Better Lawns and Gardens

Better Lawns and Gardens Hour 2 – Coming to you from Summit Responsible Solutions Studios, Host and garden expert, Teresa Watkins is joined by two gardening experts, Sally Cunningham, author of “Buffalo Style Gardens” to discuss Teresa’s Brandywine Garden Extravaganza Tour, and Lance Walheim, author of the “Citrus” and “Growing Roses for Dummies” series. Garden questions and texts include cutting back hibiscus, is winter over?, freeze-damaged Hawaiian Ti and Siberian iris, Honeybell citrus tree bark falling off, crapemyrtle moss, milkweed aphids local source for 'Rhythym and Blues' Salvia, and more. https://bit.ly/3c1f5x7 Graphic credit: Teresa Watkins Must have on your garden bookshelf! Buffalo Style Gardens and Citrus. 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 #southflorida #northflorida #centralflorida #tropical #floridalife #SHE #fertilizer #turf #grass #landscaping #fruits #vegetables #Orlando #Sarasota #Miami #FortLauderdale #winter #WRLN #WiOD #WBOB #radio #podcast #UF #IFAS #GardenWalkBuffalo #citrus #winter #SummitResponsibleSolutions

Better Lawns and Gardens Hour 1 – Coming to you from Summit Responsible Solutions Studios, Host and garden expert, Teresa Watkins discusses how growing and propagating African violets with Glenna Hancock, daughter of Walter “Buster” Hancock of the historic five-generation agricultural Hancock citrus groves. Glenna tells the simple method of propagating African violets. Garden questions and texts covered asking where to buy African violets, soil for growing vegetables in containers, cutting back hibiscus, using oak leaves for compost, identifying a shrub at Sea World, what is the best soil test kit, and more. https://bit.ly/3c1f5x7 Graphic credit: Teresa Watkins Must have on your garden bookshelf! Buffalo Style Gardens and Citrus. 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 #southflorida #northflorida #centralflorida #tropical #floridalife #SHE #fertilizer #turf #grass #landscaping #fruits #vegetables #Orlando #Sarasota #Miami #FortLauderdale #winter #WRLN #WiOD #WBOB #radio #podcast #UF #IFAS #GardenWalkBuffalo #citrus #winter #SummitResponsibleSolutions

Better Lawns and Gardens Hour 2 – Coming to you from Summit Responsible Solutions Studios, Host and garden expert, Teresa Watkins discusses Southern Gardening in Florida and Mississippi Zones 8, 9, 10, 11. Dr. Gary Bachman, author of "Southern Gardening - All Year Round" in the house! Teresa gave a Florida memento to Gary, Lizzie, and Melissa, a rare Philodendron "Birkin" plant., which is so beautifully green, cream, yellow, and red striped, that it's was named after the ultimate and expensive BIrkin bags. Garden questions and texts include when to lay St. Augustinegrass sod, "Little John" Bottlebrush shrubs, mulching, best varieties for tomato containers, daylilies, and more. https://bit.ly/3c1f5x7Graphic credit: Teresa WatkinsPhilodendron "Birkin" by Costa Farms. Get your copy of Southern Gardening - All Year RoundListen 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 #southflorida #northflorida #centralflorida #tropical #floridalife #SHE #fertilizer #turf #grass #landscaping #fruits #vegetables #Orlando #Sarasota #Miami #FortLauderdale #winter #WRLN #WiOD #radio #podcast #UF #IFAS #Extension #MSU #Mississippi #SouthernGardening #SummitResponsibleSolutions

Better Lawns and Gardens Hour 1 – Coming to you from Summit Responsible Solutions Studios, Host and garden expert, Teresa Watkins is excited to have Dr. Gary Bachman, author of "Southern Gardening - All Year Round" in the house! Celebrating Black History Month, we interviewed Rae Chesny on her book, "Dear Zora" about local author and icon, Zora Neale Hurston. Garden questions and texts covered fertilizing pineapples, Sunshine ligustrums, viable vegetable seeds, are bottlebrush weepy or happy, garden gremlins, plumeria after a freeze, how to get rid of mushrooms, and more. https://bit.ly/3c1f5x7 Graphic credit: Teresa WatkinsGet your copy of Dear Zora!Get your copy of Southern Gardening - All Year RoundListen 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 #southflorida #northflorida #centralflorida #tropical #floridalife #SHE #fertilizer #turf #grass #landscaping #fruits #vegetables #Orlando #Sarasota #Miami #FortLauderdale #winter #WRLN #WiOD #radio #podcast #UF #IFAS #ZoraNealeHurston #SouthernGardening #SummitResponsibleSolutions

Better Lawns and Gardens Hour 2 – Valentine's Day weekend with Randy Schultz, editor of HomeGardenandHomestead, the best garden website in the Plant Kingdom. Teresa provides more Valentine's Day trivia which has Lizzie gagging. Randy announces the National Garden Bureau's 2022 Green Thumb Award winners. Garden questions and texts include: yellowing gardenias, variegated hibiscus reverting, herbs getting woody, dogs eating kumquats, freeze-damaged trees and parrot flowers, and more. https://bit.ly/3c1f5x7 Graphic 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 #winter #freeze #greenthumb #awards #NGB #gardening #SummitResponsibleSolutions

