On this episode of Garden Home, host P. Allen Smith will discuss the 12 principles of design. Allen will tour his Garden Home and show you how he designed it using all these principles.
Topics Include
Using Hedges as Enclosure
Tips to Prune Hedges
Construction Update Front Porch Design
Daffodil Fields in Abundance
“Green” Expert discusses how to lessen our carbon footprint
Creating a Garden Entry
Garden Focal Point
Choosing Shutters for your windows
Shape and Form in the Garden
Designing with Rhythm
Tips on Maintaining your lawn
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.
To learn more about:
…Allen’s horticultural interests and secrets, sign up for his weekly newsletter: https://pallensmith.com/
…visiting Allen’s Garden Home above the Arkansas River, see https://pallensmith.com/tours/
….Allen’s favorite plants mentioned in his social media, see: To review many of the plants Allen mentions in his posts and that are planted in his own garden, see https://pallensmith.com/gilbert-h-wild-allens-favorites/
….retaining Allen’s Garden and Landscape design firm, see http://www.pallensmithandassociates.com/
…Allen’s Garden Home-inspired intergenerational community in Monroe, LA, see https://www.gardensofsomerset.com/
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28 Comments
I love your videos. What are the 2 small buildings next to your massive house ???
You are really helpful with these great videos, I loved all of the daffodils!
Solid, detailed information. I'm so thankful & as I work on my garden I'm sure I'll be watching the video again as a refresher course. 🥰
WHAT DO YOU DO ABOUT ROSE HIPS, DO YOU TRIM THE ROSE BUSH. WHEN?
I would love to see you collaborate or do a mashup with some of the great British gardeners like Monty Don, Charlie Dimmock, the Rich brothers, Arit Anderson etc etc. Would be so exciting to see all that garden know-how collaborating!
Allen's gotten a little chunky. Makes him more sexy.
Love your video💕
Having seen Allen's garden in person, I really enjoyed seeing Moss Mountain in the early stages. Gives me hope for my garden's future! :o) Kim-N-Garden
Wonderful knowledge & ideas thank you
I so appreciate this program. Thank you!
Came here for garden design but 90% of this is about something else..
While I know this is beautiful and very interesting, I was really hoping there would be some design techniques that were for people who make less than $25,000 a year. This is definitely for rich people.
I like that landscape design you did at the end. I’ve been so tempted to add color in some new trees and shrubs, but I think it might be best now to stick with white blooms on those and confine the colors to the seasonal flower beds. My flower prowess might fade, but the trees and shrubs will be forever.
I have been a fan since I was young and have owned any based landscape design company for almost 20 years. How can we get plastics out of our industry? I feel so conflicted with the amount of plants I sell that are grown in plastic containers. Recycling plastic is not the answer as it puts toxic fumes into our air. We need biodegradable containers. What are your thoughts?
Huge fan! What do you use at the lawn-flower patch interface to prevent the grass from invading the planting areas? Not your raised beds (you said that), but in the long lawn areas with the planting areas on each side
Thanks Allen for another fantastic video..I enjoy these so much and your insights on all these topics are so helpful..thanks again 😄🌳💐
The green bit was nonsense. Just stick to gardening tips.
what about support to the local environment (which leads one more to native plants) and fragrance?
That’s a very pretty house 🏠
I glean so much wisdom and knowledge from you! I always wanted to be like my Arkansas grandmother whose green thumb was phenomenal. She always had me helping to weed iher gardens. That's all I remembered how to do until I discovered you and other wonderful experts. Thank you for sharing your wealth of knowledge to help those of us who need the beauty and serenity of a garden and the act of tending to a garden. I miss my Arkansas mountain hometown here on the prairie of Texas.
What a great video. Full of good advice, and with a delightful 'suprise' ending. Sitting out in my dinky little garden in the North West of the UK, as the sun prepares to go down, I thank you.
Needlepoint holly is from the devil
What year is this from? Feels like 1990s
8:50 I'm sorry but it's a monocrop field and has nothing to do with the abundance in terms of biodiversity and environmentally-conscious gardening. And daffodils, unfortunately, have very little value for pollinators. In the time of climate crisis maybe it's time that we reconsider the essence of the abundance in the principles of garden design.
Nicely done video! Thanks for explaining these somewhat abstract concepts that I’m trying to create at home
Awesome
PSA “voting with your dollars” is not a good campaign to push, not everyone can afford it. I support the other ideas in this video
So helpful. Thank you!