Now that winter has moved into the Charlotte area, you may want to protect your sensitive garden plants from frost and freezing temperatures. While many plants are hardy and can easily survive a Carolina winter it may be a good idea to help certain less hardy species to make it through the cold months unhurt. [...]
Many fond childhood Christmas memories of mine involve Christmas cookies. My German grandmother would bake for days filling tins upon tins with a delicious assortment of baked goods. And what fun we had shaping cookies with different cookie cutters and later decorating them with my Mom?! Now that we have a child of our own [...]
This year we started a new holiday tradition that our taste buds will demand year after year from now on forward: smoking a turkey on the Big Green Egg. We smoked a turkey for Thanksgiving and will put another one on the Big Green Egg for Christmas. The meat was juicy and flavorful and the [...]
Blackhawk Hardware is your locally-owned, one-stop shop for stocking stuffers for the entire family. If your family members were good this year you'll surely want to skip the lumps of coal and fill their Christmas stockings with carefully picked gifts. As you may know, we pride ourselves to be more than a hardware store and [...]
You know what makes or breaks a well-designed Christmas tree? Lighting! When you spend hours carefully arranging your ornaments perfectly you'll want to be sure to set them into the perfect light. Match the theme of your Christmas tree, be it beautiful white lights for an elegant tree or colorful blinking lights for a whimsical [...]
In addition to the ornaments displayed in our Christmas Tree Forest, we have several shelves filled with gorgeous, hand-selected pieces. Our categories range from a huge baby's first Christmas selection to boy and girl favorites, cats, dogs, travel, sports, musical instruments, crosses, Hanukah ornaments, and a huge collection of collegiate ornaments. Save Save Save Save [...]
Our favorite time of the year is here and we are knee-deep in Christmas tinsel and ornaments to bring you the most beautiful Christmas trees of the Charlotte areas. We are known throughout the city for our elaborate Christmas Tree Forest and a tremendous assortment of elegant tree ornaments. The best about our Christmas Trees? [...]
Every November millions of Americans face the same struggle on Thanksgiving: They're running out of oven space. A very simple and flavor enhancing solution to this dilemma is right on your deck: Your Big Green Egg grill! Whether you are grilling your turkey on the Big Green Egg or use it to prepare sides, your [...]
The dining scene around Charlotte and our home at Park Road Shopping Center has truly grown up over the years and continues to deliver deliciousness. But what do you do between lunch and dinner served at Charlotte's finest eateries? Spoiled as our taste buds are they demand local culinary delights at snack time, too. Seeing [...]
Air plants, or tillandsia plants, are arguably some of the coolest plants out there and make great houseplants thanks to their low maintenance needs. As the name implies, air plants don't need soil to grow but rather use their roots to anchor themselves to a host like a tree in the wild or decorative items [...]
