Better Lawns and Gardens

Better Lawns and Gardens Hour 2 – Coming to you from Summit Responsible Solutions Studios, Garden expert, Teresa Watkins is intrigued by her guest, garden author and podcaster Steven Biggs, Food Garden Life who describes how to have a Fall Apple Taste-Testing Party. The Dirty Word of the Day are the secret plant ingredients for a Witches Brew. Garden questions include kinds of trees that provide shade, do Mexican Fencepost cacti need to be brought in during the winter, planting a small lemon tree, non-blooming amaryllis, and more. https://bit.ly3c1f5x7How To Host An Apple Taste-testing Party! https://bit.ly/45Rp0OM Graphic and photo credit: TeresaWatkins, Steven BiggsListen every Saturdays from 7am - 9am EST on WFLA- Orlando. Call in with your garden questions and text messages on 1-888.455.2867 and 23680, Miss the live broadcast? Listen on Audioboom podcast 24/7. https://bit.ly/3c1f5x7 #WFLF #WFLA #FNN #WNDB #WDBO #BetterLawns #gardening #Florida #planting #gardeninglife #radio #southflorida #northflorida #centralflorida #Deland #SHE #Orlando #Sarasota #Miami #FortLauderdale #BLGradio #WRLN #WiOD #gardening #SummitResponsibleSolutions #QualityGreenSpecialists #BlackKow #Autumn #Fall #apples #tastetesting #fruittrees #parties #family #taste #delicious #partyactivities #fruit

Better Lawns and Gardens Hour 1 – Coming to you from Summit Responsible Solutions Studios. Garden expert Teresa Watkins chats about bats, Hunter’s Moon, and is joined by Jim Davis, UF/IFAS Extension County Director on how to have a bat-friendly landscape. Garden topics include ‘what to do in your landscape for November’,wilting heliconia, nicking calla lily seeds, declining Mandevilla, and more. https://bit.ly/3c1f5x7Graphic credit: Teresa WatkinsListen every Saturdays from 7am - 9am EST on WFLA- Orlando. Call in with your garden questions and text messages on 1-888.455.2867 and 23680, Miss the live broadcast? Listen on Audioboom podcast 24/7. https://bit.ly/3c1f5x7 #WFLF #WFLA #FNN #WNDB #WDBO #BetterLawns #gardening #Florida #planting #gardeninglife #radio #southflorida #northflorida #centralflorida #Deland #SHE #Orlando #Sarasota #Miami #FortLauderdale #BLGradio #WRLN #WiOD #gardening #SummitResponsibleSolutions #QualityGreenSpecialists #BlackKow #seeds #Halloween #bats #bat #UF #Extension

Better Lawns and Gardens Hour 2 – Coming to you from Summit Responsible Solutions Studios, Teresa is joined by award-winning podcast “Cultivating Place” host and author, Jennifer Jewell. Jennifer describes her latest work, “What We Sow: On the Personal, Ecological, and Cultural Significance of Seeds.” The book is a insightful, year-long journey exploring the outsize impact on one of nature's smallest manifestations—the simple seed. The Dirty Word of the Day is Botanophobia. Garden questions include using weed and feed, too late to use a pre-emergent herbicide, what is causing sabal palms to decline, pet pig has gored a rubber tree – will it recover, and more. https://bit.ly3c1f5x7Graphic and photo credit: TeresaWatkins, Timber Press.Listen every Saturdays from 7am - 9am EST on WFLA- Orlando. Call in with your garden questions and text messages on 1-888.455.2867 and 23680, Miss the live broadcast? Listen on Audioboom podcast 24/7. https://bit.ly/3c1f5x7 #WFLF #WFLA #FNN #WNDB #WDBO #BetterLawns #gardening #Florida #planting #gardeninglife #radio #southflorida #northflorida #centralflorida #Deland #SHE #Orlando #Sarasota #Miami #FortLauderdale #BLGradio #WRLN #WiOD #gardening #SummitResponsibleSolutions #QualityGreenSpecialists #BlackKow #seeds #seed #journal #gardenjournal #CultivatingPlace #JenniferJewell #JewellGarden #WhatWeSow #sow

Better Lawns and Gardens Hour 1 – Coming to you from Summit Responsible Solutions Studios. From the most beloved and popular book series and movies, host Teresa Watkins interviews Jim Charlier, co-author of “Harry Potter Herbology Magic: Botanical Projects, Terrariums, and Gardens Inspired by the Wizardry World.” DIY projects include beautiful Edwardian Terrariums, the Sorting Hat Hanging Basket, Cornish Pixie Air Plant cages, Deathly Hallows Trellis, and Whomping Willow Bonsai. Discussion includes Fall temperatures, the 2023 Guinness World Record largest pumpkin, and a glorious native Swamp sunflower display. Garden questions include propagating magnolia seeds, does winter kill slugs and insects, and more. https://bit.ly/3c1f5x7 Video of Swamp Sunflower, Helianthes agretis, along Lake Jesup's shoreline. https://bit.ly/3triG30 Graphic and photo credit: Insight Editions, publisher. This Old House: A Magical Garden in Buffalo. Photos of Jim Charlier's Garden. Listen every Saturdays from 7am - 9am EST on WFLA- Orlando. Call in with your garden questions and text messages on 1-888.455.2867 and 23680, Miss the live broadcast? Listen on Audioboom podcast 24/7. https://bit.ly/3c1f5x7 #WFLF #WFLA #FNN #WNDB #WDBO #BetterLawns #gardening #Florida #planting #gardeninglife #radio #southflorida #northflorida #centralflorida #Deland #SHE #Orlando #Sarasota #Miami #FortLauderdale #BLGradio #WRLN #WiOD #gardening #SummitResponsibleSolutions #QualityGreenSpecialists #BlackKow #HarryPotter #WizardryWorld #DIY #outdoorprojects #terrariums #Herbology #Herbs #Magic

Better Lawns and Gardens Hour 2 – Coming to you from Summit Responsible Solutions Studios, Garden expert Teresa Watkins keeping with the theme of Halloween has the Dirty Word of the Day is Witches Broom. Teresa is joined by The Garden Media Group President, Katie Dubow to hear the Garden Trends Report 2024. Garden questions include Planting wrong palm trees, how to cut back milkweed, cocktail tree issues, what kind of soil for celery seeds, can Barbados Cherry grow in Tallahassee, and more. https://bit.ly3c1f5x7 Graphic and photo credit: TeresaWatkins, The Garden Media Group Listen every Saturdays from 7am - 9am EST on WFLA- Orlando. Call in with your garden questions and text messages on 1-888.455.2867 and 23680, Miss the live broadcast? Listen on Audioboom podcast 24/7. https://bit.ly/3c1f5x7 #WFLF #WFLA #FNN #WNDB #WDBO #BetterLawns #gardening #Florida #planting #gardeninglife #radio #southflorida #northflorida #centralflorida #Deland #SHE #Orlando #Sarasota #Miami #FortLauderdale #BLGradio #WRLN #WiOD #gardening #SummitResponsibleSolutions #QualityGreenSpecialists #BlackKow

Better Lawns and Gardens Hour 1 – Coming to you from Summit Responsible Solutions Studios. Time to acclimate your fruit trees for the upcoming winter! Teresa Watkins and Dana Venrick owner of Quality Green Specialists Nursery discuss essentials nutrients and minerals that help fruit trees handle the stress of wintertime freezes. Teresa announces a Garden Comm Virtual Conference for anyone who would like a career in the green industry. Garden questions include assisting larger fruit production, small palm trees for privacy, what’s wrong with my plant and planting wrong palm trees., and more. https://bit.ly/3c1f5x7 Graphic and photo credit: Teresa Watkins Listen every Saturdays from 7am - 9am EST on WFLA- Orlando. Call in with your garden questions and text messages on 1-888.455.2867 and 23680, Miss the live broadcast? Listen on Audioboom podcast 24/7. https://bit.ly/3c1f5x7 #WFLF #WFLA #FNN #WNDB #WDBO #BetterLawns #gardening #Florida #planting #gardeninglife #radio #southflorida #northflorida #centralflorida #Deland #SHE #Orlando #Sarasota #Miami #FortLauderdale #BLGradio #WRLN #WiOD #gardening #SummitResponsibleSolutions #QualityGreenSpecialists #BlackKow

