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!

Hot Realestate

A warm hearth keeps the heart in your outdoor room all winter long. Whether you have an outdoor pavilion or a screened in porch a built in fire feature will put life in your outdoor room year round. Materials that blend into your existing home and landscape like stone, brick or tile can come together to create an outdoor space so you won’t want to come in out of the cold.

Life in the Winter Garden

Nature’s drama takes no intermission when you plant to attract wild birds in your winter garden. With colorful berries in your beds the song bird soirée never ends. Enjoy a parade of color and spunk as flocks of feathered friends bask in your garden décor. Deck your outdoor halls with seed feeders, snow catching shrubs, and woody branch perches and watch the spectacle unfold.

Shrubs, Trees and Grasses

 When you plan your plantings with MINT your landscaping will sparkle and shine all through the seasons. Evergreens don’t have to carry the show when you add other players to bring performance to your landscaping this winter. Fruit bearing shrubs like holly, bayberry, yew and chokeberry offer bright color and visual interest. Woody specimens like red twig dogwood and white birch bring stark contrast and drama to your design. Stand in awe of winter’s austere beauty and you’ll look forward to her spellbinding splendor every year

Iron Gardener

 Planters aren’t just for flowers anymore. Scrap those withered annuals and fill your pots with conifers like junipers and spruce. For more sensational plants choose fragrant herbs like rosemary, lavender or sage. Large containers for dwarf trees like Japanese maple or Japanese holly will help blend your home and garden room seamlessly. Your garden room will keep on bursting with style long after the blooms are gone.

Paradigm Shift

 Warm season landscaping is a pageant of foliage and flowers bursting with color and form but keeping the allure in a winter landscape requires a different aesthetic entirely. Instead of growth your winter scene is a play of texture and tonal contrast. Build your winter wonderland with bright berries and evergreen foliage, striking patterns in bark and branches, and soft plumes of delicate grass. MINT can get you the props to get props for your garden all year round.

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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!

Get Fit with MINT

Want to get in shape in a matter of hours? Our Full Service Landscape Maintenance customers not only enjoy our lawn trimming schedule but also seasonal services like bulb plantings, bed mulching, shrub pruning and bed debris removal. You will be trim and fit in no time. Get in the loop ,call MINT today 704-896-3009!

Winterizing Your Décor

Don’t let your style go to seed this winter in your outdoor room. Utilize fall’s mild temps to revitalize your wood surfaces with repairs, cleaning, staining and painting. Artful arrangements in dried flowers, weathered wood or stone can cozy up your porch or patio with easy style. We can pair you with outdoor accessories cool enough for a winter wonderland.

Gems in your Winter Landscaping

While trees and shrubs serve to frame your winter scenes nothing brings refinement and beauty to your winter landscaping like the soft swaying fronds of ornamental grasses. The indomitable plume grass is replete in bold elegance and style that promises to grace your grounds with presiding beauty through the cool season months.

Contain and Conquer

 Container boxwood or ivy topiaries, aromatic evergreen wreathes and twinkling glass luminaries can bring charm and vivacity to your cool season outdoor space. And don’t forget ornamental winter vegetables like Chinese cabbage, kale, chard, or beets. Your container garden will thrive in good looks and elegance year round when you partner with MINT and The Elements 4 Life to outfit your outdoor spaces.