P. Allen Smith's Garden Home Season XI

Little Rock, AR—This spring, acclaimed designer and lifestyle expert P. Allen Smith celebrates the 11th season of his popular series P. Allen Smith's Garden Home with 13 brand-new High-Definition episodes.

This season, Allen takes viewers on another entertaining voyage of discovery as he crisscrosses the country from the Pacific Northwest to our nation's capital. Allen makes garden stops in Chicago, visits the two farm estates of our most prominent founding fathers and stops by a garden spot in Kentucky.  Allen circles back to his home state of Arkansas, where he discusses topics near and dear to his heart. Surprisingly enough, Allen also has a swinging good time on a zip line in the northwest corner of the state.

Viewers this season will revel in the delights of butterfly gardening, the romance of roses, the magic of flower bulbs, and the allure of orchids. Be there when Allen collects bountiful berry harvests, talks about elegant indoor lighting and demystifies many more topics.

Each episode features one of Allen's 12 key principles of design, along with practical tips to help viewers translate the ideas to indoor and outdoor living spaces of every shape and size. Plus, P. Allen Smith's Garden Home continues to offer the how-to projects, garden maintenance tips, cooking features and popular virtual makeover segments that viewers look to for inspiration.

"I am so thrilled that we are celebrating the second decade of the show," Allen says. "This season we will delve deeper and peel back the next layer of the Garden Home onion with episodes on what to do indoors and outdoors.  We'll show viewers how to decorate during the winter holidays as well as give pointers on conducting home energy efficiency audits. Our passion for poultry continues as you learn why our chickens don't even have to cross the road to get to their new poultry shelter. We will be featuring episodes on gardening with kids in mind and speaking of kids, another show features a special visit from a reality show family with 19 kids who are as wild about bulbs as I am."

The eleventh season of P. Allen Smith's Garden Home continues to build on the show's popularity by featuring segments that resonate most with viewers. Don't miss this season of P. Allen Smith's Garden Home, as Allen brings viewers a unique balance of practical information and inspiring ideas.

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About P. Allen Smith
P. Allen Smith is an award-winning designer and lifestyle expert and host of two public television programs, P. Allen Smith's Garden Home, P. Allen Smith's Garden to Table and the syndicated 30-minute show P. Allen Smith Gardens. Smith is one of America's most recognized and respected design experts, providing ideas and inspiration through multiple media venues. He is the author of the best-selling Garden Home series of books published by Clarkson Potter/Random House, including Bringing the Garden Indoors: Container, Crafts and Bouquets for Every Room and P. Allen Smith's Seasonal Recipes from the Garden. Smith is a regular contributor on NBC's The Today Show and The Weather Channel. Allen is also very active on social networks such as Twitter, Facebook, Allen's Blog and YouTube as well as on the new eHow Home channel debuting January, 2012. His design and lifestyle advice is featured in several national magazines. Learn more at http://www.pallensmith.com.
Station Relations representative for the series is De Shields Associates. Contact: 301-388-2492 or robyn@deshieldsassociates.com.

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