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." (https://lp.constantcontactpages.com/sl/il82tQY/BLGnewsletter) #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

April 19, 2025 39 mins
Better Lawns and Gardens Hour 2 – Coming to you from the Summit Responsible Solutions Studios,  Happy Easter! Garden expert Teresa Watkins learns from Heather Stickney, Summit Responsible Solutions National Sales Manager about Deer Ban, their solution to keeping deer out of the landscape. Teresa’s Dirty Word of the Day is Asclepias. Garden questions and texts include blackberry primocanes, thank you’s for information on using...
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Better Lawns and Gardens Hour 1 – Coming to you from the Summit Responsible Solutions Studios.  Spring is in the air with fruits, flower show and a foliage festival coming up! Garden expert Teresa Watkins is joined by Dana Venrick with all the fruit trees you can find at Quality Green Specialists Nursery in Deland. Teresa is looking forward to attending the Orlando Garden Club’s Treasures from My Spring Garden event April 25t...
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from the Summit Responsible Solutions Studios.  Garden expert Teresa Watkins continues her conversation with  UF/IFAS Seminole County Florida-Friendly Landscaping Agent, Tina McIntyre for Earth Day’s special events. Teresa’s Dirty Word of the Day is Resistance. Garden questions and texts include avocado update, difference between Eastern cedars and Southern Red Cedars, how to pollinate indoor tomato plants, and more.  https://...
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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 UF/IFAS Seminole County Florida-Friendly Landscaping Agent, Tina McIntyre for Earth Day’s special events for water conversation. In recognition of Palm Sunday, Teresa’s Top Five favorite palm trees! Garden topics and questions include reclaimed water, lemon tree small harvest, what’s a good...
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Better Lawns and Gardens Hour 2 – Coming to you from the Summit Responsible Solutions Studios,  Garden expert and host Teresa Watkins interviews Robin Thiesen and Carolin Von De Berg, directors of the Sanford Cultural Guild on their annual Sanford Historic Garden Tour, April 5, 2025. Teresa’s Dirty Word of the Day is Cleistogamy. Garden questions and texts include harvesting Bahiagrass seed, crotons and ixoras, when to cut ba...
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Better Lawns and Gardens Hour 1 – Coming to you from the Summit Responsible Solutions Studios.  The April “In Your Backyard” gardening newsletter is out! Garden expert Teresa Watkins tells what to plant in your garden in April. Teresa’s Top Five landscape installation mistakes! Garden topics and questions include lubber grasshoppers, can peonies be grown in Florida, how to grow crotons and dwarf ixoras, why is my podocarpus h...
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Better Lawns and Gardens Hour 2 – Coming to you from the Summit Responsible Solutions Studios,  Teresa’s Dirty Word of the Day is Taproot. Teresa is joined by Jim Putnam, host of HortTube to discuss Southern Living Plants to help butterfly population. To celebrate April as Water Conservation Month, Osceola County Toho Water Authority Water Conservation Supervisor Rodney Tilley and Conservation Liaison Gracie Overstreet discus...
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Better Lawns and Gardens Hour 1 – Coming to you from the Summit Responsible Solutions Studios.  Teresa and Lizzie discuss the weather’s cold front, Grosse Pointe tv show, and Teresa’s Blueberry Gnome painted by her granddaughter.  Teresa’s Top Five Favorite Plants that have purple flowers! Teresa interviews Dana Venrick, owner of Quality Green Specialists about the popular Florida Wildflower & Garden Festival in Deland, M...
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Better Lawns and Gardens Hour 2 – Coming to you from the Summit Responsible Solutions Studios,  Dirty Word of the Day is Trap Cropping. Teresa is joined by Heather Stickney, Summit Responsible Solutions national sales manager. Heather provides her companies’ environmental solutions to prevent mosquitos, ticks, and fungal gnats, during camping, hiking, picnics, while also reducing pesticide use. Garden questions and topics, ga...
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Better Lawns and Gardens Hour 1 – Coming to you from the Summit Responsible Solutions Studios.  Teresa sadly announces the passing of a great Better Lawns and Gardens host. Teresa provides her tips on how to care of African violets. Condolences from Better Lawns and Gardens long time listeners. Great gardening week to plant new flowers, shrubs, and trees. In Your Backyard Newsletter is out! Teresa’s Top Five Favorite Plants k...
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Best of Better Lawns and Gardens with Teresa Watkins.
Better Lawns and Gardens Hour 1 – Coming to you from the Summit Responsible Solutions Studios.  Teresa is celebrating St. Patrick’s Day all month! Dana O’Venrick, owner of Quality Green Specialists Nursery discusses the many kinds of O’live trees that will grow in Florida and announces the upcoming Florida Wildflower Festival. Teresa found 'Choca Mocha' Cosmos and Lizz...
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Best of Better Lawns and Gardens with Teresa Watkins.