Better Lawns and Gardens Hour 2 – Coming to you from Summit Responsible Solutions Studios, Garden expert Teresa Watkins Dirty Word of the Day is Psithurism. Teresa discusses the macronutrients and micronutrients of fertilizer, organic versus synthetic fertilizers. Garden questions include lowering the pH of soil, moving a Sunshine Ligustrum, milkweed, and plumeria, weed and feeds, Bahia grass, why isn’t amaryllis blooming, peppers and tomatoes not producing, and more. https://bit.ly3c1f5x7 Graphic and photo credit: Teresa Watkins Listen every Saturdays from 7am - 9am EST on WFLA- Orlando. Call in with your garden questions and text messages on 1-888.455.2867 and 23680, Miss the live broadcast? Listen on Audioboom podcast 24/7. https://bit.ly/3c1f5x7 #WFLF #WFLA #FNN #WNDB #WDBO #BetterLawns #gardening #Florida #planting #gardeninglife #radio #southflorida #northflorida #centralflorida #Deland #SHE #Orlando #Sarasota #Miami #FortLauderdale #BLGradio #WRLN #WiOD #gardening #SummitResponsibleSolutions #QualityGreenSpecialists #BlackKow

Better Lawns and Gardens Hour 1 – Coming to you from Summit Responsible Solutions Studios. Teresa wishes Happy Anniversary and Happy Birthday to Tony and her granddaughter Katarina. New incredible amayrillis “Sunshine Superstar” from variety from Sunshine Farm & Gardens. With the new month of October, lots of Fall landscaping chores. Teresa answers garden questions, what to do with a county landscape citation, no rain, jacaranda trees available at Quality Green Specialists Nursery, citrus trees or Barbados Cherry tree, declining pineapple guava, and more. https://bit.ly/3c1f5x7 Available at every UF/IFAS County Extension office, Amazon, and on SoilTest website. Reserve your spot now on my “Fifty Shades of Green” Garden Tour of Ireland with Art in Bloom Garden Tours. https://bit.ly/3TalpFU Graphic and photo credit: Teresa Watkins Listen every Saturdays from 7am - 9am EST on WFLA- Orlando. Call in with your garden questions and text messages on 1-888.455.2867 and 23680, Miss the live broadcast? Listen on Audioboom podcast 24/7. https://bit.ly/3c1f5x7 #WFLF #WFLA #FNN #WNDB #WDBO #BetterLawns #gardening #Florida #planting #gardeninglife #radio #southflorida #northflorida #centralflorida #Deland #SHE #Orlando #Sarasota #Miami #FortLauderdale #BLGradio #WRLN #WiOD #gardening #SummitResponsibleSolutions #QualityGreenSpecialists #BlackKow

Better Lawns and Gardens Hour 2 – Coming to you from Summit Responsible Solutions Studios, Garden expert Teresa Watkins is joined by Randy Schultz, editor of Home Garden and Homestead. It’s mosquito season! Randy provides organic solutions that really work and the popular trend of raising chickens. Dirty Word of the Day is Autumn. Teresa discusses sharpening lawn mower blades, when to start fertilizing your lawn, and more. https://bit.ly3c1f5x7 Graphic and photo credit: TeresaWatkins, Randy Schultz Listen every Saturdays from 7am - 9am EST on WFLA- Orlando. Call in with your garden questions and text messages on 1-888.455.2867 and 23680, Miss the live broadcast? Listen on Audioboom podcast 24/7. https://bit.ly/3c1f5x7 #WFLF #WFLA #FNN #WNDB #WDBO #BetterLawns #gardening #Florida #planting #gardeninglife #radio #southflorida #northflorida #centralflorida #Deland #SHE #Orlando #Sarasota #Miami #FortLauderdale #BLGradio #WRLN #WiOD #gardening #SummitResponsibleSolutions #QualityGreenSpecialists #BlackKow

Better Lawns and Gardens Hour 1 – Coming to you from Summit Responsible Solutions Studios. With the cold front passing through, Teresa and Lizzie discuss their favorite season: Autumn. Teresa provides Fall trivia and how to plant your wildflower seeds. Garden questions include taking care of a new pitcher plant, benefits of hawks in the landscape, declining pineapple guava, rainfall amounts, fast-growing shrubs, can mangos be planted now, and more. https://bit.ly/3c1f5x7 Reserve your spot now on my “Fifty Shades of Green” Garden Tour of Ireland with Art in Bloom Garden Tours. https://bit.ly/3TalpFU Graphic and photo credit: Teresa Watkins #WFLF #WFLA #FNN #WNDB #WDBO #BetterLawns #gardening #Florida #planting #gardeninglife #radio #southflorida #northflorida #centralflorida #Deland #SHE #Orlando #Sarasota #Miami #FortLauderdale #BLGradio #WRLN #WiOD #gardening #SummitResponsibleSolutions #QualityGreenSpecialists #BlackKow

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. https://bit.ly3c1f5x7Graphic and photo credit: TeresaWatkins, Craig LeHoullierListen every Saturdays from 7am - 9am EST on WFLA- Orlando. Call in with your garden questions and text messages on 1-888.455.2867 and 23680, Miss the live broadcast? Listen on Audioboom podcast 24/7. https://bit.ly/3c1f5x7#WFLF #WFLA #FNN #WNDB #WDBO #BetterLawns #gardening #Florida #planting #gardeninglife #radio #southflorida #northflorida #centralflorida #Deland #SHE #Orlando #Sarasota #Miami #FortLauderdale #BLGradio #WRLN #WiOD #gardening #SummitResponsibleSolutions #QualityGreenSpecialists #BlackKow #tomatoes

Better Lawns and Gardens Hour 1 – Coming to you from Summit Responsible Solutions Studios. Garden expert Teresa Watkins is joined by Quality Green Specialists’ owner Dana Venrick on the perfect time of the year to plant trees in Florida. Dana provides trees that have great Fall color and how to plant a tree correctly. Teresa discusses National Indoor Plant Week and her favorite indoor plants, and answers gardening questions on black woodpeckers, planting tips for seeds in pots, nematodes, what end of the month cool weather vegetables to plant, and more. https://bit.ly/3c1f5x7 Available at every UF/IFAS County Extension office, Amazon, and on SoilTest website. Reserve your spot now on my “Fifty Shades of Green” Garden Tour of Ireland with Art in Bloom Garden Tours. https://bit.ly/3TalpFU Graphic and photo credit: Teresa Watkins #WFLF #WFLA #FNN #WNDB #WDBO #BetterLawns #gardening #Florida #planting #gardeninglife #radio #southflorida #northflorida #centralflorida #SHE #Orlando #Sarasota #Miami #FortLauderdale #BLGradio #WRLN #WiOD #gardening #SummitResponsibleSolutions #QualityGreenSpecialists #BlackKow

Better Lawns and Gardens Hour 2 – Coming to you from Summit Responsible Solutions Studios, Garden expert Teresa Watkins finds out how to save trees with with ISA certified tree arborist, Jennifer Hitchcock, owner of Orlando Tree Consulting. Dirty Word of the Day is pinch. Teresa discusses best cultural practices and turf disease identification, her favorite no-care plants she uses in her designs, and her most colorful trees for the landscape, and more. https://bit.ly3c1f5x7 Available at every UF/IFAS County Extension office, Amazon, and on SoilTest website. Through September 1, 2023, use Promo Code: UFNOW for $5 off purchase of SoilTest kit. Offer ends 09/01/2023. Reserve your spot now on my “Fifty Shades of Green” Garden Tour of Ireland with Art in Bloom Garden Tours. https://bit.ly/3TalpFU Graphic and photo credit: TeresaWatkins, Jennifer Hitchcock Listen every Saturdays from 7am - 9am EST on WFLA- Orlando. Call in with your garden questions and text messages on 1-888.455.2867 and 23680, Miss the live broadcast? Listen on Audioboom podcast 24/7. https://bit.ly/3c1f5x7 #WFLF #WFLA #FNN #WNDB #WDBO #BetterLawns #gardening #Florida #planting #gardeninglife #radio #southflorida #northflorida #centralflorida #Deland #SHE #Orlando #Sarasota #Miami #FortLauderdale #BLGradio #WRLN #WiOD #gardening #SummitResponsibleSolutions #QualityGreenSpecialists #BlackKow

