Better Lawns and Gardens

Better Lawns and Gardens

Better Lawns and Gardens host, Teresa Watkins, provides gardening advice, landscaping tips, interviews garden celebrities, and answers your questions on turf, flowers, shrubs, and trees. Gardening information for gardeners who want to be sustainable and low maintenance! Topics and interviews include monthly gardening advice on Florida-friendly landscaping, water conservation, landscape design, themed gardens, new garden books, and colorful plants for sun or shade. Saturday mornings 7am - 9am EST. iHeart WFLA-AM 540 https://bit.ly/3594wWb The Better Lawns & Gardens Podcast drops every Monday! Subscribe so you don't miss an episode. Call with your questions at 1-888-455-2967 or text 23680. Subscribe to Teresa's free monthly gardening newsletter "In Your Backyard." #WFLF #WFLA #FNN #BetterLawns #gardening #Florida #planting #gardeninglife #radio #southflorida #northflorida #centralflorida #tropical #floridalife #photography #SHE #fertilizer #turf #grass #landscaping #fruits #vegetables #Orlando #Sarasota #Miami #FortLauderdale #BLGradio #WRLN #WiOD #BlackKow #SummitResponsibleSolutions #QualityGreenSpecialists #iHeart #TeresaWatkins #podcast #liveradio #Southerngardening #South #vegetablegardening #tropicalplants #tropical #iTunes #Amazon #Spotify #SouthernLiving #Bhg #Tampa #Tallahassee #Georgia #Louisiana #Texas #Alabama #landscapingtips #gardenadvice #garden #plants #tropical

Episodes

December 20, 2025 38 mins
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Better Lawns and Gardens Hour 2 – Coming to you from the Summit Responsible Solutions Studios, Merry Christmas and Happy Hanukah. Garden expert, Teresa Watkins is joined by Dana Venrick, Quality Green Specialists, to discuss poinsettias, how to plant shrubs and trees in December. Dirty Word of the Day is Chill Hours. Gardening questions include how to calculate chill hours in your reg...
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Better Lawns and Gardens Hour 1 – Coming to you from the Summit Responsible Solutions Studios.  It’s the Winter Solstice. Garden expert Teresa Watkins and producer Lizzie Christmas cookies, December’s cold temperatures, and is there anything you need to do in your garden right now. Teresa’s Top Five plants that hide utilities, a/c units. Garden topics and questions include scratched ...
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Better Lawns and Gardens Hour 2 – Coming to you from the Summit Responsible Solutions Studios. Garden expert, Teresa Watkins is joined by Renée Wilson on the eve of the Audubon’s traditional Christmas Bird Count. Dirty Word of the Day is Semelparity. Garden topics and questions include what to  plant in the month of December, ‘Phenomenal’ Lavender, time to fertilize mums, replacing lawn, pine mulch to prevent weeds, soil mois...
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Better Lawns and Gardens Hour 1 – Broadcasting live from the Summit Responsible Solutions Studios.  Garden expert, Teresa Watkins answers call in and text questions on what to do in your landscape in December. Teresa’s Top Five Christmas songs that mention plants. Garden topics and questions include sod installation, soil moisture meters, fertilizing winter annuals, clusia disease, and more. https://rb.gy/0hzjxx 