Florida’s most popular garden expert, Teresa Watkins answers your gardening questions on Better Lawns and Gardens. Listen every Saturday from 7am - 9am EST on WFLA- Orlando, iHeart radio, and wherever you listen to podcasts. https://bit.ly/3c1f5x7

Better Lawns and Gardens Hour 2 – Coming to you from the Summit Responsible Solutions Studios, The Irish holi...
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Better Lawns and Gardens Hour 2 – Coming to you from the Summit Responsible Solutions Studios,  Dirty Word of the Day is Bare-bottom Syndrome. Producer Lizzie Steele discusses her peppers and the large pots they need. Garden expert, Teresa helps Jerry learn how to propagate Gloriosa lilies by stem cutting. Gardening questions and topics include what vegetables to plant in March, squirrel issues, calla lily site conditions, ca...
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Better Lawns and Gardens Hour 1 – Coming to you from the Summit Responsible Solutions Studios.  First of March! Spring is nearly here and gardening in is the air! Teresa opens with espying a beautiful Saucer Magnolia which should be struggling in Central Florida but it’s a healthy, bountifully blooming native tree. Comfortable but cooler weather predictions this week. Great gardening week to plant new flowers, shrubs, and 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 caller’s gardening questions every Saturday. Dirty Word of the Day is Blind bulbs. Gardening questions and topics include, chill hours, getting a mulberry to fruit, grapefruit white flecks, time to fertilizer, watering citrus trees, leaf miner, what are net mums, yellowing green bean leaves, an...
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Better Lawns and Gardens Hour 1 – Coming to you from the Summit Responsible Solutions Studios.  Groundhog Day weather! It’s cold again. Teresa discusses with Dana Venrick, owner of Quality Green Specialists Nursery, the benefits of winter chill hours in producing a good fruit harvest. Dana discusses the importance of fertilizing with micronutrients. Teresa’s Top Five favorite plants with yellow flowers.  Garden topics and que...
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Better Lawns and Gardens Hour 2 – Coming to you from the Summit Responsible Solutions Studios,  Garden expert, Teresa Watkins gives her tips on creating a night garden and what plants have heart-shaped leaves. Dirty Word of the Day is Cordate. Gardening questions and topics camellias, fertilizer, more avocado questions, fruitful mango trees, does mulch attract termites, foundation plants need to be moved out from under eaves,...
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Better Lawns and Gardens Hour 1 – Coming to you from the Summit Responsible Solutions Studios. Another Polar Vortex on the way! Garden expert Teresa and Lizzie discuss the upcoming gardening weather, protecting the turkeys, and what to do in your landscape. Teresa’s Top Five are ground cover plants that can be planted on septic tanks and in drain fields. Garden topics and questions include refreshing St. Augustinegrass, what ...
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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 good friend, Dr. Gary Bachman, Heritage Cottage Urban Nano Farm grower discuss Gary’s organic and unusual tomato and pepper seed varieties for sale. Use DISCOUNT sales code TERESA for 25% off anything at Gary-Grows.com. Dirty Word of the Day is Parthenocarpy. Gardening questions and top...
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Better Lawns and Gardens Hour 1 – Coming to you from the Summit Responsible Solutions Studios. What a difference two weeks makes for Florida landsdcapes! Teresa speaks with David White about the Greater Orlando Orchid Society’s Show on Valentine’s Day weekend. Teresa provides the meaning behind Valentine flowers and Teresa’s Top Five fragrant roses. Garden topics and questions include spider mites on Black Diamond crape myrtl...
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