Better Lawns and Gardens Hour 1 – Coming to you from Summit Responsible Solutions Studios. Garden expert Teresa Watkins interviews Quality Green Specialists’ owner Dana Venrick on maintenance required on peaches, avocados, and other fruit trees during this hot month of August. Teresa gives her August plants and chores, her favorite roses, landscape malpractice – what not to do in your landscape, and more. https://bit.ly/3c1f5x7 Available at every UF/IFAS County Extension office, Amazon, and on SoilTest website. Through September 1, 2023, use Promo Code: UFNOW for $5 off purchase of SoilTest kit. Offer ends 09/01/2023.Reserve your spot now on my “Fifty Shades of Green” Garden Tour of Ireland with Art in Bloom Garden Tours. https://bit.ly/3TalpFUGraphic and photo credit: Teresa WatkinsListen every Saturdays from 7am - 9am EST on WFLA- Orlando. Call in with your garden questions and text messages on 1-888.455.2867 and 23680, Miss the live broadcast? Listen on Audioboom podcast 24/7. https://bit.ly/3c1f5x7#WFLF #WFLA #FNN #WNDB #WDBO #BetterLawns #gardening #Florida #planting #gardeninglife #radio #southflorida #northflorida #centralflorida #Deland #SHE #Orlando #Sarasota #Miami #FortLauderdale #BLGradio #WRLN #WiOD #gardening #SummitResponsibleSolutions #QualityGreenSpecialists #BlackKow

Better Lawns and Gardens Hour 2 – Coming to you from Summit Responsible Solutions Studios, This week, garden expert Teresa Watkins's world revolves around sunflowers, her favorite sunflowers. What do you do for your 50th anniversary? Plant 1.2 million sunflowers, of course! Dirty Word of the Day is cypsela. Michelle Mueller, co-founder of Garden Light LED, in Tampa, Florida, highlights the benefits and insights of adding lighting to your landscape and garden. Teresa answers questions on Dipladenias and Blue Daze in hanging basket, growing tomatoes, Everglades tomatoes. how to get rid of sedge, spongy St. Augustine grass, and more. https://bit.ly3c1f5x7 Available at every UF/IFAS County Extension office, Amazon, and on SoilTest website. Through September 1, 2023, use Promo Code: UFNOW for $5 off purchase of SoilTest kit. Offer ends 09/01/2023.Reserve your spot now on my “Fifty Shades of Green” Garden Tour of Ireland with Art in Bloom Garden Tours. https://bit.ly/3TalpFUGraphic and photo credit: Teresa Watkins.#WFLF #WFLA #FNN #WNDB #WDBO #BetterLawns #gardening #Florida #planting #gardeninglife #radio #southflorida #northflorida #centralflorida #Deland #SHE #Orlando #Sarasota #Miami #FortLauderdale #BLGradio #WRLN #WiOD #gardening #SummitResponsibleSolutions #QualityGreenSpecialists #BlackKow

Better Lawns and Gardens Hour 1 – Coming to you from Summit Responsible Solutions Studios. Garden expert Teresa Watkins provides celestial observations happening in August. The Perseid Meteor showers, Super and Blue Moons, and how it affects doodlebugs. Teresa provides bird-friendly native species. Teresa answers garden questions about stubborn Porterweed, re-using potting soil with roots, update on Turkish fig, growing tomatoes in Earth Boxes™, what vegetables to plant in August, and more. https://bit.ly/3c1f5x7 Available at every UF/IFAS County Extension office, Amazon, and on SoilTest website. Through September 1, 2023, use Promo Code: UFNOW for $5 off purchase of SoilTest kit. Offer ends 09/01/2023. Reserve your spot now on my “Fifty Shades of Green” Garden Tour of Ireland with Art in Bloom Garden Tours. https://bit.ly/3TalpFU Graphic and photo credit: Teresa Watkins, Wikicommons #WFLF #WFLA #FNN #WNDB #WDBO #BetterLawns #gardening #Florida #planting #gardeninglife #radio #southflorida #northflorida #centralflorida #Deland #SHE #Orlando #Sarasota #Miami #FortLauderdale #BLGradio #WRLN #WiOD #gardening #SummitResponsibleSolutions #QualityGreenSpecialists #BlackKow

Better Lawns and Gardens Hour 2 – Coming to you from Summit Responsible Solutions Studios, Garden expert Teresa Watkins interviews her friend and editor of Water Gardening Journal Kathy Jentz. Dirty Word of the Day is raceme. Teresa answers questions on crapemurder, pollination flowers; fruit flies, and more. https://bit.ly3c1f5x7 Reserve your spot now on my “Fifty Shades of Green” Garden Tour of Ireland with Art in Bloom Garden Tours. Graphic and photo credit: TeresaWatkins, Jonna Michelle Listen every Saturdays from 7am - 9am EST on WFLA- Orlando. Call in with your garden questions and text messages on 1-888.455.2867 and 23680, Miss the live broadcast? Listen on Audioboom podcast 24/7. https://bit.ly/3c1f5x7 #WFLF #WFLA #FNN #WNDB #WDBO #BetterLawns #gardening #Florida #planting #gardeninglife #radio #southflorida #northflorida #centralflorida #Deland #SHE #Orlando #Sarasota #Miami #FortLauderdale #BLGradio #WRLN #WiOD #gardening #SummitResponsibleSolutions #QualityGreenSpecialists #BlackKow

Better Lawns and Gardens Hour 1 – Coming to you from Summit Responsible Solutions Studios. Garden expert Teresa Watkins celebrates National Watermelon Day and Melon Day with Bob Hochmuth, Assistant Center Director of UF/IFAS North Florida Research & Education Center. Teresa provides national statistics on the popularity of melon and Bob provides growing recommendations for the four most popular melons in Florida. Teresa and Lizzie discuss National Avocado Day. Teresa answers garden questions perennial peanut, are cherry tomatoes self-pollinating, and what to do in your garden this week, and more. https://bit.ly/3c1f5x7 Reserve your spot now on my “Fifty Shades of Green” Garden Tour of Ireland with Art in Bloom Garden Tours. Graphic and photo credit: TeresaWatkins, Wikipedia, USDA, UF/IFAS #WFLF #WFLA #FNN #WNDB #WDBO #BetterLawns #gardening #Florida #planting #gardeninglife #radio #southflorida #northflorida #centralflorida #Deland #SHE #Orlando #Sarasota #Miami #FortLauderdale #BLGradio #WRLN #WiOD #gardening #SummitResponsibleSolutions #QualityGreenSpecialists #BlackKow

Better Lawns and Gardens Hour 2 – Coming to you from Summit Responsible Solutions Studios, Garden expert Teresa Watkins expounds on dwarf tomatoes with the Dirty Word of the Day is dwarf tomato. Watkins is joined by Randy Schultz, editor and founder of Home Garden and Homestead. Randy talks about localized malaria cases in Florida and the importance of protecting your yard from hatching mosquitos. Check out Randy's "Camp Codger" podcast. How to propagate Chestnut vine, Tetrastigma voinieranum. Teresa answers gardening questions on potting an avocado growing in a glass jar, Knockout roses that aren’t doing well, caller’s remedy for mosquito bite, repotting a hanging fern, how often to water cactus, and more. https://bit.ly3c1f5x7 Victory Seed Company and the Dwarf Tomato Project. Listen every Saturdays from 7am - 9am EST on WFLA- Orlando. Call in with your garden questions and text messages on 1-888.455.2867 and 23680, Miss the live broadcast? Listen on Audioboom podcast 24/7. https://bit.ly/3c1f5x7 #WFLF #WFLA #FNN #WNDB #WDBO #BetterLawns #gardening #Florida #planting #gardeninglife #radio #southflorida #northflorida #centralflorida #Deland #SHE #Orlando #Sarasota #Miami #FortLauderdale #BLGradio #WRLN #WiOD #gardening #SummitResponsibleSolutions #QualityGreenSpecialists #BlackKow

