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Better Lawns and Gardens host, Teresa Watkins, provides weekly gardening advice, interviews garden celebrities, and answers your questions on turf, flowers, shrubs, and trees. Gardening information for gardeners who want to be sustainable and low maintenance! Topics and interviews include monthly gardening advice on Florida-friendly landscaping, water conservation, landscape design, themed gardens, new garden books, and colorful plants for sun or shade. Saturday mornings 7am - 9am EST. iHeart WFLA-AM 540 https://bit.ly/3594wWb The Better Lawns & Gardens Podcast drops every Monday! Subscribe so you don't miss an episode. Call with your questions at 1-888-455-2967 or text 23680. Subscribe to Teresa's free monthly gardening newsletter "In Your Backyard." (https://lp.constantcontactpages.com/sl/il82tQY/BLGnewsletter) #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 #BlackKow #SummitResponsibleSolutions #QualityGreenSpecialists #iHeart #TeresaWatkins #podcast #liveradio #Southerngardening #South #vegetablegardening #tropicalplants #tropical #iTunes #Amazon #Spotify #SouthernLiving #Bhg #Tampa #Tallahassee #Georgia #Louisiana #Texas #Alabama

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United States

Genres:

Gardening

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Better Lawns and Gardens host, Teresa Watkins, provides weekly gardening advice, interviews garden celebrities, and answers your questions on turf, flowers, shrubs, and trees. Gardening information for gardeners who want to be sustainable and low maintenance! Topics and interviews include monthly gardening advice on Florida-friendly landscaping, water conservation, landscape design, themed gardens, new garden books, and colorful plants for sun or shade. Saturday mornings 7am - 9am EST. iHeart WFLA-AM 540 https://bit.ly/3594wWb The Better Lawns & Gardens Podcast drops every Monday! Subscribe so you don't miss an episode. Call with your questions at 1-888-455-2967 or text 23680. Subscribe to Teresa's free monthly gardening newsletter "In Your Backyard." (https://lp.constantcontactpages.com/sl/il82tQY/BLGnewsletter) #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 #BlackKow #SummitResponsibleSolutions #QualityGreenSpecialists #iHeart #TeresaWatkins #podcast #liveradio #Southerngardening #South #vegetablegardening #tropicalplants #tropical #iTunes #Amazon #Spotify #SouthernLiving #Bhg #Tampa #Tallahassee #Georgia #Louisiana #Texas #Alabama

Language:

English

Contact:

14077603966


Episodes
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S2 Ep310: Better Lawns and Gardens - Hour 2 Frederik Meijer Gardens & Sculpture Gardens September 7, 2024

9/7/2024
Better Lawns and Gardens Hour 2 – Coming to you from the Summit Responsible Solutions Studios, Garden expert, Teresa Watkins describes her trip to Frederik Meijer Gardens & Sculpture Park, private gardens, and nurseries. New Zone Envy plants that Teresa is going to trial. Dirty Word of the Day is Lignin. What to plant and do in your landscape for September. Garden topics include Peace Lily flowering, is it St. Augustine grass or an invasive weed, can Shell Gingers be cut right now, perennial peanut, trimming bougainvillea, and more. https://bit.ly3c1f5x7 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 when to fire your landscaper,” Teresa’s Design Tips; and more. https://bit.ly/2YRBbsT Join Teresa in Philadelphia for a magical tour March 7th – 10th 2025. Check out Art in Bloom Garden Tours for more information! Graphic credit: Teresa Watkins Listen every Saturdays from 7am - 9am EST on WFLA- Orlando. Call in with your garden questions and text messages on 1-888.455.2867 and 23680, Miss the live broadcast? Listen on Audioboom podcast 24/7. https://bit.ly/3c1f5x7 #WFLF #WFLA #FNN #WNDB #BetterLawns #gardening #Florida #planting #gardeninglife #radio #southflorida #northflorida #centralflorida #Deland #SHE #Orlando #Sarasota #Miami #FortLauderdale #podcast #syndicated #BLGradio #WRLN #WiOD #gardening #SummitResponsibleSolutions #QualityGreenSpecialists #BlackKow

Duration:00:39:28

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S2 Ep309: Better Lawns and Gardens - Hour 1 Mushrooms Good or Bad? September 7, 2024

9/7/2024
Better Lawns and Gardens Hour 1 – Coming to you from the Summit Responsible Solutions Studios. Host and garden expert, Teresa Watkins is on a garden high after attending the GardenComm Annual Conference in Grand Rapids, MI. The rainfall totals are incredible. With the rain, comes mushrooms. Are they good or bad for your landscape, Teresa discusses the reasons and benefits of mushrooms. Teresa’s Top Five is Top Five plants with unique foliage shapes. In Your Backyard Newsletter is out! Garden topics and questions include black hibiscus, how often to prune hibiscus and bougainvillea, how much Black Kow to amend a garden bed, does baking soda hurt the environment; when can I seed rye grass, what colorful flowers can I plant, and more. https:/ mly/3c1f5x7 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 when to fire your landscaper,” Teresa’s Design Tips; and more. https://bit.ly/2YRBbsT Join Teresa in Philadelphia for a magical tour March 7th – 10th 2025. Check out Art in Bloom Garden Tours for more information! Graphic credit: Lizzie Steele, Teresa Watkins Listen every Saturdays from 7am - 9am EST on WFLA- Orlando. Call in with your garden questions and text messages on 1-888.455.2867 and 23680, Miss the live broadcast? Listen on Audioboom podcast 24/7. https://bit.ly/3c1f5x7 #WFLF #WFLA #FNN #WNDB #BetterLawns #gardening #Florida #planting #gardeninglife #radio #southflorida #northflorida #centralflorida #Deland #SHE #Orlando #Sarasota #Miami #FortLauderdale #podcast #syndicated #BLGradio #WRLN #WiOD #gardening #SummitResponsibleSolutions #QualityGreenSpecialists #BlackKow

