Better Lawns and Gardens

Better Lawns and Gardens Hour 2 – Coming to you from the Summit Responsible Solutions Studios.   Host emeritus, Tom MacCubbin, interviews Austin Tollman, co-owner of Word of Mouth Tree Service on caring for your trees this summer.. Sign up for Teresa’s monthly gardening newsletter, “In Your Backyard” where you can read Teresa’s what to do in your landscape tips, Landscape Malpractice: How to know...

Better Lawns and Gardens Hour 1 – Coming to you from the Summit Responsible Solutions Studios.   While garden expert Teresa Watkins leads a garden tour to the Newport Flower Show, Host emeritus, Tom MacCubbin, discusses turkey poults with Lizzie, and answers caller questions and texts. Garden topics include cactus, mosquitos in a wooded forest, how to kill spurge in St. Augustine grass, lemon and...

Better Lawns and Gardens Hour 2 – Coming to you from the Summit Responsible Solutions Studios.    Garden expert, Teresa provides ways to use your home-grown sugar cane and how to grow plumeria. Teresa’s Dirty Word of the Day is Monocarpic. Garden topics and questions include Angel trumpet frass issue, will the mushrooms hurt my grass, summer edibles for South Florida, how to care for a Panama Rose...

Better Lawns and Gardens Hour 1 – Coming to you from the Summit Responsible Solutions Studios. Garden expert and host, Teresa Watkins discusses keeping pest away from cookouts, summer campfires, and family picnics with Heather Stickney, Summit Responsible Solutions. Teresa’ Top Five Favorite vegetables that attract pollinators. What to plant in June in your landscape. Garden questions include tran...

Better Lawns and Gardens Hour 2 – Coming to you from the Summit Responsible Solutions Studios.   June is National Rose Month! Roses grow well in Florida if they are the right ones. Teresa provides rose care selection, care, and her favorite roses. Teresa’s Dirty Word of the Day is Caliper and DBH. Garden topics and questions include mulberry not looking good,  hibiscus dropping leaves, and propaga...

Better Lawns and Gardens Hour 1 – Coming to you from the Summit Responsible Solutions Studios. Garden expert and host, Teresa Watkins is joined by Quality Green Specialists Nursery owner, Dana Venrick to talk about excellent trees for Father’s Day gifts. Teresa’ Top Five Pieces of Garden Art. What to plant in June in your landscape. Garden questions include staghorn fern fell – what to do? Can you...

Better Lawns and Gardens Hour 2 – Coming to you from the Summit Responsible Solutions Studios.   Summer is here! Garden expert Teresa Watkins is back from visiting sublime gardens. Teresa’s Dirty Word of the Day is ha-ha. Teresa discusses her favorite British childhood literature bronze sculptures at the Chelsea Flower Show, and meeting the sculptor, Robert James Workshop . Garden topics and quest...

Better Lawns and Gardens Hour 1 – Coming to you from the Summit Responsible Solutions Studios. Garden expert and host, Teresa Watkins is back inspired, rejuvenated, and with a little zone envy, visiting the best of English Gardens and the Chelsea Flower Show. Just in time for the start of hurricane season. Teresa’ Top Five Favorite Plants featured How to design and prepare your landscape for storm...

Better Lawns and Gardens Hour 2 – Coming to you from the Summit Responsible Solutions Studios.    Garden expert, Teresa Watkins has jetted off to the Chelsea Flower Show and Host Emeritus Tom MacCubbin and producer Lizzie Steele, are in the studio! Producer Lizzie Steele fills in Tom on how to keep her turkeys cool in the heat. Tom’s Dirty Word of the Day is Nematode. Tom interviews his good frien...

Better Lawns and Gardens Hour 1 – Coming to you from the Summit Responsible Solutions Studios.    Garden expert and host, Teresa Watkins is at the RHS Chelsea Flower Show and Host Emeritus Tom MacCubbin and producer Lizzie Steele, have the deck and the conn! Tom gives his update on the tomatoes and mite issue, his okra, Southern peas, in his vegetable garden and Tom’s Top Five Foliage Plants. Gard...

Better Lawns and Gardens Hour 2 – Coming to you from the Summit Responsible Solutions Studios,   Garden expert Teresa Watkins celebrates Mother’s Day with trivia and most popular flowers by states. Teresa’s Dirty Word of the Day is Kalanchoe. Garden questions and texts include viburnum shrubs are bare, weeping hibiscus, and hibiscus with aphids, keeping crape myrtles as shrubs, copperleaf plant he...

Better Lawns and Gardens Hour 1 – Coming to you from the Summit Responsible Solutions Studios. Happy Mother’s Day! Garden expert Teresa Watkins is joined by Dana Venrick, owner of Quality Green Specialists Nursery talk about the many varieties of loquat and olive, moringa trees, and the beautiful magnolia tree. Teresa’s Top Five Floral Perfumes for Mother’s Day. Garden topics and questions include...