Better Lawns and Gardens Hour 1 – Coming to you from Summit Responsible Solutions Studios. Garden expert Teresa Watkins updates her Fall garden outlook with Tony's dwarf tomato and vegetable seeds. Watkins interviews UF Associate Professor Dr. Brian Bahder about his recent research discovery for a possible solution to Lethal Bronzing which has killed tens of thousands of palm trees over the last decade. Lizzie and Teresa discuss the extreme heat the last few weeks making gardening more stressful. Teresa answers garden questions on recently installed but dying St. Augustinegrass, planting dwarf tomato seeds, and more. https://bit.ly/3c1f5x7Reserve your spot now on my “Fifty Shades of Green” Garden Tour of Ireland with Art in Bloom Garden Tours. Graphic credit: Teresa WatkinsVictory Seed Company and The Dwarf Tomato Project.Listen every Saturdays from 7am - 9am EST on WFLA- Orlando. Call in with your garden questions and text messages on 1-888.455.2867 and 23680, Miss the live broadcast? Listen on Audioboom podcast 24/7. https://bit.ly/3c1f5x7#WFLF #WFLA #FNN #WNDB #WDBO #BetterLawns #gardening #Florida #planting #gardeninglife #radio #southflorida #northflorida #centralflorida #Deland #SHE #Orlando #Sarasota #Miami #FortLauderdale #BLGradio #WRLN #WiOD #gardening #SummitResponsibleSolutions #QualityGreenSpecialists #BlackKow

Better Lawns and Gardens Hour 2 – Coming to you from Summit Responsible Solutions Studios, Garden expert Teresa Watkins is joined by Dr. Bryan Unruh, UF/IFAS West Florida Research and Education Center. Dr. Unruh announces a new and easier soil test kit for homeowners. Dr. Unruh provides benefits of soil testing annually. Available at every UF/IFAS County Extension office, Amazon, and on SoilTest website. Through September 1, 2023, use Promo Code: UFNOW for $5 off purchase of SoilTest kit. Offer ends 09/01/2023. Teresa answers gardening questions on timing of apple trees, propagating Dracaena arboreas, Gerbera daisy not blooming, , Dirty Word of the Day is naturalized, pruning leggy azaleas, and more. https://bit.ly/3c1f5x7 Listen every Saturdays from 7am - 9am EST on WFLA- Orlando. Call in with your garden questions and text messages on 1-888.455.2867 and 23680, Miss the live broadcast? Listen on Audioboom podcast 24/7. https://bit.ly/3c1f5x7 #WFLF #WFLA #FNN #WNDB #WDBO #BetterLawns #gardening #Florida #planting #gardeninglife #radio #southflorida #northflorida #centralflorida #Deland #SHE #Orlando #Sarasota #Miami #FortLauderdale #BLGradio #WRLN #WiOD #gardening #SummitResponsibleSolutions #QualityGreenSpecialists #BlackKow

Better Lawns and Gardens Hour 1 – Coming to you from Summit Responsible Solutions Studios. Garden expert Teresa Watkins is joined by Clay Wallace, head grower of Classic Caladiums to discuss the popular colorful shade plant and the annual Caladium Festival July 28th and July 29th that celebrates this wonderful tropical bulb. Clay provides his advice on growing caladiums and how to order caladium bulbs online. Teresa answers garden questions on an apple tree that is blooming in July, when do sand pears ripen, magnolia tree losing leaves and not flowering, how to stop oak trees from suckering, ugh, lubber grasshoppers, and more. https://bit.ly/3c1f5x7Chicklet Orange Trumpet Bush - Vibrant new shrub for your garden!Reserve your spot now on my “Fifty Shades of Green” Garden Tour of Ireland with Art in Bloom Garden Tours. Graphic credit: Classic Caladiums, @TeresaWatkinsFLListen every Saturdays from 7am - 9am EST on WFLA- Orlando. Call in with your garden questions and text messages on 1-888.455.2867 and 23680, Miss the live broadcast? Listen on Audioboom podcast 24/7. https://bit.ly/3c1f5x7#WFLF #WFLA #FNN #WNDB #WDBO #BetterLawns #gardening #Florida #planting #gardeninglife #radio #southflorida #northflorida #centralflorida #Deland #SHE #Orlando #Sarasota #Miami #FortLauderdale #BLGradio #WRLN #WiOD #gardening #SummitResponsibleSolutions #QualityGreenSpecialists #BlackKow

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 their planting needs. Teresa answers gardening questions on St. Augustinegrass, getting rid of and preventing crabgrass, phosophorus fertilizer, planting coreopsis, stubborn blueberries, more on Mister Lincoln roses, and more. https://bit.ly/3c1f5x7 Reserve your spot now on my “Fifty Shades of Green” Garden Tour of Ireland with Art in Bloom Garden Tours. Graphic credit: Teresa WatkinsListen every Saturdays from 7am - 9am EST on WFLA- Orlando. Call in with your garden questions and text messages on 1-888.455.2867 and 23680, Miss the live broadcast? Listen on Audioboom podcast 24/7. https://bit.ly/3c1f5x7#WFLF #WFLA #FNN #WNDB #WDBO #BetterLawns #gardening #Florida #planting #gardeninglife #radio #southflorida #northflorida #centralflorida #Deland #SHE #Orlando #Sarasota #Miami #FortLauderdale #BLGradio #WRLN #WiOD #gardening #SummitResponsibleSolutions #QualityGreenSpecialists #BlackKow

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. Teresa edited and updated the popular garden book, authored by Stephen and Karen Pategas. First published in 2011, Teresa provides new landscape plants, guidance on native planting, which invasive species to avoid, the impact of climate change for the southern coastal region, and more. Included are plants and designs for the coastal regions of Alabama, Georgia, Florida, Louisiana, Mississippi, South Carolina, and Texas. Teresa answers gardening questions on if crape myrtles rebloom, getting rid of artillery weed, thatch in St. Augustine lawns, citrus and fig tree pests, planting vegetables seeds, pruning Mister Lincoln roses, weeds, weeds, weeds, and more.. https://bit.ly/3c1f5x7 Reserve your spot now on my “Fifty Shades of Green” Garden Tour of Ireland with Art in Bloom Garden Tours. Graphic credit: Fox Chapel PublishingListen every Saturdays from 7am - 9am EST on WFLA- Orlando. Call in with your garden questions and text messages on 1-888.455.2867 and 23680, Miss the live broadcast? Listen on Audioboom podcast 24/7. https://bit.ly/3c1f5x7#WFLF #WFLA #FNN #WNDB #WDBO #BetterLawns #gardening #Florida #planting #gardeninglife #radio #southflorida #northflorida #centralflorida #Deland #SHE #Orlando #Sarasota #Miami #FortLauderdale #BLGradio #WRLN #WiOD #gardening #SummitResponsibleSolutions #QualityGreenSpecialists #BlackKow

Best of Better Lawns and Gardens with Teresa Watkins - July 4th weekend.Better Lawns and Gardens Hour 2 – Coming to you from Summit Responsible Solutions Studios, Garden expert Teresa Watkins answers questions and provides advice on planting, pruning, growing vegetables, landscape design, and pest problems. Teresa interviews the delightful, down to earth, down home, retired Extension Horticulture Specialist from the University of Tennessee. Carol Reese is a nationally-known speaker, who blends gardening knowledge, natural lore, and her quirky humor to educate and explain horticulture to her audiences. A columnist in several newspapers and a writer for gardening magazines, Carol “attributes her love of horticulture to being raised on a farm by generations of plant nuts, including a grandfather who dynamited his garden spot each spring to “break up his hard pan.” It was very cathartic to listen to Carol’s blend of instinctive and academic philosophy, Dirty Word of the Day is fenestration. Garden questions and texts include update on North Florida weather, apple varieties for the Tampa area, agreement with Carol Reese, gardenia dead branches, how to transplant a tree, fertilizing, invasives, and more. https://bit.ly/3c1f5x7Contact Carol Reese: https://bit.ly/3y1yIQV Graphic and photography credits: Carol Reese, Teresa WatkinsHorticulture magazine interviews Carol Reese. Find out what she really thinks! Listen to Better Lawns and Gardens every Saturday 7 am - 9 am EST. Call in with your garden questions 1.888.455.2867, or text 23680. #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 #2022 #gardening #fertilizer #SummitResponsibleSolutions #QualityGreenSpecialists #BlackKow #natives #CarolReese

