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Who says the areas around your home have to be carpeted in lawn or dotted with flowers? In P. Allen Smith's Garden Home, garden design expert P. Allen Smith leads novice and experienced gardeners through the steps for fashioning garden rooms used for separate functions such as dining, entertaining, relaxing or playing. In each half hour episode, you’ll recognize how to use the key elements of design to create areas for relaxing after a busy day, places for friends and family to gather or offer sanctuary to plants and wildlife. P. Allen travels throughout the country and Europe, touring gardens of all sizes and descriptions, and shows you how to successfully adapt these ideas to your own yard.
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FRI, JUL 30 | |
| Structure | • 10:00 AM • 04:00 PM • 10:00 PM |
SAT, JUL 31 | |
| Kitchen Garden | • 07:00 AM • 01:00 PM • 07:00 PM |
| Outdoor Kitchen | • 10:30 AM • 04:30 PM • 10:30 PM |
| Structure | • 04:00 AM |
SUN, AUG 1 | |
| Color | • 10:00 AM • 04:00 PM • 10:00 PM |
| Kitchen Garden | • 01:00 AM |
| Outdoor Kitchen | • 04:30 AM |
MON, AUG 2 | |
| Color | • 04:00 AM |
FRI, AUG 6 | |
| Texture, Pattern and Rhythm | • 10:00 AM • 04:00 PM • 10:00 PM |
SAT, AUG 7 | |
| Texture, Pattern and Rhythm | • 04:00 AM |
SUN, AUG 8 | |
| Abundance | • 10:00 AM • 04:00 PM • 10:00 PM |
MON, AUG 9 | |
| Abundance | • 04:00 AM |
FRI, AUG 13 | |
| Whimsy | • 10:00 AM • 04:00 PM • 10:00 PM |
SAT, AUG 14 | |
| Fruits and Berries | • 07:30 AM • 01:30 PM • 07:30 PM |
| Whimsy | • 04:00 AM |
SUN, AUG 15 | |
| Fruits and Berries | • 01:30 AM |
| Mystery | • 10:00 AM • 04:00 PM • 10:00 PM |
MON, AUG 16 | |
| Mystery | • 04:00 AM |
FRI, AUG 20 | |
| Time | • 10:00 AM • 04:00 PM • 10:00 PM |
SAT, AUG 21 | |
| Time | • 04:00 AM |
SUN, AUG 22 | |
| Garden Ornaments | • 10:00 AM • 04:00 PM • 10:00 PM |
MON, AUG 23 | |
| Garden Ornaments | • 04:00 AM |
FRI, AUG 27 | |
| Spring Bulbs | • 10:00 AM • 04:00 PM • 10:00 PM |
SAT, AUG 28 | |
| Kids in the Garden | • 07:00 AM • 01:00 PM • 07:00 PM |
| Spring Bulbs | • 04:00 AM |
SUN, AUG 29 | |
| Artist Garden | • 10:00 AM • 04:00 PM • 10:00 PM |
| Kids in the Garden | • 01:00 AM |
MON, AUG 30 | |
| Artist Garden | • 04:00 AM |
P. Allen Smith
An award-winning garden designer and host of P. Allen Smith’s Garden Home, Allen has emerged as America’s most recognized garden design expert, providing ideas and inspiration for novice and expert gardeners alike.