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Better Lawns and Gardens Hour 2 – Coming to you from the Summit Responsible Solutions Studios. Garden expert, Teresa Watkins gets Santa’s gift list from Randy Schultz, editor and founder of Home Garden and Homestead. Dirty Word of the Day is Heterophylla. Garden topics and questions include: What to  plant in the month of December, delphiniums, Eileen’s bird feeders, ‘Phenomenal’ Lavender, and more. https://rb.gy/0hzjxx
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Better Lawns and Gardens Hour 1 – Broadcasting live from the Summit Responsible Solutions Studios. Celebrating St. Nicholas Day, patron of Christmas gift-giving, Garden expert, Teresa Watkins and Dana Venrick, Quality Green Specialists Nursery talk about stopping by the nursery and giving gift certificates, fruit trees and poinsettias. Teresa’s Top Five Citrus trees resistant to citrus greening. Garden topics and questions in...
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Better Lawns and Gardens Hour 2 – Coming to you from Summit Responsible Solutions Studios, Garden expert, Teresa Watkins announces the Meet The Authors Party hosted by the National Garden Bureau on Thursday, November 9th. Natalie Carmolli, Proven Winners Color Choice introduces their Deer Proof Plant Program. Garden questions include how much to water Soursop, Lethal Bronzing of Sylvester Palm, fruit tee leaves browning, favo...
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Better Lawns and Gardens Hour 1 – Coming to you from the Summit Responsible Solutions Studios. Oranges, tangerines, and grapefruit, oh my! Garden expert and host Teresa Watkins interviews @UF /IFAS Lake County Extension ’s new Residential Horticultural agent, Maria Bautista.  Maria advises on how to select a citrus tree and care for it. Lizzie receives a Plant Delights Nursery’s Zephyranthes rain lily ‘Batik’. Teresa’s Top Fiv...
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Better Lawns and Gardens Hour 2 – Coming to you from the Summit Responsible Solutions Studios. Garden expert, Teresa Watkins is joined by her friend, garden author, Jenny Rose Carey, to discuss her newest best-selling book, "The Essential Guide to Bulbs." You can get signed copies of "The Essential Guide to Bulbs" on Jenny's website. Dirty Word of the Day is Geophytes. Garden topics and questions include Bougainvillea ‘Torch ...
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Better Lawns and Gardens Hour 1 – Broadcasting live from the Summit Responsible Solutions Studios. Happy Thanksgiving! Garden specialist Teresa Watkins discusses her gratitude for sponsors, listeners, and conservation organizations like Horse Farms Forever and Florida Land Stewardship Partnership for their efforts. Teresa’s Top Five Colorful Fall Shrubs. Garden questions and topics include removing weeds and adding Black Kow ...
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Better Lawns and Gardens Hour 2 – Coming to you from the Summit Responsible Solutions Studios.   Garden expert, Teresa Watkins lists botanical plants and materials found in the landscape to create holiday decorations. Dirty Word of the Day is Bacciferous. Garden topics and questions include how trees grow, Norfolk Island Pine trees, more lemon tree questions, flowering tree ID, gardenia leaves turning yellow, and more. https:...
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Better Lawns and Gardens Hour 1 – Broadcasting live from the Summit Responsible Solutions Studios. Garden specialist Teresa Watkins shares updates on recent weather records and offers advice on planting choices that will help attract migratory birds to your garden. Teresa’s Top Five Favorite native trees to plant for Cedar waxwings. Garden questions and topics include the mulching fruit trees, how to divide staghorns, pinecone...
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Better Lawns and Gardens Hour 2 – Coming to you from the Summit Responsible Solutions Studios.   Garden expert, Teresa Watkins finds out how Ray Roberts, retired owner of Central Florida Ferns and Foliage, discovered a fascination with ferns that became his life’s work. Dirty Word of the Day is Tracheophytes. Garden topics and questions include yellowing of lemon tree leaves, whether Christmas Palms need covered with the appr...
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Better Lawns and Gardens Hour 1 – Coming to you from the Summit Responsible Solutions Studios.  Winter temperatures will set earliest arrival of record lows for Florida. Garden expert Teresa Watkins and Dana Venrick, owner of Quality Green Specialists discuss prepping the landscape and protecting tender tropical plants. Teresa’s Top Five Favorite Fall and Winter Blooming Shrubs and Plants. Garden questions and topics include ...
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Better Lawns and Gardens Hour 2 – Coming to you from the Summit Responsible Solutions Studios.   Garden expert, Teresa Watkins provides the Fall chores to do in your landscaping. Teresa talks about Barilla oven-ready lasagna noodles. Dirty Word of the Day is Woody Lilies. Garden topics and questions include what kind of grass to plant, Plumeria is too tall to cover, more full moon suggestions, and more. https://rb.gy/0hzjxx <...
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Better Lawns and Gardens Hour 1 – Coming to you from the Summit Responsible Solutions Studios.  Garden expert Teresa Watkins is shocked by last week’s rainfall and flooding and explains why it happened. Teresa’s Top Five Florida tips on How to Prepare For Winter. Garden questions and topics include cooler weather, how to subscribe to Teresa’s free monthly “In Your Backyard” newsletter, what to call Florida’s full moons, what ...
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Better Lawns and Gardens Hour 2 – Coming to you from the Summit Responsible Solutions Studios.   Garden expert, Teresa Watkins spooks producer Lizzie Steele with deadly plants that can be found in Florida and around the world. Dirty Word of the Day is Anthocyanin. Garden topics and questions include urban legends, safety in growing oleander, differences between Christmas and Thanksgiving cactus, what to do in your Fall garden...
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Better Lawns and Gardens Hour 1 – Coming to you from the Summit Responsible Solutions Studios.  Garden expert Teresa Watkins celebrates Halloween with her list of black flowers, ornamental grasses and tropical plants. Teresa’s Top Five Florida Black Plants to grow in Florida. Garden questions and topics include cooler weather and expected rainfall for the state, how to subscribe to Teresa’s free monthly “In Your Backyard” new...
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Better Lawns and Gardens Hour 2 – Coming to you from the Summit Responsible Solutions Studios.   Garden expert, Teresa Watkins discusses Fall gardening topics. Dirty Word of the Day is Canescent. Garden topics and questions include foraging, plant id, ‘Fire and Ice’ Hibiscus, sweet potato and herbicide, preventing artillerary fern, when to buy chrysanthemums, and more. https://rb.gy/0hzjxx
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Better Lawns and Gardens Hour 1 – Coming to you from the Summit Responsible Solutions Studios.  Garden expert Teresa Watkins is joined by Dana Venrick, owner of Quality Green Specialists Nursery about the best time to plant fruit and nut trees. Teresa’s Top Five Florida Plants For Halloween. Garden questions and topics include upcoming beautiful weather, turf irrigation, growing garlic, new hardwood chips for mulch, pokeweed,...
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