Best of Better Lawns and Gardens with Teresa Watkins - July 4th weekend. Better Lawns and Gardens Hour 1 – Coming to you from Summit Responsible Solutions Studios, Gardening expert Teresa Watkins provides advice on when and how much to water to prevent fungal diseases in summertime turf. Have you ever thought of growing crocosmias? They are beautiful and easy to grow in Florida! Easy alternative to turf? Check out Southern Living's Pros and Cons of Clover Lawns. Gardening calls and texts include controlling weeds in Bermudagrass, invasive Bolivian sunflowers and elephant ears, pruning avocados and hibiscus, Agama lizards, olive tree blooms, and more. https://bit.ly/3c1f5x7 @SouthernLiving Pros and Cons on Growing Clover Lawns Growing Crocosmia UF EDIS Photography credits: Teresa Watkins Listen to Better Lawns and Gardens every Saturday 7 am - 9 am EST. Call in with your garden questions 1.888.455.2867, or text 23680. #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 #2022 #gardening #fertilizer #SummitResponsibleSolutions #QualityGreenSpecialists #BlackKow #gardentours #travel

Better Lawns and Gardens Hour 2 – Coming to you from Summit Responsible Solutions Studios, Garden expert Teresa Watkins announces her “Fifty Shades of Green” garden tour of Ireland July 6th – July 14th, 2024. Truth be told, all of Ireland is a garden, and some of the loveliest settings in Ireland revolve around its gardens, havens of peace and tranquility. This trip offers a horticultural feast for the eyes, framed by lush, green fields and sparkling seascapes. Come along next summer of 2024 and follow the green road to Ireland’s most enchanting gardens that include well-known gems and off -the-beaten path treasures. Teresa answers gardening questions on identification of invasive species with orange fruit, asks a listener for more information on his hydrangeas, herbicide damage to the landscape, question on life of Little Beak hot peppers, ground cover over septic tanks, how to get rid of clover in the lawn, do you need to cut back milkweed, nd more. The Dirty Word of the Day is anthophile. https://bit.ly/3c1f5x7 Reserve your spot now on my “Fifty Shades of Green” Garden Tour of Ireland with Art in Bloom Garden Tours. Graphic credit: Teresa Watkins Listen every Saturdays from 7am - 9am EST on WFLA- Orlando. Call in with your garden questions and text messages on 1-888.455.2867 and 23680, Miss the live broadcast? Listen on Audioboom podcast 24/7. https://bit.ly/3c1f5x7 #WFLF #WFLA #FNN #WNDB #WDBO #BetterLawns #gardening #Florida #planting #gardeninglife #radio #southflorida #northflorida #centralflorida #wildflowers #Deland #SHE #Orlando #Sarasota #Miami #FortLauderdale #BLGradio #WRLN #WiOD #gardening #SummitResponsibleSolutions #QualityGreenSpecialists #BlackKow #gardentour #travel #tours #Ireland #FiftyShades

Better Lawns and Gardens Hour 1 – Coming to you from Summit Responsible Solutions Studios. With summer thunder showers, flooding, and downpours, garden expert Teresa Watkins discusses the benefits of lightning for lawns and the necessity of not overwatering, Teresa tells where is the lightning capital of the United States. Teresa answers updates on daylilies color reversion, a slow-growing fig tree with suckers; large crapemyrtle not blooming; hydrangea not thriving in pots or ground, slow-bolting varieties of lettuce, and more. https://bit.ly/3c1f5x7 Graphic credit: Teresa Watkins Listen every Saturdays from 7am - 9am EST on WFLA- Orlando. Call in with your garden questions and text messages on 1-888.455.2867 and 23680, Miss the live broadcast? Listen on Audioboom podcast 24/7. https://bit.ly/3c1f5x7 #WFLF #WFLA #FNN #WNDB #WDBO #BetterLawns #gardening #Florida #planting #gardeninglife #radio #southflorida #northflorida #centralflorida #wildflowers #Deland #SHE #Orlando #Sarasota #Miami #FortLauderdale #BLGradio #WRLN #WiOD #gardening #SummitResponsibleSolutions #QualityGreenSpecialists #BlackKow #lightning #FourCorners #storms

Better Lawns and Gardens Hour 2 – Coming to you from Summit Responsible Solutions Studios,Happy Father’s Day! In honor of National Mosquito Control Week, June 19th – 25th, garden expert Teresa Watkins interviews Bill Stengel, with Summit Responsible Solutions, sponsor of Better Lawns and Gardens about keeping your Father’s Day events free of mosquitos, gnats, flies, and other yard pests. Teresa answers gardening questions on getting rid of moles in the garden, perennial groundcovers for full sun and shade, how big does citronella grow, and more. The Dirty Word of the Day is propolis. https://bit.ly/3c1f5x7 Graphic credit: Teresa WatkinsListen every Saturdays from 7am - 9am EST on WFLA- Orlando. Call in with your garden questions and text messages on 1-888.455.2867 and 23680, Miss the live broadcast? Listen on Audioboom podcast 24/7. https://bit.ly/3c1f5x7#WFLF #WFLA #FNN #WNDB #WDBO #BetterLawns #gardening #Florida #planting #gardeninglife #radio #southflorida #northflorida #centralflorida #wildflowers #Deland #SHE #Orlando #Sarasota #Miami #FortLauderdale #BLGradio #WRLN #WiOD #gardening #SummitResponsibleSolutions #QualityGreenSpecialists #BlackKow #mosquitos #gnats #pests #FathersDay

Better Lawns and Gardens Hour 1 – Coming to you from Summit Responsible Solutions Studios. Happy Father’s Day! Garden expert, Teresa Watkins provides Father’s Day suggestions for flowers, planters to give to Dad, and celebrates National Pollinator Week with CJ McCartney, Florida Wildflower Foundation director and botanizer. Teresa answers questions on daylilies color reversion, snails in the garden, cutting back an Areca palm damaged in winter, lettuce bolting, and more. https://bit.ly/3c1f5x7Lettuce that are slow-bolting: Slobolt Lettuce, Seed Saver Exchange and Butterhead 'Speckles' Lettuce Territorial Seed Company.Graphic credit: Teresa WatkinsListen every Saturdays from 7am - 9am EST on WFLA- Orlando. Call in with your garden questions and text messages on 1-888.455.2867 and 23680, Miss the live broadcast? Listen on Audioboom podcast 24/7. https://bit.ly/3c1f5x7#WFLF #WFLA #FNN #WNDB #WDBO #BetterLawns #gardening #Florida #planting #gardeninglife #radio #southflorida #northflorida #centralflorida #wildflowers #Deland #SHE #Orlando #Sarasota #Miami #FortLauderdale #BLGradio #WRLN #WiOD #gardening #SummitResponsibleSolutions #QualityGreenSpecialists #BlackKow #Pollinators #PollinatorWeek #Butterflies #Bees #FathersDay #Wildflowers

Better Lawns and Gardens Hour 2 – Coming to you from Summit Responsible Solutions Studios,Gardening expert Teresa Watkins answers gardening questions on the difference between fertilizer analyses, pruning a Giant Bird of Paradise, where to get a soil analysis, what does Teresa think of lantana, how to get rid of leaf miners organically, and more. The Dirty Word of the Day is psammophyte. https://bit.ly/3c1f5x7Find Your Local Extension Office: https://bit.ly/45XCTMz Graphic credit: Teresa WatkinsListen every Saturdays from 7am - 9am EST on WFLA- Orlando. Call in with your garden questions and text messages on 1-888.455.2867 and 23680, Miss the live broadcast? Listen on Audioboom podcast 24/7. https://bit.ly/3c1f5x7#WFLF #WFLA #FNN #WNDB #WDBO #BetterLawns #gardening #Florida #planting #gardeninglife #radio #southflorida #northflorida #centralflorida #wildflowers #Deland #SHE #Orlando #Sarasota #Miami #FortLauderdale #BLGradio #WRLN #WiOD #gardening #SummitResponsibleSolutions #QualityGreenSpecialists #BlackKow