Better Lawns and Gardens Hour 1 – Coming to you from Summit Responsible Solutions Studios, Host Teresa Watkins provides plenty of Valentine's Day trivia much to Lizzie's chagrin and announces the new restaurant River and Fort opening in St. Augustine. her son Derrick is the Chef. Check it out! Does your citrus look a little rough from the freeze? Dana Venrick, Quality Green Specialist Nursery explains what to do to help your citrus recover. Dana also provides details on the Florida Wildflower Festival on March 26th. Did you know Deland is the first city in Florida to be designated a Monarch City USA? Garden questions and texts include how to keep your green onions growing, what is a sweet kumquat variety, identify a plant that is called "pigs in a blanket", freeze-damaged tibouchina, bird of Paradise, and more. https://bit.ly/3c1f5x7 Graphic credit: 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 #southflorida #northflorida #centralflorida #tropical #floridalife #SHE #fertilizer #turf #grass #landscaping #fruits #vegetables #Orlando #Sarasota #Miami #FortLauderdale #winter #WRLN #WiOD #radio #podcast #UF #IFAS #winterrecovery #SummitResponsibleSolutions #citrus #Deland #wildflowers

Better Lawns and Gardens Hour 2 – Garden author and designer, Jana Milbocker is coming to Florida! Teresa and Jana discuss her newest book in The Garden Tourist series, The Garden Tourist's Florida: A Guide to 80 Tropical Gardens in the Sunshine State Check out Jana's list and her book signing dates! Garden questions and texts include will Thunbergia grandiflora die from freeze, trimming oak, Christmas cactus, what to do with plants that will be affected by bleach from new hardscape installation, plant identification of long, brown, seed pods, Teresa's brain freeze, (Yes, it's a Plumeria), what vegetables to plant in February, and more. https://bit.ly/3c1f5x7 Graphic credits: Teresa WatkinsListen 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 #gardentour #travel #TheGardenTourist #janamilbocker #SummitResponsibleSolutions

Better Lawns and Gardens, Florida's most popular gardening show with gardening expert Teresa Watkins. www.betterlawns.com Better Lawns and Gardens Hour 1 – Coming to you from Summit Responsible Solutions Studios, Better Lawns and Gardens host Teresa Watkins is joined by Tina McIntyre, Seminole County Florida-friendly Landscaping agent to discuss winter recovery and what to do in your yard for February. Lizzie has new show Connections with Melissa Foxx and others. Teresa provides Florida trees that flower in February. Garden questions and texts include best type of grass seed to sow in Polk County, how to root wisteria from a cutting, what to do with removing a shrub growing in an oak, can Hawaaiian tis be cut back now, sago palm pups, and more. https://bit.ly/3c1f5x7 Graphic credit: 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 #southflorida #northflorida #centralflorida #tropical #floridalife #SHE #fertilizer #turf #grass #landscaping #fruits #vegetables #Orlando #Sarasota #Miami #FortLauderdale #winter #WRLN #WiOD #radio #podcast #UF #IFAS #winterrecovery #SummitResponsibleSolutions #Lizziesaidwhat

Better Lawns and Gardens Hour 2 – Teresa discusses with @KipMcconnell all of the new shrubs and plants that can be used for @Pantone‘s Color of the Year 2022, ‘Very Peri.’ Learn about the Southern Living Plant Collection and the Sunset Collection. Garden questions and texts include coldest temperatures this winter, safflower seeds, lemon tree and gardenia protection, Asian seed catalog, and more. https://bit.ly/3c1f5x7 Asian Seed Catalog: Kitazawaseed https://kitazawaseed.com/ Graphic credits: Teresa WatkinsListen 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 #winter #SummitResponsibleSolutions #mosquitos #QualityGreenSpecialists #Facebook #SouthernLivingPlantCollecton #SunsetCollection #Pantone #ColoroftheYear #VeryPeri

Better Lawns and Gardens Hour 1 – National Seed Swapping Day. Coming to you from Summit Responsible Solutions Studios, Garden expert and host Teresa Watkins talks with Kathy Jentz, editor of Washington Gardener Magazine and founder of National Seed Swapping Day, on the benefits and fun of swapping seeds. Garden questions and texts include cold winter protection for landscape plants, foxtail ferns, plumeria, roses, poinsettia, squirrels and bird feeders, shrub identification, and much more. Where is Williston, Florida? Youtube video of how to start swapping seeds: https://bit.ly/3raUyhu Graphic 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 #winter #SummitResponsibleSolutions #mosquitos #QualityGreenSpecialists #Facebook #seedswapping #seeds #holiday

Better Lawns and Gardens Hour 2 – Coming to you from Summit Responsible Solutions Studios, Better Lawns and Gardens host Teresa Watkins is amazed at the winter harvest with Leah Brooks' Tower Gardens. Teresa discusses winter maintenance and varieties of winter vegetables and fruits you can grow with cooler temperatures. Garden questions and texts include eradicating coral ardesia, growing bonsai on a boat, how much water thyme needs, how to collect lettuce seeds after bolting, and more. https://bit.ly/3c1f5x7 Photo Credit: Leah Brooks, Graphic: 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 #TowerGarden #edibles #SummitResponsibleSolutions

Better Lawns and Gardens Hour 1 – Celebrating Florida Arbor Day. Coming to you from Summit Responsible Solutions Studios, Garden expert and host Teresa Watkins and Quality Green Specialists Nursery owner, Dave Venrick discuss the reasons and the best way to plant trees in January. Garden questions and texts include poinsettia care during a freeze, using coffee filters for pots, cutting back gingers, protecting orchids with frost blanket, oak tree id, northern trees in bloom in Tallahassee, and much more. https://bit.ly/3c1f5x7 You can visit Quality Green Specialists at 335 W. Michigan Avenue, Deland, FL 32720 Photo Credit: 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 #winter #ArborDay #trees #natives #QualityGreenSpecialists #Facebook