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Coloring Your Garden Home #202 It's a great winter escape to get you ready for daffodils and other spring time beauties. Gardening expert P. Allen Smith explores color in design in this show, which revolves around a beautiful Georgia garden that he has worked on over many years. |
Roses #203 Right now the garden may be asleep but in just a few short months roses will be in bloom. Inside the garden home of designer P. Allen Smith you'll find over 40 varieties of roses. Allen takes us on a tour of his garden and shows us how he has incorporated roses into his design. You'll walk away inspired to plant roses in your garden home. |
A French Country Garden #204 This show is a great way to pass time on a cold winter day with its warm colors and Mediterranean feel. You'll feel like you're in the French countryside when gardening expert P. Allen Smith takes you on a tour of a garden home he designed. We'll learn about growing lavender and get some excellent tips on containers and creating privacy in our own garden spaces. |
Beautiful Garden Rooms #205 If you look out your window this cold winter day and think, "I can't garden-- I don't have enough space," then you should spend a half hour with us as we look at small space gardens. Join gardening expert P. Allen Smith as he shares this quaint garden he designed for a couple seeking to beautify the entry to their charming Tudor style home. It invites the outdoors in and at the same time is a garden that is easy to maintain. |
Simple Garden Home Ideas #206 Are you surrounded by neighbors and long to create a private garden sanctuary? Discover some simple and effective ways to fashion intimate and private outdoor spaces, even in a suburban setting. P. Allen Smith demonstrates how well placed plantings can create beautiful screens from nearby distractions. |
Garden Home Structures #207 Travel with garden expert P. Allen Smith to picturesque Germany and explore how the principles of beautiful garden design are truly international. Tour several beautiful German gardens to find inspiring ideas for your own backyard. |
Garden Home Containers #208 As you flip through those gardening magazines this winter, don't forget to take a look at plants that are just right for containers. You'll want to start your list for spring ordering after you see the hanging baskets and window boxes that are key features in this show on container gardening. In Germany, garden designer P. Allen Smith shows us how to get the look of old world charm in the containers we make for our American gardens. |
A Modern Twist #209 Tour a contemporary style riverside garden home for some inspiring ideas on how to create a garden to complement a modern design. Then visit a lakeside garden and meet the designers whose love of daylilies and the South Pacific influenced the creation of their own personal tropical paradise. |
Small Garden Homes #210 Garden designer P. Allen Smith explores quaint garden spaces in Europe as well as several of the gardens he fashioned here in the States for some inspiring ideas on how to make the most of small areas. Allen offers creative tips to visually enlarge pint-sized places with effective use of color, forced perspective and perfectly scaled plants. |
Old Fashioned Favorites #211 You're winter inspirations could become a reality next spring and summer. When it comes to annuals, perennials and shrubs there are some old fashioned favorites that stand out to garden designer P. Allen Smith. Allen explores these favorites and ways to used them in our garden homes. Maybe you have some of these plants in your garden home-- or maybe this winter is the right time to think about planting a few of these next year. |
Garden Home Art #212 Finding just the right embellishments for your garden might seem like a challenge. Join garden expert P. Allen Smith as he finds interesting ornaments, containers, trellis and other unique items to add style to any garden. |
Choosing Color for Our Garden Homes #213 Inspired by grand and historic English gardens, garden expert P. Allen Smith shows how to create a memorable garden full of vivid color. Allen illustrates ways to alter the mood and scale of a garden with various color schemes. |
Structure in the Garden Home #301 Filmed in a charming small garden, complete with raised vegetable beds, gardening expert P. Allen Smith shows how compact spaces accented with garden structures create beautiful features in a garden home. Allen also shares some practical tips for planting vegetables, improving the soil, and how to tackle common garden pest problems with earth friendly solutions such as attracting beneficial insects. For even more ideas, Allen tours gardens in Holland and California. |
Garden Home Seasons #302 Visit P. Allen Smith's own beautiful garden home to pick up some tips on using the design elements of color, structure, and time to add seasonal interest to your landscape. Allen also demonstrates ways to expand your garden's growing season in the spring and fall and how to create stunning garden containers for year round beauty. |
Seasons of Change #303 Tour a beautiful New England saltbox style home and garden at the peak of autumn's color to see how this woodland garden's charm evolves through the growing seasons. Allen shows how touches of whimsy add to the magic of the landscape's character along with a project so you can add a fanciful accent to your garden by turning a teacup into a bird feeder. |
Garden Home Enclosures #304 Discover the difference a sense of enclosure makes in creating rooms within a garden home. Gardening expert P. Allen Smith provides several examples to show you how employing this design technique transforms an ordinary yard into a series of intimate garden settings, each with their own unique character. As an extra treat, travel to the Chicago Botanic Garden where a bonsai expert offers tips on creating a fall topiary. |
