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PAS Garden Home: Entry

This episode of P. Allen Smith’s Garden Home is about the importance of entry in garden design.  We’ll discuss using herbs at entries, the faux wood finish on the cottage front door and a fancy entry gate for a palatial chicken coop.
 
Pets in the Garden
Chicken Palace
The Chicken Palace is a house for the Bantam chickens that live at the Garden Home.  It is designed like a Greek temple and looks a little like a miniature Parthenon.  

Construction Update
Decorative Painter David Zoellner transforms a traditional stock wood door of the cottage into a work of art.  David paints the door to look just like Cuban Mahogany.  See a slide show of this faux bois project.

 Hands on Gardening
Growing herbs in containers allows you to grow your own fresh seasoning literally right outside your kitchen door.  Read about herbs that like cool weather.

Garden Home How To
Planting Onions
Just as the leaves on the trees are beginning to turn green you should head out to your vegetable garden to plant some onions.  They are easy to grow from sets.

Allen’s Collections: Roses
Penelope
Old Blush
Sarah van Fleet
Frau Karl Druschki
LaMarque

Friends in the Garden
Landscape architect Bob Byers walks us through the construction of the new rose garden and pavilion at Garvan Woodland Gardens in Hot Springs, Arkansas.

The Green Component
Subaru of Indiana Automotive, Inc in Lafayette Indiana takes recycling to heart.  Denise Coogan, SIA Safety and Environmental Compliance, tells us how 99% of the waste produced at the plant is recycled or resused.

Virtual Makeover
Barbara in Kansas would like a formal garden with lots of roses.  In this Virtual Makeover she’ll see how to transform her front yard into a structured cottage garden befitting her Tudor style home.