Better Lawns and Gardens Hour 2 – Coming to you from the Summit Responsible Solutions Studios,   Garden expert Teresa Watkins answers Spring gardening questions. Teresa’s Dirty Word of the Day focuses on the difference between bacterial disease and fungal disease. Garden questions and texts include sea grapes not producing fruit, tomato issues, how to prune weeping hibiscus, pruning mulberry trees...

Better Lawns and Gardens Hour 1 – Coming to you from the Summit Responsible Solutions Studios. Puddles in the parking lot! Yes, it rained! Garden expert Teresa Watkins and producer Lizzie Steele discuss Teresa’s trip to Savannah, Georgia and Charleston, South Carolina. May celebrations, (including World Naked Gardening Day) Mother’s Day suggestions to visit Dana Venrick at Quality Green Specialist...

Better Lawns and Gardens Hour 2 – Coming to you from the Summit Responsible Solutions Studios,   Happy Easter! Garden expert Teresa Watkins learns from Heather Stickney, Summit Responsible Solutions National Sales Manager about Deer Ban, their solution to keeping deer out of the landscape. Teresa’s Dirty Word of the Day is Asclepias. Garden questions and texts include blackberry primocanes, thank...

Better Lawns and Gardens Hour 1 – Coming to you from the Summit Responsible Solutions Studios.   Spring is in the air with fruits, flower show and a foliage festival coming up! Garden expert Teresa Watkins is joined by Dana Venrick with all the fruit trees you can find at Quality Green Specialists Nursery in Deland . Teresa is looking forward to attending the Orlando Garden Club’s Treasures from M...

from the Summit Responsible Solutions Studios.   Garden expert Teresa Watkins continues her conversation with  UF/IFAS Seminole County Florida-Friendly Landscaping Agent, Tina McIntyre for Earth Day’s special events. Teresa’s Dirty Word of the Day is Resistance. Garden questions and texts include avocado update, difference between Eastern cedars and Southern Red Cedars, how to pollinate indoor tom...

Better Lawns and Gardens Hour 1 – Coming to you from the Summit Responsible Solutions Studios.   Garden expert Teresa Watkins is joined by UF/IFAS Seminole County Florida-Friendly Landscaping Agent , Tina McIntyre for Earth Day’s special events for water conversation. In recognition of Palm Sunday, Teresa’s Top Five favorite palm trees! Garden topics and questions include reclaimed water, lemon tr...

Better Lawns and Gardens Hour 2 – Coming to you from the Summit Responsible Solutions Studios,   Garden expert and host Teresa Watkins interviews Robin Thiesen and Carolin Von De Berg, directors of the Sanford Cultural Guild on their annual Sanford Historic Garden Tour, April 5, 2025. Teresa’s Dirty Word of the Day is Cleistogamy. Garden questions and texts include harvesting Bahiagrass seed, crot...

Better Lawns and Gardens Hour 1 – Coming to you from the Summit Responsible Solutions Studios.   The April “In Your Backyard” gardening newsletter is out! Garden expert Teresa Watkins tells what to plant in your garden in April. Teresa’s Top Five landscape installation mistakes! Garden topics and questions include lubber grasshoppers, can peonies be grown in Florida, how to grow crotons and dwarf...

Better Lawns and Gardens Hour 2 – Coming to you from the Summit Responsible Solutions Studios,   Teresa’s Dirty Word of the Day is Taproot. Teresa is joined by Jim Putnam, host of HortTube to discuss Southern Living Plants to help butterfly population. To celebrate April as Water Conservation Month, Osceola County Toho Water Authority Water Conservation Supervisor Rodney Tilley and Conservation Li...

Better Lawns and Gardens Hour 1 – Coming to you from the Summit Responsible Solutions Studios.   Teresa and Lizzie discuss the weather’s cold front, Grosse Pointe tv show, and Teresa’s Blueberry Gnome painted by her granddaughter.  Teresa’s Top Five Favorite Plants that have purple flowers! Teresa interviews Dana Venrick, owner of Quality Green Specialists about the popular Florida Wildflower &amp...

Better Lawns and Gardens Hour 2 – Coming to you from the Summit Responsible Solutions Studios,   Dirty Word of the Day is Trap Cropping. Teresa is joined by Heather Stickney, Summit Responsible Solutions national sales manager. Heather provides her companies’ environmental solutions to prevent mosquitos, ticks, and fungal gnats, during camping, hiking, picnics, while also reducing pesticide use. G...

Better Lawns and Gardens Hour 1 – Coming to you from the Summit Responsible Solutions Studios.   Teresa sadly announces the passing of a great Better Lawns and Gardens host. Teresa provides her tips on how to care of African violets. Condolences from Better Lawns and Gardens long time listeners. Great gardening week to plant new flowers, shrubs, and trees. In Your Backyard Newsletter is out! Teres...

Best of Better Lawns and Gardens with Teresa Watkins. Better Lawns and Gardens Hour 1 – Coming to you from the Summit Responsible Solutions Studios.   Teresa is celebrating St. Patrick’s Day all month! Dana O’Venrick, owner of Quality Green Specialists Nursery discusses the many kinds of O’live trees that will grow in Florida and announces the upcoming Florida Wildflower Festival. Teresa found 'Ch...