Better Lawns and Gardens Hour 2 – Better Lawns and Gardens host Teresa Watkins talks with Cynthia Brian, actor, author, speaker, TV/Radio personality, lifestyle professional, spokesperson, coach, philanthropist, Goddess gardener about StarStyle, fulfilment, joy, rejuvenation, and growing your soul in the garden. Your garden questions and texts include growing hostas and hydrangeas, fireweed, ants in a water oak, worms, growth on a fig tree, insecticide for edibles, and more. https://bit.ly/3fr6SU2 Photo Credit: Cynthia Brian, Star Style, Be The Star You Are Cynthia Brian's Books 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 #NewYearsDay #HNY #2022 #winter #StarStyle #CynthiaBrian #BeTheStarYouAre #GoddessGardener #ChickenSoupForTheSoul

Better Lawns and Gardens Hour 1 – First show of 2022. Better Lawns and Gardens host Teresa Watkins and producer Lizzie Steele discuss their holidays and Teresa's incredible visit to the Isabella Stewart Gardner museum . It's also celebrate National Houseplant Day, January 10th, so Teresa highlights a few ways, courtesy of Apartment Therapy. Garden questions and texts include when to fertilize azaleas, getting rid of dollar weed, and what to do in the month of January in your backyard. https://bit.ly/3fr6SU2 Photo Credit: 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 #NewYearsDay #HNY #2022 #winter #Boston #museum #IsabellaStewartGardnerMuseum #gardenart #paintings #GardnerHeist #art #sculpture

Better Lawns and Gardens Hour 1 – Happy New Year! Two Hour Special! Better Lawns and Gardens host Teresa Watkins is joined by Tom MacCubbin, the original host emeritus of Better Lawns and Gardens, producer Lizzie Steele, and Homegardenhomestead 's Randy Schultz, to talk about their holidays, favorite new plants, most common garden questions asked, 2022 garden predictions, and more. https://bit.ly/3fr6SU2 Photo Credit: Teresa Watkins, Creative Commons 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 #NewYearsDay #HNY #2022 #resolutions #RandySchultz #homegardenhomestead #winter

Better Lawns and Gardens Hour 1 – Happy New Year! Two Hour Special! Better Lawns and Gardens host Teresa Watkins is joined by Tom MacCubbin, the original host emeritus of Better Lawns and Gardens, producer Lizzie Steele, and "Gardening for Dummies" expert, Lance Walheim, to talk about their holidays, reminisce 2021 garden highlights, including Tom's retirement, everyone's 2022 New Year's goals. https://bit.ly/3fr6SU2 Photo Credit: Teresa Watkins, Creative Commons 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 #NewYearsDay #HNY #2022 #resolutions #LanceWalheim #winter

Better Lawns and Gardens Hour 2 - Garden expert, Teresa Watkins interviews Sally Stein, Director of Public Programs for Audubon.org on the Christmas Bird Count. Dirty Word of the Day describes colorful foliage leaves that aren't the flowers. Garden calls and texts include how to grow potatoes from their eyes, and pruning mulberry hedges, and more. https://bit.ly/3tfLgAdSubscribe to my free monthly gardening newsletter: In Your Backyard.Graphic and photograph credits: Teresa Watkins, Yellow-bellied Sapsucker, Audubon.orgJoin Teresa on the amazing Brandywine Garden Extravaganza Tour June 13 - 17, 2021.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 #southflorida #northflorida #centralflorida #tropical #floridalife #SHE #landscaping #fruits #vegetables #Orlando #Sarasota #Miami #FortLauderdale #WRLN #WiOD #radio #podcast #winter #Christmas #CBC #Birds

Better Lawns and Gardens Hour 1 – Would you like to grow Northern annual flowers in your garden? Teresa Watkins, host of Better Lawns and Gardens discusses with Tom MacCubbin, Host emeritus, how to grow sweet alyssum, delphiniums, foxgloves, hollyhocks, pansies, and other beautiful Northern blooms in your tropical garden. Gardening calls and texts include getting a mango to bloom, proper soil conditions for herbs, pruning vibrunum hedges to prevent "bare-bottom syndrome," and more. bit.ly/3c1f5x7 Subscribe to my free monthly gardening newsletter: In Your Backyard. Join Teresa on her Brandywine Garden Extravaganza Tour June 13 - 17, 2021! Graphic 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 #southflorida #northflorida #centralflorida #tropical #floridalife #SHE #landscaping #fruits #vegetables #Orlando #Sarasota #Miami #FortLauderdale #WRLN #WiOD #radio #podcast #winter #annuals

Better Lawns and Gardens Hour 2 - Garden Expert, Teresa Watkins, interviews Houseplant Guru and award-winning garden author, Lisa Eldred Steinkopf, on Winter-blooming houseplants. Dirty Word of the Day describes the perfect climate for fruit trees! Garden calls and texts include why perennial hibiscus is dying, or is it, citrus trees not blooming or fruiting, are poinsettias toxic to cats, is Para'kito safe for pets, Florida snow weed, and more. https://bit.ly/3tfLgAd Subscribe to my free monthly gardening newsletter: In Your Backyard. Graphic credits: Teresa Watkins, Join Teresa on the amazing Brandywine Garden Extravaganza Tour June 13 - 17, 2021. 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 #southflorida #northflorida #centralflorida #tropical #floridalife #SHE #landscaping #fruits #vegetables #Orlando #Sarasota #Miami #FortLauderdale #WRLN #WiOD #books #radio #podcast #winter #Christmas #winter #flowers

