Better Lawns and Gardens

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 ginge...

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...

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 aza...

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...

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.  ...

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/3tfLgAd Subscribe to my free monthl...

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 con...

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...

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 repe...

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 i...

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,...

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...

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/3tfLgAd Subscribe to my free monthly g...

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....

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...

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...

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/3tf...

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...

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...

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...

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 mo...

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...

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...

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...

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 too...