P. Allen Smith

CAREER HIGHLIGHTS

• Host of public television series P. Allen Smith's Garden Home, reaching 75% of U.S. television homes
• Host of P. Allen Smith Gardens, a 30-minute nationally syndicated program broadcasting to 83% of U.S. households (8 seasons) 
• Regular guest contributor on NBC's Today Show
• Author of the best-selling Garden Home series of books published by Clarkson Potter/Random House:
• P. Allen Smith's Garden Home: Creating a Garden for Everyday Living (February 2003)
• P. Allen Smith’s Garden Home Journal (Spring 2004)
• P. Allen Smith’s Container Gardens: 60 Container Recipes to Accent Your Garden (March 2005)
• P. Allen Smith's Colors for the Garden: Creating Compelling Color Themes (February. 2006)
• P. Allen Smith's Living in the Garden Home: Connecting the Seasons with Containers, Crafts, and Celebrations (November2007)
• The Weather Channel's exclusive gardener, hosting reports broadcasting to over 76 million homes
• Host of 90-second, nationally syndicated gardening reports on commercial television news programs.
• Author of pallensmith.com Web site with 10,000 pages of gardening support information receiving 3 million hits per month
• Contributing garden editor for Woman's Day and Woman's Day Special Interest publications (21 million readers) along with articles in several other national magazines including Cottage Living, Southern Accents, Hobby Farm Home, Sustainable Home, and Gardening How-To 

AWARDS AND RECOGNITIONS

• Highest Award: Medal of Honor and Honorary Member of the Garden Club of America
• Garden Communicator Award from the American Nursery and Landscape (ANLA)
• Horticultural Communicator Award from the American Horticultural Society (AHS)
• Featured author at National Book Festival on the National Mall, Washington, DC
• Projects Odyssey Award presented by the Hendrix College Board of Trustees to honor achievements by alumni of Hendrix College
• Rotary International Scholarship to study garden design and history at the University of Manchester in England

EXPERIENCE AND EDUCATION

• Professional garden designer for 25 years
• Garden center owner and operator for 10 years
• Certified Fellow of the Royal Horticultural Society
• Board member of the Royal Oak Foundation, the United States affiliate of the National Trust of England, Wales and Northern Ireland

About STIHL

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