Better Lawns and Gardens

Better Lawns and Gardens Hour 2 – Coming to you from Summit Responsible Solutions Studios,   Teresa and her good friend and award-winning author Carol Michel discuss Easter in her Northern Indiana garden and her garden book series. Garden questions and texts include lemon tree, soil for vegetable beds, fertilizer for azaleas, crapemyrtles, lawns, and fruit trees, how to pollinate zucchini, avocado...

Better Lawns and Gardens Hour 1 – Coming to you from Summit Responsible Solutions Studios, Host and garden expert, Teresa Watkins and Sharon Fisher chat about all the things to do at the Apopka Art and Foliage Festival, April 23rd and 24th .  Teresa will be at the “Ask the Plant Doctor” booth on Saturday, April 23rd. Stop by and let Teresa help you with your garden dilemma. Gardening calls and tex...

Better Lawns and Gardens Hour 2 – Coming to you from Summit Responsible Solutions Studios, Teresa and Lance Walheim, horticulturist and author of “Roses for Dummies,” discuss different varieties of roses, rose care, and how to use roses in the landscape. Garden questions and texts include weed landscape fabric, quick and slow-release fertilizers, flowers to add to your herb garden, how to fix plan...

Better Lawns and Gardens Hour 1 – Coming to you from Summit Responsible Solutions Studios, Host and garden expert, Teresa Watkins is joined by Better Lawns and Gardens Host emeritus, Tom MacCubbin to discuss differences between palms and trees, Spring palm care, and how to spot palm tree decline. Gardening calls and texts include plants for containers, palm fertilizer, lawn care, winter-damaged pl...

Better Lawns and Gardens Hour 2 – Coming to you from Summit Responsible Solutions Studios, Host and garden expert, Teresa Watkins has so many garden questions that she spends the whole hour with callers and texters. Update on availability of spots on Teresa’s Brandywine Garden Extravaganza Tour June 14 – 17, 2022 .  Garden questions and texts, can cypress knees be cut down, propagating bloodroot s...

Better Lawns and Gardens Hour 1 – Coming to you from Summit Responsible Solutions Studios, Host and garden expert, Teresa Watkins starts the morning forecasting rainy days ahead for Florida gardeners with Lizzie Steele, producer. Dana Venrick, Quality Green Specialists nursery, and sponsor of Better Lawns and Gardens discusses Spring care for fruit trees. Gardening calls and texts include recap of...

Better Lawns and Gardens Hour 2 – Coming to you from Summit Responsible Solutions Studios, Host and garden expert, Teresa Watkins is joined by her good friend, Dr. Gary Bachman, Extension/Research Professor of Horticulture, Coastal Research and Extension Center, Mississippi State University. Host and Executive Producer of Southern Gardening videos and podcasts. Gary discusses Springtime emergence...

Better Lawns and Gardens Hour 1 – Coming to you from Summit Responsible Solutions Studios, Host and garden expert, Teresa Watkins starts with beautiful Florida gardening weather with Lizzie, producer. Angela Withers, President of the Nehrling Garden Society announces their popular Springtime event, Art and Stroll: Caladiums, Canvases, nnd Coffee on April 23rd. For tickets and more information, cli...

Better Lawns and Gardens Hour 2 – Coming to you from Summit Responsible Solutions Studios, Host and garden expert, Teresa Watkins interviews Valerie Anderson, advocate for Split Oak Forest in Osceola County, on the upcoming Spring Hike through this endangered prairie and scrub preserve. Dirty Word of the Day is nectary. Garden questions and texts include grafting gardenias, perennial peanut as a g...

Better Lawns and Gardens Hour 1 – Coming to you from Summit Responsible Solutions Studios, Host and garden expert, Teresa Watkins and producer Lizzie Steele warm up the morning with rainy weather, should you irrigate 2x a week, and #Caturday's St. Gertrude, the patron saint of gardeners and cats. St. Gertrude also celebrates the same holy day as St. Patrick.  What to do in March in your landscape....

Better Lawns and Gardens Hour 2 – Coming to you from Summit Responsible Solutions Studios, Host and garden expert, Teresa Watkins chats with Leah Brooks, with Tower Garden on starting Spring seeds in rock wool, growing vegetables in a Tower Garden.   Garden questions and texts include pruning guava trees, North Florida rain total reports, someone complaining about John Denver, woody periwinkles, p...

Better Lawns and Gardens Hour 1 – Coming to you from Summit Responsible Solutions Studios, Host and garden expert, Teresa Watkins asks Tom Maccubbin for a good substitution for granule fertilizer and discusses how to understand a soil analysis report.  Lizzie encourages Shumar to ask his garden question.  Garden questions and texts include recommendations for a reliable plant id app, do plants nee...

Better Lawns and Gardens Hour 2 – Coming to you from Summit Responsible Solutions Studios, Host and garden expert, Teresa Watkins interviews Mary Phillips, Head of Garden for Wildlife, on the gardening campaign “Plant with a Purpose!”  Garden questions and texts include using cat fur, coffee grounds, and teabags in compost, transplanting a 5’ tall pittosporum, Tabebuia that never flowers, topping...

Better Lawns and Gardens Hour 1 – Coming to you from Summit Responsible Solutions Studios, Host and garden expert, Teresa Watkins is joined by show sponsor, Dana Venrick, Quality Green Specialists Nursery in Deland to showcase the popular Florida Wildflower and Garden Festival.   Speakers include Teresa presents “Success with Wildflowers – Grow, Mow, and Bloom” and Tom MacCubbin will be speaking o...

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...

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 c...

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 bea...

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 f...

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...

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 ex...

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, Ch...

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 Febr...

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 mor...

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 fern...

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 o...