Better Lawns and Gardens Hour 1 – Gardening expert Teresa Watkins discusses the record high temperatures for December, Perfecto Mundo azaleas, Pantone's new color of the year for 2022. Producer Lizzie Steele admits she's almost ready for Christmas. Dana Venrick, owner of Quality Green Specialists, advises on winter protection of fruit trees. Gardening calls and texts include Para'kito insect repellent, pruning hibiscus in winter, care of amaryllis, how to get poinsettias to survive in winter, and more. bit.ly/3c1f5x7 Subscribe to my free monthly gardening newsletter: In Your Backyard.Join Teresa on her Brandywine Garden Extravaganza Tour June 13 - 17, 2021!Graphic credits: Teresa WatkinsListen 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 #southflorida #northflorida #centralflorida #tropical #floridalife #SHE #landscaping #fruits #vegetables #Orlando #Sarasota #Miami #FortLauderdale #WRLN #WiOD #radio #podcast #winter #freezeprotection #fruittrees #PerfectoMundo

Better Lawns and Gardens Hour 2 - Garden Expert, Teresa Watkins, is joined by special guest and Santa Helper, Randy Schultz, President of Schultz Communications and editor of award-winning Home Garden and Homestead. Randy provides essential and practical gifts that every gardener can use. Dirty Word of the Day fits right into the holiday spirit with mistletoe! Garden calls and texts include why is porterweed leaves turning black, fertilizer, laying sod during winter, rye grass, orchid protection, Hibiscus pruning, and more. https://bit.ly/3tfLgAdSubscribe to my free monthly gardening newsletter: In Your Backyard.Graphic credits: Teresa Watkins, Home Garden and Homestead Join Teresa on the amazing Brandywine Garden Extravaganza Tour June 13 - 17, 2021.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 #southflorida #northflorida #centralflorida #tropical #floridalife #SHE #fertilizer #turf #grass #landscaping #fruits #vegetables #Orlando #Sarasota #Miami #FortLauderdale #Fall #WRLN #WiOD#Fall #radio #podcast #winter #Christmas #Christmasgifts #SantaClaus #gifts #presents #stockingstuffers

Better Lawns and Gardens Hour 1 – Florida will see a La Niña winter for a second year in a row in 2021-2022. What does that mean for your landscape? Garden expert, Teresa Watkins discusses with Ed Thralls, horticultural expert, on preparing your landscape for winter freezes, and what to do after a freeze! Gardening questions and texts include: planting basil in the winter, pruning leggy hibiscus, watering spider plants, Perfecto Mundo azaleas, Azomite, freeze protection for Plumeria, mangrove pods, crapemyrtle murder, ligustrum root rot, and more. https://bit.ly/3tfLgAdSubscribe to my free monthly gardening newsletter: In Your Backyard.Join Teresa on her Brandywine Garden Extravaganza Tour June 13 - 17, 2021!Graphic credits: Teresa WatkinsListen 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 #southflorida #northflorida #centralflorida #tropical #floridalife #SHE #landscaping #fruits #vegetables #Orlando #Sarasota #Miami #FortLauderdale #WRLN #WiOD#Fall #radio #podcast #winter #freezeprotection #frost #frostblanket #palms #LaNina

Better Lawns and Gardens Hour 2 - Happy Thanksgiving! Gardening expert Teresa Watkins is joined by award-winning author and podcaster, Carol Michel. Carol provides her Christmas book list for gardeners that have been good this year. Dirty word of the Day is Cornucopia. Garden calls and texts include suggestions for fruit trees for a Port Charlotte garden, tree mold, how to protect plants in winter, papaya tree, fig rust, how to get rid of air potato, and more. https://bit.ly/3tfLgAdSubscribe to my free monthly gardening newsletter: In Your Backyard.Graphic credits: Teresa WatkinsJoin Teresa on the amazing Brandywine Garden Extravaganza Tour June 13 - 17, 2021.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 #southflorida #northflorida #centralflorida #tropical #floridalife #SHE #fertilizer #turf #grass #landscaping #fruits #vegetables #Orlando #Sarasota #Miami #FortLauderdale #Fall #WRLN #WiOD#Fall #radio #podcast #winter #Thanksgiving #fruittrees

Better Lawns and Gardens Hour 1 – Happy Thanksgiving! Past Thanksgiving memories with Lizzie and Josh. Garden expert Teresa Watkins discusses when and how to use Neem oil in the garden with Dr. Matt Borden, Bartlett Tree Service. Garden questions and texts include powdery mildew, black spots on Duranta, plant disease, insect control, and more. https://bit.ly/3tfLgAdSubscribe to my free monthly gardening newsletter: In Your Backyard.Join Teresa on her Brandywine Garden Extravaganza Tour June 13 - 17, 2021!Graphic credits: Teresa WatkinsListen 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 #southflorida #northflorida #centralflorida #tropical #floridalife #SHE #fertilizer #turf #grass #landscaping #fruits #vegetables #Orlando #Sarasota #Miami #FortLauderdale #summer #WRLN #WiOD #insects #pesticides #insectcontrol #Thanksgiving #Neemoil #radio #podcast #CHENO

Better Lawns and Gardens Hour 2 - Gardening expert Teresa Watkins is gobsmacked over the new Proven Winners Color Choice "Perfecto Mundo" reblooming double azaleas for Central Florida. Dr. Judson LeCompte, research/breeder for Spring Meadow Nursery discusses all the benefits including lacebug resistance and sun-tolerance of these lush, low-maintenance azaleas. Dirty word of the Day is Autotrophs. Garden calls and texts include tropical soda apple, what to use on persistant whiteflies in the vegetable garden, using landscape fabric mesh in garden beds (NO!), using rock mulch under raised bed, transplanting Ponderosa lemon, and more. https://bit.ly/3tfLgAd Subscribe to my free monthly gardening newsletter: In Your Backyard. Graphic credits: Teresa Watkins Join Teresa on the amazing Brandywine Garden Extravaganza Tour June 13 - 17, 2021. 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 #southflorida #northflorida #centralflorida #tropical #floridalife #SHE #fertilizer #turf #grass #landscaping #fruits #vegetables #Orlando #Sarasota #Miami #FortLauderdale #Fall #WRLN #WiOD#Fall #radio #podcast #PerfectoMundo

