American Soil & Mulch

I’ve been here a few times now. They have a good selection of natural and colored, or dyed, mulches.
I prefer the dyed stuff b/​c it retains the color for multiple seasons — that’s right, more than 1 year easy — and it’s more uniform looking.
You drive up, pay for your mulch, drive out back, and watch the loader drop a bucket or two in your truck while your 2 year old daughter screams in delight.
We got the equivalent of 3 truck loads (full size ¼ ton F-​150), but the guy running the loader convinced us we could fit 2 buckets (2 cubic yards) in one go. That saved us a round trip. A nice way of helping your customer by just giving them what they ask for, but what they need.
They were also running a 10%, so I was getting it at about $ 30 a bucket. By ‘bucket’ I mean the big bulldozer like scoop they use to load your truck :)
The only inconvenience for this place is if you’re coming from Cary/​Apex on 55, you got to head past the place, make a U-​turn and come back down the highway. Not a big deal really. Just look to turn right past the Cary water tower.