Better Lawns and Gardens Hour 1 – Coming to you from Summit Responsible Solutions Studios. Garden expert, Teresa Watkins provides more landscape design possibilities with more ”art in the garden” photographs from the RHS Chelsea Flower Show. Lizzie discusses her beautiful summer flower and herb garden with her photos posted on Better Lawns and Gardens Facebook page. Teresa provides summer vegetables that will grow in South Florida, answers if pine trees can be transplanted, do you need to remove mangos from a young tree, can you use coffee grounds in your garden, why is Anthurium turning brown, eggnog recipes, fertilizing a Washingonia palm tree, and more. https://bit.ly/3c1f5x7Graphic credit: Teresa WatkinsListen every Saturdays from 7am - 9am EST on WFLA- Orlando. Call in with your garden questions and text messages on 1-888.455.2867 and 23680, Miss the live broadcast? Listen on Audioboom podcast 24/7. https://bit.ly/3c1f5x7#WFLF #WFLA #FNN #WNDB #WDBO #BetterLawns #gardening #Florida #planting #gardeninglife #radio #southflorida #northflorida #centralflorida #wildflowers #Deland #SHE #Orlando #Sarasota #Miami #FortLauderdale #BLGradio #WRLN #WiOD #gardening #SummitResponsibleSolutions #QualityGreenSpecialists #BlackKow

Better Lawns and Gardens Hour 2 – Coming to you from Summit Responsible Solutions Studios, Teresa is back from her tour of the Best of English Gardens and the Chelsea Flower Show. Teresa talks about her favorite gardens at Highgrove House, King Charles III’s private residence and organic farm, Hampton Court, Iford Manor, Wisley, and the Chelsea Flower Show. Teresa answers gardening questions such as the best color to pollinate plants, identification of plants, how to tell if you are overwatering, planting tomato seeds in summer, getting rid of Asian cycad scale, and more. https://bit.ly/3c1f5x7 Graphic credit: Teresa Watkins Listen every Saturdays from 7am - 9am EST on WFLA- Orlando. Call in with your garden questions and text messages on 1-888.455.2867 and 23680, Miss the live broadcast? Listen on Audioboom podcast 24/7. https://bit.ly/3c1f5x7 #WFLF #WFLA #FNN #WNDB #WDBO #BetterLawns #gardening #Florida #planting #gardeninglife #radio #southflorida #northflorida #centralflorida #wildflowers #Deland #SHE #Orlando #Sarasota #Miami #FortLauderdale #BLGradio #WRLN #WiOD #gardening #SummitResponsibleSolutions #QualityGreenSpecialists #BlackKow #England #citrus #gardentour

Better Lawns and Gardens Hour 1 – Coming to you from Summit Responsible Solutions Studios. Garden expert, Teresa Watkins discusses June maintenance for citrus with Dana Venrick, Quality Green Specialist Nursery. including foliar feeding to help citrus trees resist citrus greening. Teresa discusses her recent garden tour of the Best of English gardens and the Chelsea Flower Show, reblooming daylilies, repotting Australian Tree Fern or plant it, Dracena pups, and oyster plant decline, and more. https://bit.ly/3c1f5x7 Citrus greening solutionsGraphic credit: Teresa Watkins Listen every Saturdays from 7am - 9am EST on WFLA- Orlando. Call in with your garden questions and text messages on 1-888.455.2867 and 23680, Miss the live broadcast? Listen on Audioboom podcast 24/7. https://bit.ly/3c1f5x7 #WFLF #WFLA #FNN #WNDB #WDBO #BetterLawns #gardening #Florida #planting #gardeninglife #radio #southflorida #northflorida #centralflorida #wildflowers #Deland #SHE #Orlando #Sarasota #Miami #FortLauderdale #BLGradio #WRLN #WiOD #gardening #SummitResponsibleSolutions #QualityGreenSpecialists #BlackKow #England #citrus #gardentour

Better Lawns and Gardens Hour 2 – Coming to you from Summit Responsible Solutions Studios, Garden Host Emeritus Tom MacCubbin, is joined by Randy Schultz, editor of Home Garden and Homestead, to discuss gardening, great memories, and being a couple of codgers, and more. https://bit.ly/3c1f5x7 Graphic credit: Teresa WatkinsListen every Saturdays from 7am - 9am EST on WFLA- Orlando. Call in with your garden questions and text messages on 1-888.455.2867 and 23680, Miss the live broadcast? Listen on Audioboom podcast 24/7. https://bit.ly/3c1f5x7#WFLF #WFLA #FNN #WNDB #WDBO #BetterLawns #gardening #Florida #planting #gardeninglife #radio #southflorida #northflorida #centralflorida #wildflowers #Deland #SHE #Orlando #Sarasota #Miami #FortLauderdale #BLGradio #WRLN #WiOD #gardening #SummitResponsibleSolutions #QualityGreenSpecialists #BlackKow

Better Lawns and Gardens Hour 1 – Coming to you from Summit Responsible Solutions Studios. Host Emeritus Tom MacCubbin fills in for Teresa Watkins as she tours England. Tom discusses summer vegetable gardening with Jim Allison, long time listener and friend. Tom answers gardening questions, and more. https://bit.ly/3c1f5x7Graphic credit: Tom MacCubbinListen every Saturdays from 7am - 9am EST on WFLA- Orlando. Call in with your garden questions and text messages on 1-888.455.2867 and 23680, Miss the live broadcast? Listen on Audioboom podcast 24/7. https://bit.ly/3c1f5x7#WFLF #WFLA #FNN #WNDB #WDBO #BetterLawns #gardening #Florida #planting #gardeninglife #radio #southflorida #northflorida #centralflorida #wildflowers #Deland #SHE #Orlando #Sarasota #Miami #FortLauderdale #BLGradio #WRLN #WiOD #gardening #SummitResponsibleSolutions #QualityGreenSpecialists #BlackKow

Better Lawns and Gardens Hour 2 – Coming to you from Summit Responsible Solutions Studios, Garden expert, Teresa Watkins interviews Brian Williams, 6th grade teacher at Windy Hill Middle School about his students raised-bed vegetable and herb garden. The Dirty Word of the Day is inspired by seeing a mature 60’-tall Rainbow Eucalyptus growing in Zone 9b. Teresa answers questions on a Mother’s Day Vanda orchid, nutsedge control in Asiatic jasmine, is it a crapemyrtle bush or tree? How to transplant baby cabbage palm, how to take care of a desert rose, how to apply Azomite, what Teresa thinks of Star Anise, and more. https://bit.ly/3c1f5x7 Graphic credit: Teresa WatkinsListen every Saturdays from 7am - 9am EST on WFLA- Orlando. Call in with your garden questions and text messages on 1-888.455.2867 and 23680, Miss the live broadcast? Listen on Audioboom podcast 24/7. https://bit.ly/3c1f5x7#WFLF #WFLA #FNN #WNDB #WDBO #BetterLawns #gardening #Florida #planting #gardeninglife #radio #southflorida #northflorida #centralflorida #wildflowers #Deland #SHE #Orlando #Sarasota #Miami #FortLauderdale #BLGradio #WRLN #WiOD #gardening #SummitResponsibleSolutions #QualityGreenSpecialists #BlackKow

Better Lawns and Gardens Hour 1 – Coming to you from Summit Responsible Solutions Studios. Garden expert, Teresa Watkins learns about the importance of silica in plant nutrition, fertilizing, from Dana Venrick, Quality Green Specialist Nursery. Teresa discusses weather in the garden, native trees, drought, bluebird boxes, and more. https://bit.ly/3c1f5x7Graphic credit: Teresa WatkinsListen every Saturdays from 7am - 9am EST on WFLA- Orlando. Call in with your garden questions and text messages on 1-888.455.2867 and 23680, Miss the live broadcast? Listen on Audioboom podcast 24/7. https://bit.ly/3c1f5x7#WFLF #WFLA #FNN #WNDB #WDBO #BetterLawns #gardening #Florida #planting #gardeninglife #radio #southflorida #northflorida #centralflorida #wildflowers #Deland #SHE #Orlando #Sarasota #Miami #FortLauderdale #BLGradio #WRLN #WiOD #gardening #SummitResponsibleSolutions #QualityGreenSpecialists #BlackKow

