Even as the housing market shows signs of improvement, many homeowners are staying put instead of selling – and outdoor rooms are topping their lists of remodeling projects, according to a report from U.S. News.  Remodeling industry sentiment reached a five-year high in the fourth quarter, tracked by the National Association of Home Builders’ Remodeling [...]

LIGHTS! CAMERA! ACTION! The 10th Annual New Jersey Flower and Garden Show goes for the glamour with a Hollywood-inspired theme of “Movie Classics.” Last year, Broadway musicals were the cue for garden designers who created stunning display gardens based on such hits as “Wicked,” “Big River” and “West Side Story.”  This time, who knows what [...]

Kerry Mendez from Perennially Yours in Ballston Spa, NY will be speaking at the 2011 New Jersey Flower and Garden Show this February.  Kerry brings a vast knowledge of perennial plants and gardening.  Kerry’s seminar days and times will be posted in early December 2010.

What did “The Secret Garden” look like? What grew in the jungles of “South Pacific” or around the lair of “The Lion King?” For that matter, what would “The Addams Family” plant behind their spooky old Victorian? Designers turn to the Great White Way for inspiration at the  NJ Flower & Garden show and the [...]

Check of the video of the Container Challenge at the 2010 NJ Flower Show. NJ Flower and Garden Show hosts ‘Container Challenge’ competition

Home Show exhibitors at last weekends Jersey Shore Home Show at Brookdale Community College in Lincroft, NJ said thing went very well for the first home show of the year. Attendance was good and homeowners were coming in asking the right questions, setting appointments and booking jobs. This year’s outlook is so much better than [...]

Garden Author, Ken Druse, will appear atthe NJ Flower Show on February 20 & 22, 2010 at the NJ Convention Center in Edison. Ken Druse has published text and photographs in articles for nearly every gardening and decorating magazine in the US. Ken can be heard on his own weekly public radio show and “Podcast” [...]

Mel invented the Square Foot Gardening System to replace the wasteful single row gardening method with a more manageable and efficient system. His Square Foot Gardening TV Series ran on PBS, Discovery Channel and Learning Channel for eight years. More on Mel to come… He will appear at the NJ Flower & Garden Show on [...]

Dominick Mondi and I visited with Ken Selody at Atlock Farm last week and taped Ken creating a terrarium that he’ll exhibit in his garden display at the NJ Flower Show in February. It was really cool how easy it was and I’m excited to see how it turns out in February at the show. [...]

The first in a series of videos on the preparation of the 2010 NJ Flower Show. Dominick Mondi from Mondi Designs and I are putting together this series to give people a bit of background on the process of producing the NJ Flower Show.