In P. ALLEN SMITH'S GARDEN HOME, celebrated garden designer P. Allen Smith offers up his trade secrets to empower both novice and experienced gardeners to create their own backyard paradises. His 12 essential principles of design give viewers the tools to transform their outdoor spaces and add value and beauty to their homes. He also brings the garden inside the home by combining everyday household items with nature's bounty in the new segment, "Allen’s Collections." Like previous seasons, the series also offers fun how-to projects and garden maintenance tips, green-living ideas, interviews with gardening enthusiasts, solutions to plant problems, money-saving ideas, delicious recipes and easy entertaining suggestions.