Better Lawns and Gardens Hour 1 – Garden expert Teresa Watkins almost didn't make it to the show! Teresa and Dana Venrick, owner of Quality Green Specialists Nursery, discuss the importance of adding minerals like Azomite to Garden questions and texts include whiteflies solution, tropical soda apple, replacement for dwarf oyster plant getting too much water, should carambola fruit be removed from young tree, leaves dying on a Peppermint peach tree, and more. https://bit.ly/3tfLgAd Subscribe to my free monthly gardening newsletter: In Your Backyard.Join Teresa on her Brandywine Garden Extravaganza Tour June 13 - 17, 2021! Graphic credits: Teresa WatkinsListen 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 #southflorida #northflorida #centralflorida #tropical #floridalife #SHE #fertilizer #turf #grass #landscaping #fruits #vegetables #Orlando #Sarasota #Miami #FortLauderdale #summer #WRLN #WiOD #minerals #Azomite #radio #podcast

Better Lawns and Gardens Hour 2 - Tower Garden expert and Chicken Lady, Leah Brooks joins garden host, Teresa Watkins to discuss raising chickens. Lots of bad puns, more chicken trivia, weather and garden updates from North Florida. Dirty word of the Day is Cover Crop. Calls, texts, and emails include excess water use, cover crops, lack of rainfall, orchids in full sun, wildflower planting season, voodoo lilies, and more. https://bit.ly/3tfLgAdSubscribe to my free monthly gardening newsletter: In Your Backyard.Graphic credits: Teresa WatkinsNeed bulbs for Winter and Spring? Check out Brent and Becky's Bulbs!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 #southflorida #northflorida #centralflorida #tropical #floridalife #SHE #fertilizer #turf #grass #landscaping #fruits #vegetables #Orlando #Sarasota #Miami #FortLauderdale #Fall #WRLN #WiOD #Chickens #urbanchickens #freerangechickens #Fall #radio #podcast #wildflowers

Better Lawns and Gardens Hour 1 – Garden expert Teresa Watkins is joined by UF Seminole County Florida-Friendly Landscape Agent, Tina McIntyre. Tina answers questions on the need to change irrigation timers for Daylight Savings Time. Garden questions and texts include water conservation, chicken trivia, weather, all the rain, what to do in your landscape for November, and more. https://bit.ly/3tfLgAd Subscribe to my free monthly gardening newsletter: In Your Backyard. Graphic 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 #southflorida #northflorida #centralflorida #tropical #floridalife #SHE #turf #grass #landscaping #Orlando #Sarasota #Miami #FortLauderdale #BigBend #Tallahassee #WRLN #WiOD #DaylightSavingsTime #irrigation #time #Fall

Better Lawns and Gardens Hour 2 - Garden expert, Teresa Watkins quotes Macbeth's couplet from the witches scene and is joined by Denise Schreiber, aka "Mrs. Know It All", to discuss Halloween traditions and herbs. President of the Nehrling Garden Society, Angela Withers, announces that the Nehrling Gardens have been awarded $1,000,000 from the West Orange Healthcare District. Dirty word of the Day is decomposition. Double, double toil and trouble; Fire burn and caldron bubble.Fillet of a fenny snake,In the caldron boil and bake;Eye of newt and toe of frog,Wool of bat and tongue of dog,Adder's fork and blind-worm's sting,Lizard's leg and howlet's wing,For a charm of powerful trouble,Like a hell-broth boil and bubble.Double, double toil and trouble;Fire burn and caldron bubble.Cool it with a baboon's blood, Then the charm is firm and good.Notes: Macbeth: IV.i 10-19; 35-38 Calls, texts, and emails include growing cherry tomatoes indoors, best variety of zoysiagrass, Zeon zoysiagrass, putting down fertilizer right after a rain storm, bat praises, propagating viburnums, and more. https://bit.ly/3tfLgAdGraphic credits: Teresa WatkinsNeed bulbs for Winter and Spring? Check out Brent and Becky's Bulbs! 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 #southflorida #northflorida #centralflorida #tropical #floridalife #SHE #fertilizer #turf #grass #landscaping #fruits #vegetables #Orlando #Sarasota #Miami #FortLauderdale #summer #WRLN #WiOD #Halloween #bats #radio #podcast

Better Lawns and Gardens Hour 1 – Happy Halloween! Teresa Watkins celebrates the Autumn holiday childhood memories of playing with bats with Shari Clark, President of the Florida Bat Conservancy. They discuss where to place bat houses and what to do to attract more bats to your landscape. Sweater weather arrives in Central Florida and Better Lawns and Gardens hits 15,000 podcast downloads! Garden questions and texts include plant suggestions for a shaded area, soda apple, white flies on tomatoes, fertilizing St. Augustinegrass, overseeding rye on Bermudagrass, and more. https://bit.ly/3tfLgAd Graphic 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 #southflorida #northflorida #centralflorida #tropical #floridalife #SHE #fertilizer #turf #grass #landscaping #fruits #vegetables #Orlando #Sarasota #Miami #FortLauderdale #BigBend #Tallahassee #summer #WRLN #WiOD #Halloween #bats #radio #podcast