Better Lawns and Gardens Hour 2 – Coming to you from Summit Responsible Solutions Studios, Garden expert, Teresa Watkins interviews Heidi Mortensen, Star® Roses and Plants’ Rose Portfolio Manager introduces the new Bloomables and Scentables roses . The Dirty Word of the Day isn’t about World Naked Garden Day. Teresa answers questions on Drift roses, planting a concrete bird bath, difficult natal plum, gardenias for Zone 6, a declining Norfolk Island tree, and more. https://bit.ly/3c1f5x7 Graphic credit: Star® Roses and Plants, Teresa Watkins Listen every Saturdays from 7am - 9am EST on WFLA- Orlando. Call in with your garden questions and text messages on 1-888.455.2867 and 23680, Miss the live broadcast? Listen on Audioboom podcast 24/7. https://bit.ly/3c1f5x7 #WFLF #WFLA #FNN #WNDB #WDBO #BetterLawns #gardening #Florida #planting #gardeninglife #radio #southflorida #northflorida #centralflorida #wildflowers #Deland #SHE #Orlando #Sarasota #Miami #FortLauderdale #BLGradio #WRLN #WiOD #gardening #SummitResponsibleSolutions #QualityGreenSpecialists #BlackKow #flowers #wildflowers #coronation #UnitedKingdom #KingCharlesIII #Bloomables #Scentables #roses

Better Lawns and Gardens Hour 1 – Coming to you from Summit Responsible Solutions Studios. On the joyous occasion of King Charles III coronation and World Naked Gardening Day, the festivities begin with garden expert, Teresa Watkins interviewing Teresa Woodard, co-author of “American Roots: Lessons and Inspiration from the Designers Reimagining Our Home Gardens.” Teresa provides some of the ceremonial floral decorations selected by King Charles III and Queen Camilla, and answers garden questions on accidental use of herbicide, a declining Norfolk Island Pine tree, what to do in the landscape in May, and more. https://bit.ly/3c1f5x7Graphic credit: Teresa WatkinsListen every Saturdays from 7am - 9am EST on WFLA- Orlando. Call in with your garden questions and text messages on 1-888.455.2867 and 23680, Miss the live broadcast? Listen on Audioboom podcast 24/7. https://bit.ly/3c1f5x7#WFLF #WFLA #FNN #WNDB #WDBO #BetterLawns #gardening #Florida #planting #gardeninglife #radio #southflorida #northflorida #centralflorida #wildflowers #Deland #SHE #Orlando #Sarasota #Miami #FortLauderdale #BLGradio #WRLN #WiOD #gardening #SummitResponsibleSolutions #QualityGreenSpecialists #BlackKow #flowers #wildflowers #coronation #UnitedKingdom #KingCharlesIII #AmericanRoots #landscapedesign #books

Better Lawns and Gardens Hour 2 – Coming to you from Summit Responsible Solutions Studios, Garden expert, Teresa Watkins talks with organic and edible flowers chef and baker, Loria Stern about her new cookbook “Eat Your Flowers.” Loria creates brilliantly-colored flower recipes. Teresa discusses what to do in your landscape for the month of May, tomato issues, what thatch is, animal repellents, and the difference between overwatering and growing plants hydroponically, and more. https://bit.ly/3c1f5x7 Loria’s Edible Flower Guide (downloadable pdf) Animal repellents: Plantskydd Graphic credit: Loria Stern, Teresa Watkins Listen every Saturdays from 7am - 9am EST on WFLA- Orlando. Call in with your garden questions and text messages on 1-888.455.2867 and 23680, Miss the live broadcast? Listen on Audioboom podcast 24/7. https://bit.ly/3c1f5x7 #WFLF #WFLA #FNN #WNDB #WDBO #BetterLawns #gardening #Florida #planting #gardeninglife #radio #southflorida #northflorida #centralflorida #wildflowers #Deland #SHE #Orlando #Sarasota #Miami #FortLauderdale #BLGradio #WRLN #WiOD #gardening #SummitResponsibleSolutions #QualityGreenSpecialists #BlackKow #flowers #wildflowers #edible #organic #cooking #cookbook #eatyourflowers #loriastern

Better Lawns and Gardens Hour 1 – Coming to you from Summit Responsible Solutions Studios. Garden expert, Teresa Watkins interviews Dr. Matt Borden, Bartlett Tree Experts, about diagnosing insect and disease problems in the landscape. Dr. Borden lays out how to determine what’s wrong with your plants and the next pest problem to be an issue for Florida. Teresa provides what to do in your landscape for May, and solutions for rabbits in the garden, and more. https://bit.ly/3c1f5x7Graphic credit: Teresa Watkins, Matt BordenNew pest to look for: Thrips parvispinus. Listen every Saturdays from 7am - 9am EST on WFLA- Orlando. Call in with your garden questions and text messages on 1-888.455.2867 and 23680, Miss the live broadcast? Listen on Audioboom podcast 24/7. https://bit.ly/3c1f5x7#WFLF #WFLA #FNN #WNDB #WDBO #BetterLawns #gardening #Florida #planting #gardeninglife #radio #southflorida #northflorida #centralflorida #wildflowers #Deland #SHE #Orlando #Sarasota #Miami #FortLauderdale #BLGradio #WRLN #WiOD #gardening #SummitResponsibleSolutions #QualityGreenSpecialists #BlackKow #pests #plantdisease #plantpathology #trees #arboriculture #BartlettTreeResearch #MattBorden

Better Lawns and Gardens Hour 2 – Coming to you from Summit Responsible Solutions Studios, Garden expert, Teresa Watkins is joined by Randy Schultz, editor of Home Garden and Homestead and cohost of Camp Codger Podcast, to talk about how to prevent mosquitos in the landscape. Sharon Fisher, Foliage co-chairwoman provides details on Apopka’s 61st Foliage and Art Festival is April 29th. Callers help with cedar waxwings, Blueberry and Blue Grass Festival. Teresa answers gardening questions on nun’s orchids, gardenia, thoughts on mosquito-repellent plants, squirrels eating sunflowers, lubber grasshoppers, and more. https://bit.ly/3c1f5x7 Graphic credit: Teresa Watkins, Summit Responsible Solutions. Photo – M. Waldvogel, NCSU Photo: By Alvesgaspar - Own work, CC BY-SA 3.0, Listen every Saturdays from 7am - 9am EST on WFLA- Orlando. Call in with your garden questions and text messages on 1-888.455.2867 and 23680, Miss the live broadcast? Listen on Audioboom podcast 24/7. https://bit.ly/3c1f5x7 #WFLF #WFLA #FNN #WNDB #WDBO #BetterLawns #gardening #Florida #planting #gardeninglife #radio #southflorida #northflorida #centralflorida #wildflowers #Deland #SHE #Orlando #Sarasota #Miami #FortLauderdale #BLGradio #WRLN #WiOD #gardening #SummitResponsibleSolutions #QualityGreenSpecialists #BlackKow #mosquitos #mosquitodunks #repellents

Better Lawns and Gardens Hour 1 – Coming to you from Summit Responsible Solutions Studios. Celebrating Arbor Day, garden expert Teresa Watkins interviews Eva Monheim, horticulturist, certified arborist, and host of award-winning “The Plant A Trillion Trees Podcast.” Eva talks about the Miyawaki method of growing a forest in 20 to 30 years versus 100 to 200 years. Teresa wonders what ate her blueberries, gardening weather, mid-size tree choices, lawn of clover, and more. https://bit.ly/3c1f5x7Graphic credit: Wikicommons, The Plant a Trillion Trees Podcast, Teresa WatkinsListen every Saturdays from 7am - 9am EST on WFLA- Orlando. Call in with your garden questions and text messages on 1-888.455.2867 and 23680, Miss the live broadcast? Listen on Audioboom podcast 24/7. https://bit.ly/3c1f5x7#WFLF #WFLA #FNN #WNDB #WDBO #BetterLawns #gardening #Florida #planting #gardeninglife #radio #southflorida #northflorida #centralflorida #wildflowers #Deland #SHE #Orlando #Sarasota #Miami #FortLauderdale #BLGradio #WRLN #WiOD #gardening #SummitResponsibleSolutions #QualityGreenSpecialists #BlackKow #trees #ArborDay #planting #trilliontrees #MiyawakiMethod #forests #EarthDay

