Green News

 Welcome to The MINT Leaf, Lake Norman's premier landscaping design company's news letter. We are Morris, Irrigation, Nature and Turf- MINT. Our ambition is to bring our savvy and skill to life around your home, leaving you with a little piece of heaven on earth. Our creative design and personal service are extended to all, from luxury homes to country cottages, from service organizations to business campuses. We are experts in a large list of greenscapes and hardscapes and we want to give you an insight into just what we can do for your family home as well as pass along our enthusiasm for turning dirt into decor!

Plan for Growth

Set your landscaping up for success when your plan provides to make the best use of the water and soil conditions on your grounds. Before planting consider an area’s sun and shade conditions, wind exposure and soil type. Place plantings at sites where they are sure to thrive by understanding their particular environmental needs such as disease hardiness, root conditions, and growth rate. Also, be aware of your plantings prospective shape, size and texture upon maturity to achieve the perfect pairing of terra and flora for your personal paradise. Need a helping hand? Call the landscaping match makers at MINT and your landscape will thrive happily ever after.

Rock Your World

 An outdoor patio can open up a world of options for your outdoor spaces. Whether you need a party place for grillin' and games or a quiet, tranquil retreat it all starts with a paver. Get yours in stone, concrete, slate or slab. The experts at MINT can give you just the right hardscape for your garden retreat!

Music for the Eyes

A symphony of color is on its way as autumn draws near. Adding fall flowers and plants to your beds will create a perfect harmony in your landscape this fall. Chrysanthemums, pansies, ornamental cabbages and dusty miller are a few frost hardy options that will keep on singing with color well into the season. MINT’s full maintenance service guarantees your beds will look great all year long. This season the maestros at MINT can orchestrate your plantings to join in nature’s celebration in color as the crescendo of fall builds. Call today and you won’t miss a beat with MINT.

Dial up the Style

Creating an outdoor room can get you nearer to nature’s tranquil beauty as well as increase your home’s living space.  When you have established the perfect location consider pulling together elements that will tie your indoor space to your outdoor space. If you are decking out a posh porch or patio use flooring that blends or matches with your home’s interior to create a seamless transition between the adjoining rooms. Do your million dollar views demand a detached outdoor room such as a landscaped area or gazebo? Establish an inviting pathway with hardscapes and planting elements to stylistically link your home and garden retreat. For best results call today and you’ll be relaxing in style tomorrow!

Social Living

Your friends at The Elements 4 Life would like to invite you to enjoy all our community events this summer from in store gatherings featuring our charming new wares and beautiful new show rooms to the Woodland Discovery children’s camps we host on our grounds throughout the summer months. We are so excited to share our love of all things green and look forward to becoming your partner in pastoral panache inside and out. Find us on the web for dish and details for the socially conscience green enthusiast in you at www.theelements4life.com and at The Elements 4 Life page on Facebook.

Easy Pay

VISA & MASTERCARD

For your convenience we are now accepting VISA and MASTERCARD!  You can pay directly on-line or call the office and we will take care of it for you!

Win Big!

Creating an outdoor room is a breeze when you have MINT on your team. Any good game plan starts with a goal. So when deciding where to put a room with a view go where the views are! Whether your outdoor room is a screened in porch, gazebo, or a landscaped area with seating a top notch view of the great outdoors is first on the list. Are you a griller, entertainer, couch potato? After claiming your ground, define your space according to your needs and choose furniture and accessories to suit from The Elements 4 Life. Score big with an outdoor room on your home turf when you put us into play building your field of dreams!

Camp Cool

Don’t settle for dreary winter blah in the garden you can enjoy your landscaping in the cool months just as much as you do in the spring and summer. Fall can’t be beat as the finest growing season while winter offers ripe opportunities for transplanting those dormant trees and shrubs. MINT can help you jazz it up even further with exquisite evergreens, lively ground covers and specimen trees for garden variety and interest. Provide hours of family fun with a built in fireplace courtesy of MINT and enjoy camping around a warm outdoor fire on cold winter evenings.

New Material

 Ornamental grasses are lovely fall and winter focal plants in your landscaping. When leaves fall and warm weather ground cover diminishes grasses retain their mass and symmetry with grace and elegance not over powering but providing a gentle giant presence perfectly blending among the more demure winter ornaments in the garden. If girth is not your goal miniature specimens can present as sweet boarder plantings or accent s. With so many varieties to choose from among our specimens at MINT you are sure to find something beautiful for your cool season garden.

Basic Elements

Don’t settle for dreary winter blah in the garden you can enjoy your landscaping in the cool months just as much as you do in the spring and summer. Fall can’t be beat as the finest growing season while winter offers ripe opportunities for transplanting those dormant trees and shrubs. MINT can help you jazz it up even further with exquisite evergreens, lively ground covers and specimen trees for garden variety and interest. Provide hours of family fun with a built in fireplace courtesy of MINT and enjoy camping around a warm outdoor fire on cold winter evenings.