Cool Springs Mulch & Stone

About Cool Springs Mulch & Stone

East of Statesville the land opens toward Cool Springs, hay fields on both shoulders of the road and the interstate humming somewhere past the treeline. Cool Springs Mulch & Stone works out that way and back into town, where a June week turns the ground the color of brick dust the minute the rain quits. There is a smell to a fresh bed — cut mulch, damp soil, clippings still on the blade — that tells you the yard has been handled. Mowing, trimming, edging, mulch spread flush to the border: plain work, and it holds the shape of a place all summer. The last move before pulling out is the blower down the drive, so nothing is left behind but the lines in the grass.