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

July 13, 2025 39 mins
Better Lawns and Gardens Hour 2 – Coming to you from the Summit Responsible Solutions Studios.   Garden expert, Teresa Watkins, is joined by Clay Wallace, head grower at Classic Caladiums, the world's largest caladium grower to discuss the popular tropical plant. Teresa’s Dirty Word of the Day is Bolting. Garden topics and questions include, zucchini not producing, why is hibiscus leaves misshapened, what to grow in July, and...
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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 joined by Heather Stickney, Summit Responsible Solutions National Sales Manager about their organic Year Round Spray Oil. Teresa’s Top Five beneficial bugs you may not know. Garden topics and questions include summertime fungus, air circulation, sod webworms, how much to irrigate St. August...
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Florida’s most popular garden expert, Teresa Watkins answers your gardening questions on Better Lawns and Gardens. Listen every Saturdays from 7am - 9am EST on WFLA- Orlando and on Audioboom podcast 24/7. https://bit.ly/3c1f5x7

Better Lawns and Gardens Hour 2 – Coming to you from Summit Responsible Solutions Studios, Garden expert Teresa Watkins discusses childhood memories of seeing beautiful large tiger lilies and t...
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Florida’s most popular garden expert, Teresa Watkins answers your gardening questions on Better Lawns and Gardens. Listen every Saturdays from 7am - 9am EST on WFLA- Orlando and on Audioboom podcast 24/7. https://short-url.org/13aDP
Better Lawns and Gardens Hour 1 – Coming to you from Summit Responsible Solutions Studios, Garden expert Teresa Watkins announces the release of Southern Coastal Home Landscaping 2nd edition. ...
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Better Lawns and Gardens Hour 2 – Coming to you from the Summit Responsible Solutions Studios.   Garden expert, Teresa discusses the benefits of armadillos and  answers summertime garden questions.  Teresa’s Dirty Word of the Day is Acaulescent. Garden topics and questions include staghorn ferns, best time to prune mangos and more mango varieties, should coffee grounds be used in the landscape, Bird of Paradise not blooming, ...
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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 into summer answering questions on the best mango varieties, what is the best herbicide for clearing between fences, how to remove a tree stump and stopping suckering, best tomatoes for pest resistance, and more. Teresa provides her TOP FIVE favorite red, white, and blue flower combinations...
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Better Lawns and Gardens Hour 2 – Coming to you from the Summit Responsible Solutions Studios.  Host emeritus, Tom MacCubbin, interviews Austin Tollman, co-owner of Word of Mouth Tree Service on caring for your trees this summer.. Sign up for Teresa’s monthly gardening newsletter, “In Your Backyard” where you can read Teresa’s what to do in your landscape tips, Landscape Malpractice: How to know when to fire your landscaper,”...
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Better Lawns and Gardens Hour 1 – Coming to you from the Summit Responsible Solutions Studios.  While garden expert Teresa Watkins leads a garden tour to the Newport Flower Show, Host emeritus, Tom MacCubbin, discusses turkey poults with Lizzie, and answers caller questions and texts. Garden topics include cactus, mosquitos in a wooded forest, how to kill spurge in St. Augustine grass, lemon and kumquat trees not producing, a...
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Better Lawns and Gardens Hour 2 – Coming to you from the Summit Responsible Solutions Studios.   Garden expert, Teresa provides ways to use your home-grown sugar cane and how to grow plumeria. Teresa’s Dirty Word of the Day is Monocarpic. Garden topics and questions include Angel trumpet frass issue, will the mushrooms hurt my grass, summer edibles for South Florida, how to care for a Panama Rose, bat houses, fertilizer for a...
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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 discusses keeping pest away from cookouts, summer campfires, and family picnics with Heather Stickney, Summit Responsible Solutions. Teresa’ Top Five Favorite vegetables that attract pollinators. What to plant in June in your landscape. Garden questions include transplanting Drift roses, tasty ...