Healthy Garden Homes #305 Creating family friendly outdoor spaces is the goal of the garden home concept, which is why gardening expert P. Allen Smith encourages gardeners to use earth friendly gardening methods. Follow along as Allen talks with two California organic farming experts who offer ideas that you can use in your own garden. Then learn how to make a salad pot, a fun way to grow a salad garden in a container. |
Beautiful Shapes and Forms #306 Explore how shapes and forms of plants play a role in defining the style of a garden. Travel to Holland, where gardening expert P. Allen Smith visits a flower growing field to see how the fashionable calla lily, long admired for its sleek and slender shape popularized in Art Deco objects d'art is an example of this idea. While in The Netherlands, Allen also stops by to visit with world famous Dutch landscape architect Piet Oudolf, best know for his free form designs using ornamental grasses. |
Architecture and the Garden Home #307 The architecture of the buildings and structures in a garden has a tremendous impact on its style. Gardening expert P. Allen Smith shows how to evaluate the architectural style of our home to use as inspiration in the garden. We'll also meet a Dutch landscape architect who came up with a creative way to overcome a problem view in a small garden home. |
Urban Design Ideas #308 Gardening expert P. Allen Smith demonstrates how you can creatively borrow ideas for your home garden from a variety of urban landscapes. First travel to Chicago where landscape architect Douglas Hoerr describes the designs his firm has created using innovative use of unusual plant combinations on Chicago's "Magnificent Mile," followed by tour of an energy saving rooftop garden on Chicago's city hall. Then feel the restorative powers of a healing garden that Allen designed for a hospital, offering a restful sanctuary for both patients and hospital employees. |
Mysterious Gardens #309 A mysterious blue spring bubbling up from the ground in Georgia and an Italian inspired grotto in California are just a few of the tantalizing features of the garden homes visited in this show. Garden designer P. Allen Smith offers great ideas for adding mystery to our gardens with winding paths, moss covered stones, and interesting plant choices. Allen even has a bit of fun by showing us how to use pumpkins as planters as a fall accent. |
Sun and Shade in the Garden Home #310 Gardeners, both novice and experienced, seem to ask this same question-what should I plant in full sun and deep shade? Gardening expert P. Allen Smith shows us how to make even these challenging areas of our garden homes come alive with beautiful plants. For more innovative ideas, Allen visits with a Dutch horticulturist about the use of bamboo, and visits a dahlia farm to learn about new improvements to these classic flowering favorites. |
From The Outside In #311 Gardening expert P. Allen Smith believes that gardens should be both beautiful and useful. In this show, Allen offers inspiring ideas for bringing the bounty of the garden indoors. He travels to New York to visit with a chef whose southern upbringing has him serving up garden fresh home cooking in Harlem. Then he visits one of the world's leading potpourri manufacturers to see how the addition of flowers and other natural materials brings a touch of the garden to their products. Allen also shares tips on easy ways to create a fresh flower arrangement. |
New and Improved #312 Gardening expert P. Allen Smith reveals how some classic garden plants are getting "extreme makeovers" by plant breeders. Travel to Germany for a behind-the-scenes look at the work that goes into updating the look of geraniums. Then learn why bigger is better when it comes to the blossoms of shade loving impatiens. Tour plant farms in Holland to see how Dutch farmers are growing millions of garden plants for American gardens and meet a grower who has an interesting bulb for Allen to try in his own garden. |
Someone's in the Kitchen #313 Someone's in the kitchen with... Allen? Gardening expert P. Allen Smith brings us garden fresh recipes for every season as he talks with chefs about how they bring the bounty of the garden into their kitchens. These easy recipes will inspire you to plant herbs, tomatoes and more in your garden home. Allen brings tips on creating seasonal centerpieces to bring the beauty of the garden to your table. |
Garden Ornaments #401 Garden ornaments aren't just for the garden as designer. P.Allen takes us to the famous Antiques and Garden show in Nashville, a historic pottery shop in Hot Springs National Park, and speaks with an interior designer and collectors of garden ornaments for ideas on using these objects both inside and out. |
Spring Bulbs #402 P. Allen profiles spring bulbs from his garden. He speaks with a bulb expert who shows interesting ways to incorporate bulbs into your garden home. This episode exhibits beautiful images from travels around The Netherlands. |
Artist Garden #403 P. Allen takes an artistic look at the garden home with a special visit to an artist's home and garden. See how master gardeners across the country bring art to the communities they serve and how a Mexican artist, Dionicio Rodriquez (1891-1955) helped to bring rustic charm to The Old Mill, the only remaining structure from the film "Gone with the Wind." |
Vertical Garden #404 With creative thinking, a blank space can become an attractive addition to the garden home. P. Allen speaks with the horticulturist at the grand grounds of the Biltmore Estate in Asheville, North Carolina and tours its beautiful walled gardens. |
Perennials for the Garden Home #405 Everyone loves perennial plants because they come back year after year. P. Allen shows you how to use perennials as a foundation for your plantings and then ways to add in bulbs and annuals for tremendous effects. |
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