Better Lawns & Gardens

Better Lawns & Gardens

Florida's foremost gardening podcast by gardening expert and professional designer, Teresa Watkins!

Episodes

June 28, 2025 39 mins
Dirty Word of the Day is Acaulescent. What plants to use in a Rain Garden? Teresa has a list of plants to use in a Rain Garden, just email her & request the list. Teresa.Watkins@Live.com What you can plant this month. Armadillo problems & a health warning for you about touching them.
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What should you be planting right now? Teresa's Top Five Red White & Blue plant. Tomato planting questions, growing mangos on a screened in porch, azaleas & more.
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Tom MacCubin has a Dirty Word of the Day. Austin Tollman, a Certified Arborist with Word of Mouth Tree Service chats about tree branches hanging over roofs & how to distinguish tween heat stress and drought. Tom takes your calls about nutsedge , what is eating your green beans & a vine with potatoes growing on it.
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June 21, 2025 40 mins
Tom MacCubbin gives us lawn care tips to keep it looking sharp & clean during the summer. Pruning time for azaleas & gardenias is over. Tom's Top Ten favor summer flower.
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June 16, 2025 39 mins
Garden expert, Teresa Watkins has a new Dirty Word of the Day, answers your summer garden questions, tells you how you can use your edible home-grown sugar cane and how to grow plumeria. 
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June 16, 2025 40 mins
Garden expert, Teresa Watkins is joined by Heather Stickney, Summit Responsible Solutions, for tips on having a pest-free, no mosquito summer! Teresa's Top Five and answers gardening questions and tells you what to do in your landscape in June.
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It's National Rose Month and Teresa tells you her favorite roses! Weather and what to do in your landscape in June. Teresa answers your garden questions. Sign up for Teresa's Newsletter: "In Your Backyard" at www.she-consulting.com
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Garden expert Teresa Watkins discusses planting olive trees and the best trees to grow in Florida. Dana Venrick, guest, owner of Quality Green Specialist.  Teresa shares what to do in your landscape for June and answers your gardening questions. Teresa's Top Five Pieces of Garden Art. 
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May 31, 2025 38 mins
Dirty Word of the Day: Ha-Ha Landscapes. Teresa answers you questions about: Pineapple plants lack of producing, fertilizing plumeria plant care, growing a Lila Avocado in a containers, why are there mushrooms in my new sod & how often to water it.
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Teresa's Top Five Plants: Chelsea Flower Show Zone Envy. What to grow & can you use crabgrass pre- emergence?
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Tom MacCubbing chats with Bob Hotaling University of Florida Master Gardener, Excellent gardener and good friend about getting seeds to germinate. The Dirty Word of the Day – Nematode. Tom answers your questions on boxwoods seem to do poorly in Central Florida what other alternative plants to use, pineapple guava problems, Italian Cyprus & how the best tomatoes have come out of my compost.
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Tom MacCubbin fills in for Teresa & talks about how he's vegetable garden is going. He answers Listeners questions about; plants wilting after planting, planting a banana tree in a 3 ft deep pot & foxtail palm planted too close to the house. Find out Tom's Top Five Foliage plants for the Landscape.
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May 10, 2025 39 mins
Dirty Word of the Day is Kalanchoe. Teresa answers your questions about copper plant, pruning small young crepe myrtles, a traveling palm & hibiscus tree has aphids.
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May 10, 2025 39 mins
Teresa's Top Five Perfumes with a floral smell. Dana Venrick from Quality Green Specialist educates us on the different varieties of Loquat trees. Teresa answers your questions about growing an arbequina olive tree, how to know if you have webworms & what to plant.
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Difference between fungal & bacterial diseases. The importance of cleaning & sterilizing your gardening tools in-between uses. What to do to help prevent it. Teresa's favorite roses to plant. Get your answers to your questions about growing grapes, can Coral Trees grow here, nematode problems, what does 14.14.14 on fertilizers means & Hollywood Hibiscus.
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May 3, 2025 36 mins
It's National Naked Gardening Day. (1st Saturday of May) Teresa Top Five Mothers Day Plants to buy. Heat tolerate vegetables to plant this month.
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Teresa Watkins' Dirty Word of the Day, Asclepias. Our sponsor, Heather from Summer Responsible Solutions, explains their product "Deer Ban Deer Repellent" and how it works. Teresa answers your questions about blackberry primocanes, money trees, pruning a desert roses, Citrablue grass and Dichondra spreading in St Augustine grass.
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April 19, 2025 39 mins
Teresa Watkin's gives you her Top Five Easter Colored plants. Dana Venrick updates us on what to do with our fruit trees during this drought. General Federation of Women's Club's Dena Morrow chats about the Apopka Art and Foliage Festival. Wait on fertilizing you lawn. Why?
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What is wrong with our soil? Florida friendly landscape information from Tina McIntyre from UF/IFAS Extension Seminole County. Teresa's Dirty Word of the day.
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Water Conservation. What does that mean? Tina McIntyre from UF/IFAS Extension Seminole County breaks it down for us. Hear Teresa's Top Five Palms & she is answering your questions.
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