Better Lawns and Gardens

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,...

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,...

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,...

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 benefit...

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, updat...

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...

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 popu...

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...

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 las...

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 U F/IFAS County Extension office , Amazon, and on SoilTe...

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 caladi...

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 Linco...

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...

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 Horticultu...

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...

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 fo...

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 tre...

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 a...

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 N ational Pollinator Week with CJ McCartney , Florida Wildflower Foundation director and botanizer. Teresa answers questions on daylilies color reversion, snails in the gar...

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://...

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 h er photos posted on Better Lawns and Gardens Facebook page. Teresa provides summer vegetab...

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 Cour t, Iford Manor , Wisley , and the Chelsea Flower Show . Teresa answers gardening questions...

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 dayli...

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 Watkins Listen every Saturdays from 7am - 9am EST on WFLA- Orlando . Call in wi...

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/3c1f5x7 Graphic credit: Tom MacCubbin Listen every Saturdays from 7am - 9am EST on...