We're known as the best place in Charlotte for houseplants for a reason, our garden center is stocked with indoor plants that not only help purify air but also make great decorative elements in any room. Air Purification In the 1980s NASA conducted a study (read it here) to explore if common houseplants are improving [...]
It's that time of year and even though we're used to somewhat mild winter days here in the Carolinas, winter storms are not unusual for the Charlotte area. Remember the that storm pretty effectively shut down most of Charlotte two years ago? Many driveways and sidewalk sections in our Dilworth neighborhood were still snow and [...]
True to the phrase 'out with the old and in with the new', Benjamin Moore has selected an on-trend color of the year for 2017 that could not have been any more different from 2016's if it tried. If you remember our post from last year, the company had chosen a timeless white, Simply White, [...]
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? [...]
