrated, there are many brilliant ideas for landscaping with wood chips. Affordable, sustainable and easy to source, this amazing waste product of the timber industry is an attractive and speedy way to smarten up your outside space. 

With plenty of different grades, types of timber – each with their own characteristics – and even different tree bark to choose from, you can get creative with the surface you create as well as how and where you choose to use them as part of your landscaping.

Use wood chips to cover vast areas under trees, play equipment or as a quick fix to disguise a sun scorched patch of lawn. Alternatively take advantage of its insatiable appetite for suppressing stubborn weeds and spread it as a mulch under shrubs, trees or to create informal paths throughout your garden. 

A good layer of wood chips also excels at keeping in moisture – something invaluable in this ever-warming climate. Not only will it help reduce the hours you spend watering and the amount of water you use, but as they biodegrade the timber fibres will break down and enrich the soil with nutrients too. 

From creating a woodland seating area to making meandering paths and productive veg beds, there are endless ideas for landscaping with wood chips to inspire you.

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By Jill Morgan