Better Lawns and Gardens Hour 2 - Host Teresa Watkins discusses resurgence of planting citrus with Lance Walheim, author of Citrus:: Complete Guide to Selecting & Growing More Than 100 Varieties for California, Arizona, the Gulf Coast, and Florida. Topics, calls, and texts, include Teresa's Dirty Word of the Day, moles vs voles, sterilizing weeds, topping avocado trees, orangewood tree, oak limbs falling, Italian cypress turning brown, replace with a Shumard, Nuttall, or Winged Elm? and more. https://bit.ly/3tfLgAd Graphic credits: Lance Walheim, Teresa Watkins Need bulbs for Winter and Spring? Check out Brent and Becky's Bulbs! 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 #SHE #fertilizer #turf #grass #landscaping #fruits #vegetables #Orlando #Sarasota #Miami #FortLauderdale #BLGradio #WRLN #WiOD #landscaping #Fall #citrus #citrusgreening #Autumn

Better Lawns and Gardens Hour 1 – Garden expert Teresa Watkins gets updates from Leah Brooks, Tower Garden rep, on her Fall garden and how to order a Tower Garden for Christmas. Topics, questions, and texts include muhly grass, black mulberry tree, bee removal, topping a papaya tree, adding grass clippings to compost, rainfall deficits, mushrooms in turf, bougainvillea transplant stress, and more. https://bit.ly/3tfLgAd Graphic credits: Leah Brooks, 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 #SHE #fertilizer #turf #grass #landscaping #fruits #vegetables #Orlando #Sarasota #Miami #FortLauderdale #BLGradio #WRLN #WiOD #landscaping #Fall #indoorplants #houseplants #Autumn

Better Lawns and Gardens Hour 2 - Teresa Watkins, gets great indoor plant suggestions from The Houseplant Guru, Lisa Eldred Steinkopf. Lisa provides recommendations on containers to use, care, and pruning tall houseplants. Garden calls and texts about mealy bugs on coconut palms, rhubarb, how long does it take a systemic to work, blackberry and raspberry varieties, cutting back a bougainvillea, do aphids sting, boxwood turning yellow, and more. https://bit.ly/3tfLgAd Graphic 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 #SHE #fertilizer #turf #grass #landscaping #fruits #vegetables #Orlando #Sarasota #Miami #FortLauderdale #BLGradio #WRLN #WiOD #landscaping #Fall #indoorplants #houseplants #Autumn

Better Lawns and Gardens Hour 1 – Garden expert Teresa Watkins and Dana Venrick, owner of Quality Green Specialists Nursery, discuss their favorite Autumn seasonal colorful trees. Celebrate National Apple Day, October 21st, by planting an apple tree! Dana provides apple varieties that do well in Florida. University of Florida Extension professor emeritus and Better Lawns and Gardens host emeritus Tom MacCubbin calls in to update on his Fall vegetables. Garden questions and texts include colorful nasturtiums, tomato disease, what kind of plastic to use for sterilization, yellowing leaf spot in St. Augustinegrass, and more. https://bit.ly/3tfLgAd Graphic 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 #SHE #fertilizer #turf #grass #landscaping #fruits #vegetables #Orlando #Sarasota #Miami #FortLauderdale #BLGradio #WRLN #WiOD #landscaping #Fall #indoorplants #houseplants #Autumn

Better Lawns and Gardens Hour 2 – Teresa talks to one of her favorite garden celebrities, Katie Dubow, president of Garden Media Group about the Garden Trends Report 2022. Learn about localtopia, shoppertainment, and what future gardening trends for 2022 will be! Calls and text questions include when and how to divide lovegrass, Heritage tomato seeds, tomato plants, croton scale, chemicals to spray on turf weeds, vegetables you can plant right now, and more. https://bit.ly/3mBsq3L Photo Credit: Garden Media Group Like us on Facebook and please share with your family and friends! Teresa's third book, "A Gardener's Compendium Volume 3 Gardening with The Senses" is now out! Listen to Better Lawns and Gardens every Saturday 7 am - 9 am EST. Call in with your garden questions 1-888-455-2967, 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 #Tampa #Sarasota #Miami #FortLauderdale #BLGradio #Fall #WRLN #WiOD #GardenMedia #GardenTrends #2022

Better Lawns and Gardens Hour 1 - Gardening expert Teresa Watkins, speaks with Dr. Matt Borden, plant consultant on Fall and Winter seasonal disease of Powdery Mildew. Gardening questions and texts include bougainvillea zones and not blooming, bayberry jelly or jam, getting rid of crabgrass, pruning azaleas and ixora, canning materials, getting rid of doveweed, torpedograss, sterilizing garden tools, and more. https://bit.ly/3BolxJc Photo Credit: Dr. Matt Borden, Bartlett Tree Service. Like us on Facebook and please share with your family and friends! Teresa's third book, "A Gardener's Compendium Volume 3 Gardening with The Senses" is now out! Listen to Better Lawns and Gardens every Saturday 7 am - 9 am EST. Call in with your garden questions 1-888-455-2967, 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 #Tampa #Sarasota #Miami #FortLauderdale #BLGradio #Fall #WRLN #WiOD #October #diseases

Better Lawns and Gardens Hour 2 – Teresa Watkins, garden expert, gets advice on creating beautiful Fall container gardens from the Hoosier Gardener, Jo Ellen Meyers Sharp. Teresa has a special announcement on her Brandywine Garden Extravaganza Tour in June 2022 of an additional day at the Philadelphia Flower Show! Gardening questions and texts include grapefruit tree, Cattleya orchids, lubber grasshoppers on amaryllis, Hass avocados, tomatoes and peppers are dying, sooty mold on cocoplum hedges, and more. https://bit.ly/3fr6SU2 Graphic Credit: Teresa Watkins Listen to Better Lawns and Gardens every Saturday 7 am - 9 am EST. Call in with your garden questions at 1.888.455.2867, or text 23680. #WFLF #WFLA #FNN #BetterLawns #gardening #Florida #planting #gardeninglife #southflorida #northflorida #centralflorida #tropical #floridalife #SHE #fertilizer #turf #grass #landscaping #fruits #vegetables #Orlando #Sarasota #Miami #FortLauderdale #summer #WRLN #WiOD #author #books #gardentour #gardens #botanicalgardens #travel #containergardens #PhiladelphiaFlowerShow #Hoosiers #Indiana #chard

