The Home & Garden Show is Your Source for Everything You Need for Your Home - Inside and Out!

Feb. 1, 2013 - PRLog -- The St. Louis 36th Annual Builders Home & Garden Show returns to America’s Center Thursday, February 21 through Sunday, February 24. One of the largest quality consumer home shows in North America, the Home & Garden Show is the place to see, learn about and buy the latest home products and services from reputable companies you can trust. The show is produced by the Home Builders Association.

The Builders Home & Garden Show is actually six shows in one, showcasing the latest in Lawn & Garden, Kitchen & Bath, Interior Design, Pool & Spa, Building Products and Green Products. Nearly 500 exhibitors in 1,800 booths fill nearly 400,000 square feet and provide consumers with an excellent buying opportunity, competitive pricing and side-by-side comparison between companies.

Welcome spring as you stroll through six beautiful feature gardens filled with fabulous flowers, water features and the newest ideas for your garden. And don’t miss the centerpiece of the feature garden area – the Amazing Living Fountain! This mesmerizing entertainment experience returns to the Show to captivate visitors. The haunting music begins, and with magical elegance, a statue of a beautiful woman animates into a living fountain. Delicate jets of water appear from her fingertips and a shimmering halo cascades from the crown of her head in this beautifully choreographed display.

Visit the Belgard Landscapers Challenge to see a stunning landscape built with Belgard hardscapes. Show visitors can dream of a new outdoor living space and register to win a $6,000 brick oven for their own yard. Learn how to create the yard and garden you’ve always dreamed of by attending seminars at the St. Louis Post-Dispatch Green Thumb Theater. Renegade Gardener Don Engebretson will bring his own brand of frank, humorous gardening know-how to the show in seminars about container gardening, landscape design, and common gardening myths and the mayhem they cause! Additional experts will present seminars about vegetable gardening and enhancing your home’s curb appeal.

Learn how you can save money, breathe easier and help the environment at the GeoComfort Green Products Pavilion & Stage. Get information from nearly 20 companies and attend informative seminars from local and national experts, including HGTV’s Jeff Wilson. Jeff has appeared in nearly 200 episodes on HGTV and diy Network. He also has more than 25 years of experience in home building and remodeling. He will share information about how deep energy retrofits on older homes and buildings can slash energy use by 50-90% and save money and resources. He will also present seminars about green kitchen and bath trends. KMOX Home Answer Man Scott Mosby will reveal the best place to spend your home improvement dollars to increase your home’s value and save you money at the same time. And visit the Mosby Solution Center where experts can give you answers to all of your home improvement questions.

The Better Living Theater features seminars on a variety of home improvement topics by local experts. Get valuable information that can help you design or remodel your kitchen or bath. Learn about the newest design ideas and hottest trends for these high-traffic rooms in your home. And identify the countertop styles and materials that will work the best for your home and lifestyle.

The Home Show is always a family-friendly destination. Kids and adults alike will love the Flying Houndz Frizbee Trick Dog Show. The show offers upbeat, family-oriented music, engaging narration and choreographed routines that will amaze audiences. World-class Frisbee dogs will fly high while catching Frisbees, plus show off fancy footwork and trick dog dancing. Kids will also enjoy the Children’s Garden Club, with free hands-on projects they can make at the Show and take home, brought to the show by St. Louis County Parks. The Flying Houndz Frizbee Trick Dog Show is sponsored by Wells Fargo Home Mortgage and all Family Fun areas are sponsored by Suburban Journals.

Don’t plan or remodel your kitchen or bath until you visit the Kitchen & Bath Showcase to see the newest styles and design ideas in cabinetry, appliances, plumbing fixtures and countertops. The Interior Design Marketplace features furniture, window and wall treatments, flooring and accessories from across the country, with many products new to the area. A wide variety of pools and spas are on display and ready for purchase in the Pool & Spa Showcase. The Lawn & Garden Marketplace features the largest selection of lawn equipment and landscape supplies under one roof. See the newest equipment from most major manufacturers. And don’t miss the 11th annual Flower Show for amazing floral design and impressive horticultural specimens. The School Days Flower Show is presented and juried by the Federated Garden Clubs of Missouri.

Attendees can register to win the Ultimate Dream Play Backyard from Dream Play Recreation, a $5,000 Value! Your backyard could be transformed into the ultimate playground for your family with this fabulous prize package. Imagine the hours of fun and enjoyment your family can have playing together on a Dream Play Recreation play system, basketball goal and springfree trampoline. The prize package includes installation. Some restrictions may apply.

Show hours are Thursday, February 21 through Saturday, February 23, 10 a.m. to 9 p.m. and Sunday, February 24, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Admission price is $10 for adults, $4 for children ages six to twelve, and free for children five and under. Special show discounts are available with coupons from Schnucks. Pre-purchase tickets online to receive $2 off adult admission any show day and included is a full year’s subscription to Better Homes & Gardens (a value of $6).

3,500 parking spaces are available at Laclede’s Landing and the Arch garage. Visitors may park at participating lots for $3-$4 with parking validation and catch a free shuttle to and from America’s Center. The shuttle, sponsored by the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, will run in five-minute intervals throughout the show.

The St. Louis 36th Annual Builders Home & Garden Show is happy to have Dish Network as the Show’s Official Satellite Provider.

For more information, visit www.STLHomeShow.com.