Legacy Manufacturing partners with garden and lifestyle expert P. Allen Smith to spread the word about Flexzilla®, their revolutionary garden hose

MARION, Iowa, May 20, 2014 /PRNewswire/ -- Legacy Manufacturing's Flexzilla® garden hose is the "official water hose" of mega-gardening guru P. Allen Smith (PAS) under an agreement recently signed by the two companies. As a PAS partner, Legacy Manufacturing will be a sponsor at the May 20-21 Garden2Blog14, an event Smith hosts annually for the 25 most influential garden bloggers, offering educational workshops, tours of his farm and product demonstrations. "This is huge, for us to have the chance to network with top garden bloggers and show them firsthand the benefits of our Flexzilla garden hose," said Matt Weems, Legacy Manufacturing VP. Flexzilla will also be featured through Smith's online and social media marketing campaigns, including Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest and Instagram activities.

"I can be pretty rough on the hoses at my farm; I have acres of garden to keep up and I need my hoses to be heavy duty," Smith said. "Often, I've had hoses not even last a season because they're used so much. When I came across Flexzilla Garden Hoses a few years ago and found they could hold up under my farm's conditions, including fluctuating temperatures, sun and hard everyday use, I knew I wanted to switch over to them fulltime. The Flexzilla garden hose is extremely flexible and does not kink under water pressure, making chores around the farm much easier."

Partnering with P. Allen Smith, a respected and popular gardening & lifestyle expert, gives Legacy Manufacturing access to his audience of millions of serious gardeners. Smith partners with some of the industry's leading brands.

Legacy Manufacturing Company is an international business located in Marion, Iowa that specializes in durable and innovative products including Legacy equipment for the automotive and industrial markets, Flexzilla hoses, cords and attachments, SmartFlex™ air and garden hoses, Lock-n-Load™ grease guns and ColorConnex®, an easy color matching system of couplers and plugs. Legacy Manufacturing is a division of Weems Industries, founded in 1986. For more information, visit legacymfg.com.

P. Allen Smith is an award-winning designer, gardening and lifestyle expert and host of two public television programs, P. Allen Smith's Garden Home, P. Allen Smith's Garden to Table and the syndicated 30-minute show P. Allen Smith Gardens. Smith is one of America's most recognized and respected design experts, providing ideas and inspiration through multiple media venues. He is the author of the best-selling Garden Home series of books published by Clarkson Potter/Random House, including Bringing the Garden Indoors: Container, Crafts and Bouquets for Every Room and Seasonal Recipes from the Garden. Allen is also very active on social media such as Twitter, Facebook, Allen's Blog and YouTube as well as on the eHow Home channel. His design and lifestyle advice is featured in several national magazines. Learn more at www.pallensmith.com.

Contact:
Nancy Crist
Public Relations Specialist
J.W. Morton & Associates
(319) 378-1081 x22

SOURCE Legacy Manufacturing Company