P. Allen Smith’s Garden Home (1)
P. Allen Smith’s Garden Home
1 / TV-GLocated in the historic Quapaw Quarter of Little Rock, Arkansas, the original Garden Home is a 1904 Colonial Revival cottage surrounded by a series of garden rooms designed by Smith.This garden was created to illustrate his 12 principles of design, the basis of his first book in the Garden Home series.
Seasons & Episode
Twin Oaks Bed & Breakfast and historic Revenna House in Natchez, Miss.; making a basement cozy; roasting s'mores indoors; Garden Home Challenge preview.
Decorating flower vases; garden ornaments; Tower Grove Park in St. Louis; the Monet Garden in Chicago; Bernice Gardens in Little Rock, Ark.
Growing tulips; using bold colors to make an impact on a garden room; harmonizing color with summer flowering bulbs; Kauffman Memorial Garden in Kansas City, Mo.
An outdoor living space serves as a sitting and dining area; planting hostas in the shade; identifying poison ivy; raising goats in the city; creative chicken coop.
A tour of Monticello, Thomas Jefferson's home in Charlottesville, Va.; Longwood Mansion, the largest octagonal house in the U.S.; the home of architect Frank Lloyd Wright; making terra cotta look vintage.
Making flowers turn a different color; mosaics with rocks and homemade salt dough; birdbath; Children's Garden at the Garfield Park Conservatory in Chicago; Deanna Rose Children's Farmstead in Kansas.
Bell Garden in St. Louis; water garden at Powell Gardens in Kansas City, Mo.; children pick daffodils at Moss Mountain Farm; adopt-a-cat program.
Projects using broken terra cotta saucers; turning bulbs into party favors; lighting a garden path with recycled Christmas lights and home fixtures; eco-garden.
Maintaining a perfect lawn; summer foliage at Moss Mountain Farm; designing with summer flowering bulbs; growing dahlias; Grant Park in Chicago.
Landscaping surrounding Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art; orchard at Monticello, Thomas Jefferson's home in Charlottesville, Va.; maintaining Kieffer pear trees; planting marigolds.
Using fresh greenery inside the home; cinnamon pinecones and holiday luminaries.
Changing seasonal decor from fall to winter; attracting birds to the yard in winter; getting a garden ready for spring.
Located in the historic Quapaw Quarter of Little Rock, Arkansas, the original Garden Home is a 1904 Colonial Revival cottage surrounded by a series of garden rooms designed by Smith.This garden was created to illustrate his 12 principles of design, the basis of his first book in the Garden Home series.