Check of the video of the Container Challenge at the 2010 NJ Flower Show.

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 last year when the public seemed to be glassy eyed and distant with the threat of the failing economy and horrible news being pumped out by the news outlets each day.

Tara Dillard is a nationally recognized garden designer, author, and speaker who has hosted her own TV program, The Better Gardening Show, on CBS will be appearing at the Maymont Flower & Garden Show on February 18 – 21 at the Greater Richmond Convention Center in Richmond, VA.

Eddie will demonstrate fast, easy and inexpensive ways of enlivening your decor with color at the Home Show.

Home & Lifestyle Expert Eddie Ross Will Appear All 3 Days at the Garden State Home Show – February 5 – 7, 2010 at the Garden State Convention Center in Somerset, NJ.

Join HGTV guest designer and former Martha Stewart Living editor Eddie Ross for a fun, informative presentation on enhancing your home with color. From paint to accessories and everything in between, Eddie will demonstrate fast, easy and inexpensive ways of enlivening your decor with color.

As we come down to the wire for our 2010 winter Home Shows they are filling up nicely after a slow start in 2009. Expect top see hundreds of display booths at this year’s Home Shows in both New Jersey and Virginia.

Something I’ve come to learn as both the producer of Home Shows as well as a customer of exhibiting companies is that the businesses that exhibit at the show tend to be the cream of the crop. Hey, I’m not saying that there aren’t good businesses out there that don’t participate in Home Shows, but what I am saying is that the ones that participate are generally really good.

Why, well simply a lot goes into setting up an exhibit at a Home Show. Besides the cost of purchasing a booth, companies need an exhibit, trained manpower to work the booth, insurance, the capabilities to make the investment work over the long run, etc…

That’s why I believe that companies that exhibit at home shows tend to be some of the top companies in their field.

James River Green Building Council

We are pleased to announce the participation of the James River Green Building Council within the “Green Zone.” at the Home Show – Richmond.

For the third consecutive year, the “Green Zone” feature area will provide attendees the latest ideas for green remodeling or new construction for your home. Get ideas on making your home a healthy environment while also saving dollars on your utility bills. Products and services include insulation, geothermal, solar, green construction, rainwater harvesting, HVAC, environmentally friendly products for the home, radiant heat and barriers and more!

Come and listen to the experts in the Home Seminar area on how to make it all happen!

Eddie will demonstrate fast, easy and inexpensive ways of enlivening your decor with color at the Home Show.

Join HGTV guest designer and former Martha Stewart Living editor Eddie Ross for a fun, informative presentation on enhancing your home with color. From paint to accessories and everything in between, Eddie will demonstrate fast, easy and inexpensive ways of enlivening your decor with color.

Noted garden author to appear at NJ Flower & Garden Show.

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” – Ken Druse REAL DIRT, which is downloaded to computers and iPods all over the world. Sign up for Ken’s free electronic newsletter at (sign up at www.kendruse.com).

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 Friday, February 19 – Sunday, February 21, 2010 at the NJ Convention Center in Edison. NJ Flower & Garden Show

More on Square Foot Gardening.

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.

Ken’s nursery is in Somerset and easy to get to off of Interstate 287. There’s a great selection of Coleus, container plantings, herbaceous perennials, topiaries and tropicals. More on Atlock Farm in a later video post. www.atlockfarm.com