Better Lawns and Gardens Hour 1 – Garden expert Teresa Watkins congratulates Ed Thralls, Extension agent emeritus, on his retirement this week. Ed provides his Fall gardening advice and tips on how to grow pumpkins in Florida. Gardening questions and texts include pony tail and Washingtonia palms, droopy crotons, herbs for Thanksgiving, what to do in the landscape for October, planting macho ferns, and Hawaiian tis losing color - why? And more. https://bit.ly/3fr6SU2Photo Credit: 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 #tropicals #landscaping #Fallgardening #pumpkins #Autumn #SHE #sustainable #horticulture #environments

Better Lawns and Gardens Hour 2 – Teresa Watkins, garden expert, is joined by Sally Cunningham, award winning garden author, garden columnist, feature writer: Buffalo News, Buffalo Spree Magazine, and tour Director, and national Director of the GardenComm organization , get excited talking about their garden tour June 13- 17, 2021 to the Brandywine Valley. Come with us! Find out more details here. Joelibeth Portillo, owner of Succulents Empire, called to talk about her rare and exotic plant collection in her plant boutique. Gardening questions and texts include transplanting daylilies, insect issue on tomatoes, sweet potatoes, peanuts, sky vine not blooming, disease issue on snake plants, orchid fertilizing, and more. https://bit.ly/3fr6SU2 Graphic Credit: Teresa Watkins Listen to Better Lawns and Gardens every Saturday 7 am - 9 am EST. Call in with your garden questions at 1.888.455.2867, or text 23680. #WFLF #WFLA #FNN #BetterLawns #gardening #Florida #planting #gardeninglife #southflorida #northflorida #centralflorida #tropical #floridalife #SHE #fertilizer #turf #grass #landscaping #fruits #vegetables #Orlando #Sarasota #Miami #FortLauderdale #summer #WRLN #WiOD #author #books #Buffalo #GardenWalkBuffalo #gardentour #gardens #botanicalgardens #travel

Better Lawns and Gardens Hour 1 – Garden expert, Teresa Watkins chats with Dr. Jaret Daniels, curator of the Florida Museum of Natural History and professor of Entomology at the University of Florida about his "hairy bee research". You can upload your photographs of native plasterer bees to iNaturalist. Sad to announce that Jim Thomas, a great environmental leader for Florida passed this week. To honor Jim Thomas's work, donations can be made to Oakland Nature Preserve. Wish a Happy birthday to Tom MacCubbin! Gardening questions and texts include weed killer, growing potatoes in Ocala, weeping small tree for house, repairing St. Augustine turf for HOA, North Florida report from Beverly, lychee tree, tall hibiscus pruning, rust on plumeria, when to prune tea olives, and more. https://bit.ly/3fr6SU2Graphic Credit: Dr. Jaret Daniel, ErikaMonster, UF/IFASListen 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 #research #bees #butterflies #pollinators #tropicals #landscaping

Better Lawns and Gardens Hour 2 – Teresa Watkins, garden expert , is thrilled to have award-winning author, Carol J. Michel, to talk about her latest book, Digging and Delighted. In honor of Carol's new book, there is a an appropriate "Dirty Word of the Day." Teresa found a new rare indoor houseplant, Ficus triangularis which she found at her favorite local nursery, Apenberry's Gardens. You can see a photo of my new plant on Better Lawns and Gardens Facebook page. Gardening questions and texts include dwarf oyster plants dying, poinsettia stems dying back, organic herbicides, OMRI lists of organic products; Canary Island date palm disease; watering schedule for new St. Augustinegrass, pineapple fruit; orchid fertilizing, and more. https://bit.ly/3fr6SU2 Graphic Credit: Teresa Watkins Listen to Better Lawns and Gardens every Saturday 7 am - 9 am EST. Call in with your garden questions at 1.888.455.2867, or text 23680. #WFLF #WFLA #FNN #BetterLawns #gardening #Florida #planting #gardeninglife #southflorida #northflorida #centralflorida #tropical #floridalife #SHE #fertilizer #turf #grass #landscaping #fruits #vegetables #Orlando #Sarasota #Miami #FortLauderdale #summer #WRLN #WiOD #author #books #digging #questionsandanswers #radio #podcast #Maitland

Better Lawns and Gardens Hour 1 – Better Lawns and Gardens wins the Best of Maitland 2021 in the Agriculture category! Yay, Tom MacCubbin and me! Gardening horticulturist and landscape designer Teresa Watkins chats with Tina McIntyre, Seminole County Extension's Florida-friendly Landscape agent on mulching basics, benefits, and myths. Teresa has found an exciting new downtown Orlando plant shop - Succulents Empire. Gardening questions and texts include pruning palm fronds, eggplant not producing, orchids not blooming and what kind of pot do they need, what size container to grow onions, plumeria rust, does eucalyptus mulch float, and more. https://bit.ly/3fr6SU2Graphic Credit: Teresa WatkinsListen 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 #mulch #landscape #podcast #succulents

Better Lawns and Gardens Hour 2 – Teresa Watkins, garden expert is joined by renowned landscape authority, Lance Walheim on Fall lawn fertilization. New "Dirty Word of the Day." Gardening questions and texts include turf issues, "not good at lawn care", Florida snow, torpedograss; aphids on milkweed, plumbago growing too big, stink weed removal, tropical sod webworm, and more. https://bit.ly/3fr6SU2Photo Credit: Teresa WatkinsListen to Better Lawns and Gardens every Saturday 7 am - 9 am EST. Call in with your garden questions at 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 #summer #WRLN #WiOD #September #lawns #fertilizer #fertilizaton #grass #lawncare #LanceWalheim

