2023 SOUTHEASTERN CONNECTICUT HOME AND GARDEN SHOW – Now the largest in new england

The Southeastern CT Home and Garden Show is one of Jenks Productions’ best and longest running regional home shows. Each year the Home Show draws more and more visitors, last year’s show had over 20,000 in attendance. This increased Home and Garden expo crowd has enticed even more home show vendor participation. Our Home improvement and Garden show will be held at the Earth Expo & Convention Center at Mohegan Sun in Uncasville, CT from Friday February 18 – Sunday February 20, 2022.

• Kitchen Design
• Kitchen Cabinets & Islands
• Home Decorators
• Home Improvement Ideas
• Interior Designers
• Bathroom & Kitchen Remodels

• Basement Remodeling Contractors
• Landscape Design & Architecture Companies
• Lawn Care Services
• Home Improvement Stores

• Home Repair
• Home Additions

• General Contractors
• Home Builders
• Home Improvement & Renovation Loans
• Tree Removal
• And Much more

• Landscape Designers
• Landscape Design & Installation
• Landscape Design & Architecture Companies
• Lawn Care Services
• Landscape Irrigation
• Plants, Garden Tools & Supplies
• Mowers & Power Equipment
• Garden Tools & Cutlery

• Iron & Stone Garden Sculptures
• Birdhouses & Garden Centers
• Organic Lawncare
• Patio Umbrellas
• Garden Swings
• Outdoor Furniture
• Pavers, Decks, Retaining Walls
• Garden Windows & Patio Doors

• Garden Statuary
• Garden Decor
• Pavers, Mulch & Stone
• Tree Removal
• Out Buildings
• Plants & Flowers
• And Much More

America’s Top Lifestyle Expert Mar Jennings Saturday 11:30am & 1:30pm Four Season Gardening

Ten-time Emmy-nominated and Telly Award winning TV Host, best-selling author and award winning Realtor Mar Jennings.

Mar Jennings is an Emmy® nominated, nationally syndicated television show host, entrepreneur, philanthropist and influencer. He is the bestselling author of 2 books, and is known as America’s top lifestyle expert. Millions of people rely on Mar Jennings as a source of useful “how-to” information for all aspects of Casual Luxury living—décor, gardening, home renovation and real estate. Currently, the Mar Jennings brand reaches approximately 1 million consumers each month across all media platforms.

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Join Mar Jennings, as he explores with you some of the best ideas for creating a fabulous, stress-free garden and home inspired by Mother Nature—all while maximizing your outdoor living space. Have a low budget or need to stay in a budget? No problem, as Mar offers his personal resources and secrets that will motivate you like never before.  A wealth of information awaits you. This informative presentation will transport you via a photographic essay through the seasons, seeing a garden and home through Mar’s distinctive eye for style and beauty. Join Mar for a virtual private tour of his enchanting Westport, Connecticut home, gardens and vine-covered garden studio. All your senses will be awakened by Mar’s casual luxury approach to making all things functional, beautiful and attainable to do.  

Find yourself needing a bit of Mar now?  No problem, check-out his dynamic web site: marjennings.com for a glimpse of what to expect from this truly spectacular time you will be spending with Mar.  

About Lorraine Ballato; Sunday 1:00 Success with Hydrangeas

As a professional horticulturist, Lorraine’s obsession with plants comes through in her lectures, social media writings, magazine articles and photographs which you can find in Connecticut Gardener, Edible Nutmeg, Coast of Maine, and elsewhere. Her weekly gardening columns ran for over ten years, reaching more than 15,000 homes in northwest Connecticut. Lorraine is an instructor at the New York Botanical Garden and in the Connecticut Master Gardener Program as well as for the Federated Garden Clubs of Connecticut. Lorraine has spoken on numerous gardening radio programs and podcasts from Alaska to Connecticut and delights audiences at regional symposiums, flower shows, civic gatherings, and garden clubs.

Besides tending the Connecticut garden which Lorraine and her husband have created (including many plants under trial conditions), Lorraine’s organic home garden includes seasonal vegetables, her beloved hydrangeas and all manner of ornamentals, which have informed her writing, lectures, and radio guest spots. Their garden is not only a laboratory but has been the subject of magazine articles and has been on several garden tours.

Lorraine’s latest book is the best selling Success With Hydrangeas: A Gardener’s Guide. Her previous book is Successful Self Watering Containers: Converting Your Favorite Container to a Self-Waterer. You can learn more about Lorraine on her website where you can also sign up for her free hydrangea blog.

Art Horn Friday 6:30 Sunday 12:15, Weather, Myths and Mysteries

Horn worked at WVIT channel 30 in West Hartford, Connecticut. At channel 30 he developed, produced and narrated “The Weather Show” at the Science Center of Connecticut in West Hartford educating thousands of students about the ways of the weather. He became well known for his creative and entertaining live performances out in storms. In addition, Art has extensive experience broadcasting weather forecasts on radio throughout his career. Art is self employed under the company name of The “Art” of Weather. In 2007 Art received an Emmy nomination at the 30th annual Boston Emmy Awards program for his PBS documentary “Hurricane: Direct Hit”.

Dr. Richard W. Benfield Around the World in 80 gardens Sunday 3:00

Dr. Richard W. Benfield is Emeritus Professor of Geography at Central Connecticut State University in New Britain, Connecticut where he teaches courses in Human Geography, Plants, Predators and Parks, Russia, The European Union and many of the courses in the department’s tourism track.

Around the World in 80 gardens is the culmination of his career in tourism to the world’s great gardens. In this session, beginning in the lush gardens of the pacific, through South America and Europe to South East Asia and Australia he will show garden enthusiasts and laymen alike the different and unique gardens and floral kingdoms of the world. He will take attendees through the three acres of gardens in Singapore airport, the arid gardens of Australia and the tropical gardens of the Seychelles (home of the love nut!) and the Canary Islands and culminating in the beautiful English country gardens of his home country, finishing with the unique and different gardens in the United States and Canada … in total 80 gardens in seven continents.

In 2013 his best-selling book Garden Tourism was published by CABI Press, Abingdon, England and in 2020 a second edition, New Directions in Garden Tourism, will also be published by CABI. He is currently working on the nexus of Plants Predators and National Parks around the world.

Jen Plasky Perfect Performing Planters Saturday 4:00

Jen Plasky is the Container Garden & Seasonal Decor Program Manager at Sam Bridge Nursery & Greenhouses LLC, serving clients in the greater NYC area. She is a member of the American Institute of Floral Designers (AIFD) and a graduate of the University of Connecticut, with a BS in Horticulture and MA in Education. Her 25 years of experience working in florists, greenhouses, garden centers, and landscape companies has instilled a passion for creating stunning horticultural accents.