Better Lawns and Gardens Hour 2 – Coming to you from Summit Responsible Solutions Studios, Need an exciting garden weekend? Head to Memphis, Tennessee, for the Cooper-Young Garden Walk, May 20th and May 21st, sponsored by Urban Earth Nursery. Garden expert and host Teresa Watkins is joined by Founder Kim Halyak to discuss a wonderful festival with over 100 private and botanical gardens in the city that’s the birthplace of the Blues, Elvis, and the Civil Rights movement. The beauty of Tennessee gardens surrounded by quaint and historic architecture makes this a wonderful experience. Teresa answers gardening questions on transplanting and propagating plumeria, declining magnolia, and advice on using landscape fabric, and more. https://bit.ly/3c1f5x7 Graphic credit: Cooper-Young Garden Walk, Teresa WatkinsListen every Saturdays from 7am - 9am EST on WFLA- Orlando. Call inh with your garden questions and text messages on 1-888.455.2867 and 23680, Miss the live broadcast? Listen on Audioboom podcast 24/7. https://bit.ly/3c1f5x7#WFLF #WFLA #FNN #WNDB #WDBO #BetterLawns #gardening #Florida #planting #gardeninglife #radio #southflorida #northflorida #centralflorida #wildflowers #Deland #SHE #Orlando #Sarasota #Miami #FortLauderdale #BLGradio #WRLN #WiOD #gardening #SummitResponsibleSolutions #QualityGreenSpecialists #BlackKow #theblues #Memphis #Tennessee #gardenwalk #gardenclub #festivals #architecture #gardentour

Better Lawns and Gardens Hour 1 – Coming to you from Summit Responsible Solutions Studios. April is Water Conservation Month and garden expert, Teresa Watkins is joined by Robert Beall, Operation Manager for the City of Sanford Parks and Recreation Department, on ways to conserve water indoors and outdoors. Teresa discusses record-breaking rainfall and heat, El Nino prediction for 2023, what to do in your landscape during April, lubber grasshoppers, different varieties of lavender, including ‘Phenomenal’ lavender, and more. https://bit.ly/3c1f5x7Graphic credit: Teresa WatkinsListen every Saturdays from 7am - 9am EST on WFLA- Orlando. Call inh with your garden questions and text messages on 1-888.455.2867 and 23680, Miss the live broadcast? Listen on Audioboom podcast 24/7. https://bit.ly/3c1f5x7#WFLF #WFLA #FNN #WNDB #WDBO #BetterLawns #gardening #Florida #planting #gardeninglife #radio #southflorida #northflorida #centralflorida #wildflowers #Deland #SHE #Orlando #Sarasota #Miami #FortLauderdale #BLGradio #WRLN #WiOD #gardening #SummitResponsibleSolutions #QualityGreenSpecialists #BlackKow #waterconservation #water #April

Better Lawns and Gardens Hour 2 – Coming to you from Summit Responsible Solutions Studios, Teresa and Lizzie wish a Happy Easter, Passover, and Ramadan, to all their listeners. Teresa interviews Shelley Cramm, vivacious author of devotions for “God’s Word for Gardeners Bible, Growing Your Faith While You Garden,” and faith-based botanical blogger on her newest book, “My Father is the Gardener.” The Dirty Word of the Day is etiolation. Teresa answers gardening questions on preventing suckers under a live oak, ants on a Powderpuff mimosa, what is the difference between commercial and homeowner fertilizers, applying Osmocote, 3-year-old lemon tree, and more. https://bit.ly/3c1f5x7 Graphic credit: Teresa Watkins Listen every Saturdays from 7am - 9am EST on WFLA- Orlando. Call inh with your garden questions and text messages on 1-888.455.2867 and 23680, Miss the live broadcast? Listen on Audioboom podcast 24/7. https://bit.ly/3c1f5x7 #WFLF #WFLA #FNN #WNDB #WDBO #BetterLawns #gardening #Florida #planting #gardeninglife #radio #southflorida #northflorida #centralflorida #wildflowers #Deland #SHE #Orlando #Sarasota #Miami #FortLauderdale #BLGradio #WRLN #WiOD #gardening #SummitResponsibleSolutions #QualityGreenSpecialists #BlackKow #book #Bible #proverbs #Scripture #Easter

Better Lawns and Gardens Hour 1 – Coming to you from Summit Responsible Solutions Studios. Garden expert, Teresa Watkins celebrates a beautiful Spring holiday weekend and April is Water Conservation Month with Jo Reese, Mister Landscaper drip irrigation. With Florida snowbirds going back North for the summer, bird baths still need filled, hanging baskets need watered, Mister Landscaper drip irrigation provides water for feathered friends while conserving water. Teresa discusses Pine tree crosses at Easter, provides answers to gardening questions about pruning Panama rose shrub, admires fragrant gardens, what to do with declining daffodils, and more. https://bit.ly/3c1f5x7Graphic credit: Mister Landscaper, Teresa WatkinsListen every Saturdays from 7am - 9am EST on WFLA- Orlando. Call inh with your garden questions and text messages on 1-888.455.2867 and 23680, Miss the live broadcast? Listen on Audioboom podcast 24/7. https://bit.ly/3c1f5x7#WFLF #WFLA #FNN #WNDB #WDBO #BetterLawns #gardening #Florida #planting #gardeninglife #radio #southflorida #northflorida #centralflorida #wildflowers #Deland #SHE #Orlando #Sarasota #Miami #FortLauderdale #BLGradio #WRLN #WiOD #gardening #SummitResponsibleSolutions #QualityGreenSpecialists #BlackKow #irrigation #dripirrigation #waterconservation #birds #water #conservation #hangingbaskets #raisedbed #vegetable #kits

Better Lawns and Gardens Hour 2 – Coming to you from Summit Responsible Solutions Studios. Garden expert, Teresa Watkins is amazed that despite the lack of Spring rains, Summer-like temperatures, Leah Brooks is still harvesting Winter vegetables. Leah explains the benefits of growing edibles in a Tower Garden. Teresa provides answers and solutions to finding green bean transplants, Firebush alternatives, tomato and eggplant decline, extending the life of cilantro, when to discard cherry tomatoes, how to grow pineapples, and more.Get your free Plant Delights Spring catalog! Graphic credit: Teresa WatkinsListen every Saturdays from 7am - 9am EST on WFLA- Orlando. Call inh with your garden questions and text messages on 1-888.455.2867 and 23680, Miss the live broadcast? Listen on Audioboom podcast 24/7. https://bit.ly/3c1f5x7#WFLF #WFLA #FNN #WNDB #WDBO #BetterLawns #gardening #Florida #planting #gardeninglife #radio #southflorida #northflorida #centralflorida #wildflowers #Deland #SHE #Orlando #Sarasota #Miami #FortLauderdale #BLGradio #WRLN #WiOD #gardening #SummitResponsibleSolutions #QualityGreenSpecialists #BlackKow #TowerGarden #LeahBrooks #edibles #food #vegetables

Better Lawns and Gardens Hour 1 – Coming to you from Summit Responsible Solutions Studios. Garden expert, Teresa Watkins learns about Florida’s Gopher Tortoise Day on April 10th with Dr. Kate Richardson, with the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission. More important than butterfly gardens, Florida residents need to restore gopher tortoises habitat and food resources. Get your yard recognized for being gopher tortoise-friendly! Teresa provides answers and solutions to garden questions on tree cattle, cocktail trees, pruning sago palms, and more. https://bit.ly/3c1f5x7 Get your free Plant Delights Spring catalog! Graphic credit: Teresa Watkins#WFLF #WFLA #FNN #WNDB #WDBO #BetterLawns #gardening #Florida #planting #gardeninglife #radio #southflorida #northflorida #centralflorida #wildflowers #Deland #SHE #Orlando #Sarasota #Miami #FortLauderdale #BLGradio #WRLN #WiOD #gardening #SummitResponsibleSolutions #QualityGreenSpecialists #BlackKow #gophertortoises #keystonespecies