Better Lawns and Gardens Hour 1 – Teresa Watkins recollects the 20th anniversary of September 11, 2001. South Florida's Yard-Doc, Carol Bailey shares her years of experience vegetable gardening by the sea. Producer Lizzie Steele provides background information on her past life in landscape maintenance. Gardening questions and texts include crape myrtles and bougainvilleas. checking indoor patio plants and orchids, how to check your plants for insects, and more. https://bit.ly/3fr6SU2 Photo Credit: 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 #summer #WRLN #WiOD #seaside #ocean #Floridacoast #HobeSound #YardDoc #911 #Neverforget

Better Lawns and Gardens Hour 2 – Still getting her roots situated, girl power with Melissa Fox, and Lizzie Steele, Better Lawns and Gardens' new producer, Teresa Watkins, horticulturist, landscape designer, and garden author, celebrates Labor Day with fruit tree planting tips from Dana Venrick, owner of Quality Green Specialists Nursery in Deland, Florida. New "Dirty Word of the Day." Gardening questions and texts include fig rust, long-time listener Beverly's storm updates, lawn fertilizing, cast iron plants as groundcover, sod installation timing, planting a container-grown avocado tree, fertilizing crape myrtles and azaleas, removing Virginia creeper, indoor Peace lily care, transplanting a feijoa tree, and more. https://bit.ly/3fr6SU2Photo Credit: Teresa Watkins Listen to Better Lawns and Gardens every Saturday 7 am - 9 am EST. Call in with your garden questions at 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 #summer #WRLN #WiOD #QualityGreenSpecialists #fruittrees #LaborDay

Better Lawns and Gardens Hour 1 – Happy Labor Day weekend! Teresa Watkins, gardening expert discusses health and time-saving labor tips for gardeners with Ed Thralls, Orange County Extension Horticultural Agent. Gardening questions and texts include updates on doveweed and pigeon pea, starting a Fall garden, lubber grasshoppers, deadheading pentas, why is my plant dying (?), crape myrtles not blooming, composting with soldier fly bins, and a job request from Morgana, and more. https://bit.ly/3fr6SU2Photo Credit: Creative Commons 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 #summer #WRLN #WiOD #LaborDay #Fall #health #seniors

Better Lawns and Gardens Hour 2 – Teresa Watkins, horticulturist, landscape designer, and garden author, reflects back on growing up near Cypress Gardens and Slocum Water Gardens with Kathy Jentz, editor and publisher of the award-winning Washington Gardener Magazine, based in Washington, DC. She is also the host of the popular GardenDC Podcast. Her mission is to turn black thumbs green. A life-long gardener, Kathy believes that growing plants should be stress-free and enjoyable. Her philosophy is inspiration over perspiration Kathy encourages with great advice on how every landscape needs a water garden. Gardening questions and texts include how to attach air plants and orchids to trees, plant choices for full sun, Ponytail palm in Zone 8, clumping bamboo, and more. https://bit.ly/3fr6SU2Photo Credit: Kathy Jentz. The International Water Lily and Water Gardening Society The quarterly Water Gardening Journal magazine 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 #summer #WRLN #WiOD #watergardening #waterlily #IWGS #KathyJentz

Better Lawns and Gardens Hour 1 – Teresa Watkins, horticulturist, landscape designer, and garden author, finds out what Leah Brooks, gardener extraordinaire, mom, Tower Garden rep, and experienced community and school gardener. Leah has helped over a thousand families start, maintain, and expand backyard, patio, basement, and kitchen gardens. Teresa and Leah discuss how easy to grow Fall vegetables in a small space. Teresa finds a Knight anole in Winter Park. Gardening questions and texts include spots on lemon tree, poinsettia care, clumping bamboo, hydrangeas, and Giant Apostle irises in Florida, removing bougainvillea, coleus, and more. https://bit.ly/3fr6SU2 Photo Credit: 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 #summer #WRLN #WiOD #TowerGarden #aeroponics #Fall

Better Lawns and Gardens Hour 2 - Gardening expert Teresa Watkins, is joined by The Houseplant Guru, Lisa Eldred Steinkopf on caring for houseplants indoors and outdoors during the summer. Caller and text questions include boxwoods turning yellow, should I remove Australian pine tree, pruning poinsettias, honey bee infestation, fire ants, gardenia variety with the largest bloom, more on moles, container garden on the beach, can I cut pentas back now, and more. BetterLawns.com Photo Credit: Teresa WatkinsThe Houseplant Guru books! Like us on Facebook and please share with your family and friends! Listen to Better Lawns and Gardens every Saturday 7 am - 9 am EST. Call me with your garden questions at 1-888-455-2967, 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 #summer #WRLN #WiOD #Extension #August #WNDB #Houseplants

Better Lawns and Gardens Hour 1 - Celebrate National Dog Day on August 26th by adopting a wonderful dog at your local animal shelter. Gardening expert Teresa Watkins, is joined by Cherie Velez to discuss a solution for dogs that will only go on grass. Also, new development on reducing irrigation to help reduce the need for liquid oxygen. This will help provide more resources to help COVID-19 patients. Gardening questions and texts include differences between horticultural oil and cooking oil, getting rid of moles, ants, blooming shrubs for August, and more. BetterLawns.com Photo Credit: Gotta Go Grass Like us on Facebook and please share with your family and friends! Listen to Better Lawns and Gardens every Saturday 7 am - 9 am EST. Call in with your garden questions at 1-888-455-2967, 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 #summer #WRLN #WiOD #GottaGo #dogs #August #WNDB