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Better Lawns and Gardens Hour 2 – Coming to you from the Summit Responsible Solutions Studios.  June is National Rose Month! Roses grow well in Florida if they are the right ones. Teresa provides rose care selection, care, and her favorite roses. Teresa’s Dirty Word of the Day is Caliper and DBH. Garden topics and questions include mulberry not looking good,  hibiscus dropping leaves, and propagation, and more. https://bit.ly...
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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 joined by Quality Green Specialists Nursery owner, Dana Venrick to talk about excellent trees for Father’s Day gifts. Teresa’ Top Five Pieces of Garden Art. What to plant in June in your landscape. Garden questions include staghorn fern fell – what to do? Can you grow tomatoes in summer in F...
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Better Lawns and Gardens Hour 2 – Coming to you from the Summit Responsible Solutions Studios.  Summer is here! Garden expert Teresa Watkins is back from visiting sublime gardens. Teresa’s Dirty Word of the Day is ha-ha. Teresa discusses her favorite British childhood literature bronze sculptures at the Chelsea Flower Show, and meeting the sculptor, Robert James Workshop. Garden topics and questions include sick magnolia, fig...
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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 back inspired, rejuvenated, and with a little zone envy, visiting the best of English Gardens and the Chelsea Flower Show. Just in time for the start of hurricane season. Teresa’ Top Five Favorite Plants featured How to design and prepare your landscape for storms, preventing elms from sucke...
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Better Lawns and Gardens Hour 2 – Coming to you from the Summit Responsible Solutions Studios.   Garden expert, Teresa Watkins has jetted off to the Chelsea Flower Show and Host Emeritus Tom MacCubbin and producer Lizzie Steele, are in the studio! Producer Lizzie Steele fills in Tom on how to keep her turkeys cool in the heat. Tom’s Dirty Word of the Day is Nematode. Tom interviews his good friend and UF/IFAS Master Gardener,...
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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 at the RHS Chelsea Flower Show and Host Emeritus Tom MacCubbin and producer Lizzie Steele, have the deck and the conn! Tom gives his update on the tomatoes and mite issue, his okra, Southern peas, in his vegetable garden and Tom’s Top Five Foliage Plants. Garden topics and questions includ...
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Better Lawns and Gardens Hour 2 – Coming to you from the Summit Responsible Solutions Studios,  Garden expert Teresa Watkins celebrates Mother’s Day with trivia and most popular flowers by states. Teresa’s Dirty Word of the Day is Kalanchoe. Garden questions and texts include viburnum shrubs are bare, weeping hibiscus, and hibiscus with aphids, keeping crape myrtles as shrubs, copperleaf plant height, how to make hydrangeas p...
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Better Lawns and Gardens Hour 1 – Coming to you from the Summit Responsible Solutions Studios. Happy Mother’s Day! Garden expert Teresa Watkins is joined by Dana Venrick, owner of Quality Green Specialists Nursery talk about the many varieties of loquat and olive, moringa trees, and the beautiful magnolia tree. Teresa’s Top Five Floral Perfumes for Mother’s Day. Garden topics and questions include how to care for an olive tre...
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Better Lawns and Gardens Hour 2 – Coming to you from the Summit Responsible Solutions Studios,  Garden expert Teresa Watkins answers Spring gardening questions. Teresa’s Dirty Word of the Day focuses on the difference between bacterial disease and fungal disease. Garden questions and texts include sea grapes not producing fruit, tomato issues, how to prune weeping hibiscus, pruning mulberry trees, what to do with tropical mil...
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Better Lawns and Gardens Hour 1 – Coming to you from the Summit Responsible Solutions Studios. Puddles in the parking lot! Yes, it rained! Garden expert Teresa Watkins and producer Lizzie Steele discuss Teresa’s trip to Savannah, Georgia and Charleston, South Carolina. May celebrations, (including World Naked Gardening Day) Mother’s Day suggestions to visit Dana Venrick at Quality Green Specialists Nursery in Deland and Peter...
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