On this episode of Garden Home, host P. Allen Smith celebrates the summer season with a visit to the groundskeeper at Busch Stadium in St. Louis, Missouri, who shows us how to maintain a perfect lawn. Back home, Allen showcases the new summer foliage at Moss Mountain Farm, shares design tips using summer flowering bulbs, and how to grow beautiful dahlias. On the road again, Allen visits Grant Park in Chicago, where an urban beautification program is underway, where perfume is made from the oil of locally grown flowers. Allen shares the latest progress on the Garden Home Challenge.
Topics Include
Chicago Urban Garden used for making Fragances
Flower arrangement with floral frogs
Summer Foliage Plants
Planting Foliage Bulbs
Busch Stadium in St. Louis Lawn Care
Growing Dahlias
Planting Summer Bulbs with color echos
Garden Challenge
Eco-friendly home building
Virtual Garden Makeover
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P. Allen Smith is a landscape and garden designer, horticulturist, preservationist and television host. His passions span the subjects of community, health, sustainability and history. He has designed the grounds at many of the nation’s most notable estate properties, townhomes, and commercial complexes. And, for over 19 years, he has shared his green knowledge and insight with the public via ABC, NBC, CBS, Fox, his own PBS television, and six book titles. Currently, Allen is focused on residential, commercial and community designs that are beautiful, improve our contentedness, and our social and physical health.
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….retaining Allen’s Garden and Landscape design firm, see www.pallensmithandassociates.com/
…Allen’s Garden Home-inspired intergenerational community in Monroe, LA, see www.gardensofsomerset.com/
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