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

October 25, 2025 42 mins
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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Better Lawns and Gardens Hour 2 – Coming to you from the Summit Responsible Solutions Studios.   Garden expert, Teresa Watkins and Dr. Gary Bachman laugh, discuss seeds, air frying kale, and how to grind peppers to make seasoning. Gary gets to explain his Dirty Word of the Day. Garden topics and questions include Gary’s book “Southern Gardening All Year Long”, marigolds, deer prevention, 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 in the iHeart studios with good friend, Dr. Gary Bachman. Teresa and Gary discuss the Heritage Cottage Urban Nano Farm tomato and pepper seeds, glow-in-the-dark succulents. Garden questions and topics include the upcoming La Nina winter, Teresa’s Top Five Favorite flowers for hanging baskets, ...
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Better Lawns and Gardens Hour 2 – Coming to you from the Summit Responsible Solutions Studios.   Garden expert, Teresa Watkins Dirty Word of the Day is Corking.  Garden topics and questions include what to do in your landscape in October, blueberry fungus, eradicating sandspurs, avocado and tomatoes, palm trees damaging asphalt, ornamental grasses to plant, great gardens to visit in Alabama, microclover, and more. https://rb....
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Better Lawns and Gardens Hour 1 – Coming to you from the Summit Responsible Solutions Studios.  Garden expert Teresa Watkins is saddened by the passing of Dame Patricia Routledge, aka Hyacinth Bucket, pronounced “Bouquet”. Teresa discusses best pumpkin varieties for Florida. Lizzie is happy eggnog is in stock. Garden questions and topics include what to do in landscape this month. Teresa’s Top Five Foliage with Great Plant Te...
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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 the effervescent Katie Dubow, President of Garden Media Group on her predictions for 2026 garden trends. Teresa’s Dirty Word of the Day is Kusumi. Garden topics and questions include what to do in your landscape this month, plant identification, tall varieties of tomatoes, fertilizer, how...
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Better Lawns and Gardens Hour 1 – Coming to you from the Summit Responsible Solutions Studios.  Garden expert Teresa Watkins talks with Dana Venrick, owner of Quality Green Specialists Nursery in Deland on Fall fertilizing for turf, vegetables and landscape. Teresa tells what to do in landscape this month. Lizzie needs to know how to chill bulbs for her garden. Teresa’s Top Five Favorite Fall Vegetables, and more. 

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Better Lawns and Gardens Hour 2 – Coming to you from Summit Responsible Solutions Studios, Garden expert Teresa Watkins interviews Craig LeHoullier, The Tomato Man on his secrets for growing “Epic Tomatoes.”  Dirty Word of the Day is Amphigean. Teresa discusses “Can you have too many earth worms?” how long to keep black plastic on pots to sterilize them, using lake water for edibles and landscape, lawn issues, and more.  http...
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Better Lawns and Gardens Hour 1 – Coming to you from Summit Responsible Solutions Studios, Garden expert, Teresa Watkins, provides hurricane Ian updates for Florida and ways to prepare your landscape for the hurricane’s arrival. Teresa talks with Dr. Braham Dhillon, Mycologist, UF IFAS Fort Lauderdale Research and Education Center on palm diseases in Florida. Dr. Dhillon has developed a new test for homeowners to determine if...
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Better Lawns and Gardens Hour 2 – Coming to you from the Summit Responsible Solutions Studios.   Garden expert, Teresa Watkins takes phone calls and text messages on gardening issues. Teresa’s Dirty Word of the Day is Nastic Movements. Garden topics and questions include, what to do in your landscape for September, how long do oak trees live, whiteflies on summer squash, the bane of Teresa’s gardening existence: lubber grassh...
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Better Lawns and Gardens Hour 1 – Coming to you from the Summit Responsible Solutions Studios.  Teresa and Lizzie chat about their September garden adventures and Lizzies cuddly turkeys. Teresa discusses what to do in landscape for September, her Top Five gardening resources to use.  Garden topics and questions include lawn weeds, zinnia fungus, sandspurs, design, French toast, and more. 

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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 Roi Levin, Certified Pest Operator/Manager with Environmental Pest and Lawn Services on chinch bug resistance to current pesticides. Teresa’s Dirty Word of the Day is Bogs vs. Fens. Garden topics and questions include, thatch and chinch bugs, herbicides for torpedo grass in Asiatic jasmi...
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Better Lawns and Gardens Hour 1 – Coming to you from the Summit Responsible Solutions Studios.  Garden expert and host, Teresa Watkins is glad to be back after garden tours and Labor Day weekend. Teresa and Lizzie catch up on Tom MacCubbin and Gary Bachman’s studio visit. Teresa discusses what to do in landscape for September, her Top Five Plants she is on the hunt for and catches up on gardening questions. Garden topics and ...
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Best of Better Lawns and Gardens with Teresa Watkins - Labor Day weekend.

Better Lawns and Gardens Hour 2 – Coming to you from the Summit Responsible Solutions Studios,  Garden expert, Teresa Watkins receives an email on the frustrations of having nematodes in the vegetable bed. Teresa provides the steps to getting rid of nematodes. Teresa provides what to do in August with your fruit trees. The Dirty Word of the Day ...
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Best of Better Lawns and Gardens with Teresa Watkins - Labor Day weekend.

Better Lawns and Gardens Hour 1 – Coming to you from the Summit Responsible Solutions Studios. Host and garden expert, Teresa Watkins is joined by Dana Venrick, owner of Quality Green Specialist Nursery to discuss the need for soil amendments and what soil amendments to add for a healthy harvest. Teresa adds a new segment to her first hour: Tere...
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While Teresa Watkins is touring the Highland braes of Scotland, Better Lawns and Gardens host emeritus, Tom MacCubbin, interviews Krista Devor, Lukas Nursery and answering Florida gardeners' questions and texts on WFLA-Orlando.

Better Lawns and Gardens Hour 1 – Coming to you from the Summit Responsible Solutions Studios.  Better Lawns and Gardens Host emeritus, Tom MacCubbin is in the iHeart studio answering gardening...
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Better Lawns and Gardens Hour 1 – Coming to you from the Summit Responsible Solutions Studios.  Better Lawns and Gardens Host emeritus, Tom MacCubbin.

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