Duration:00:39:33

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S2 Ep308: Better Lawns and Gardens - Hour 2 Your Garden Questions Answered August 24, 2024

8/24/2024
Better Lawns and Gardens Hour 2 – Coming to you from the Summit Responsible Solutions Studios, Garden expert, Teresa Watkins answers landscape questions from callers, texts, and emails. Teresa provides some last week of August chores you can do in your landscape. The Dirty Word of the Day is Humate. Garden topics include what’s wrong with my hydrangea, avocados, figs, how to get rid of sandspurs, dollarweed, large sunflowers, propagating roses, and more. https://bit.ly3c1f5x7 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 when to fire your landscaper,” Teresa’s Design Tips; and more. https://bit.ly/2YRBbsT Join Teresa in Philadelphia for a magical tour March 7th – 10th 2025. Check out Art in Bloom Garden Tours for more information! Graphic credit: Teresa Watkins Listen every Saturdays from 7am - 9am EST on WFLA- Orlando. Call in with your garden questions and text messages on 1-888.455.2867 and 23680, Miss the live broadcast? Listen on Audioboom podcast 24/7. https://bit.ly/3c1f5x7 #WFLF #WFLA #FNN #WNDB #BetterLawns #gardening #Florida #planting #gardeninglife #radio #southflorida #northflorida #centralflorida #Deland #SHE #Orlando #Sarasota #Miami #FortLauderdale #podcast #syndicated #BLGradio #WRLN #WiOD #gardening #SummitResponsibleSolutions #QualityGreenSpecialists #BlackKow

Duration:00:42:29

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S2 Ep308: Better Lawns and Gardens - Hour 1 Soil Amendments August 24, 2024

8/24/2024
Better Lawns and Gardens Hour 1 – Coming to you from the Summit Responsible Solutions Studios. Host and garden expert, Teresa Watkins is joined by Dana Venrick, owner of Quality Green Specialist Nursery to discuss the need for soil amendments and what soil amendments to add for a healthy harvest. Teresa adds a new segment to her first hour: Teresa’s Top Five! Each week, Teresa will give her top five lists on every aspect of landscaping; design; plant selections; maintenance; and style. Garden topics and questions include upcoming weather, why Teresa frequently mentions irrigation and watering practices; dog days of summer; OMRI. vegan soil amendments; solarization of torpedograss; and more. https:/ mly/3c1f5x7 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 when to fire your landscaper,” Teresa’s Design Tips; and more. https://bit.ly/2YRBbsT Join Teresa in Philadelphia for a magical tour March 7th – 10th 2025. Check out Art in Bloom Garden Tours for more information! Graphic credit: Teresa Watkins Listen every Saturdays from 7am - 9am EST on WFLA- Orlando. Call in with your garden questions and text messages on 1-888.455.2867 and 23680, Miss the live broadcast? Listen on Audioboom podcast 24/7. https://bit.ly/3c1f5x7 #WFLF #WFLA #FNN #WNDB #BetterLawns #gardening #Florida #planting #gardeninglife #radio #southflorida #northflorida #centralflorida #Deland #SHE #Orlando #Sarasota #Miami #FortLauderdale #podcast #syndicated #BLGradio #WRLN #WiOD #gardening #SummitResponsibleSolutions #QualityGreenSpecialists #BlackKow

Duration:00:39:40

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S2 Ep307: Better Lawns and Gardens - Hour 2 Nematode Solutions August 17, 2024

8/17/2024
Better Lawns and Gardens Hour 2 – Coming to you from the Summit Responsible Solutions Studios, Garden expert, Teresa Watkins receives an email on the frustrations of having nematodes in the vegetable bed. Teresa provides the steps to getting rid of nematodes. Teresa provides what to do in August with your fruit trees. The Dirty Word of the Day is Enation. Garden topics include avocado tree not fruiting this year, how to get Powderpuff mimosa to grow, replacement for invasive Mexican Petunia, bushy crape myrtle, when can I fertilize Christmas amaryllis, potting soil for wheatgrass, plant identification, fertilizing avocados, and more. https://bit.ly3c1f5x7 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 when to fire your landscaper,” Teresa’s Design Tips; and more. https://bit.ly/2YRBbsT Join Teresa on her national and international garden tours. Check out Art in Bloom Garden Tours for more information! Photo credit: W. T. Crow, R. Levin, UF/IFAS Graphic credit: Teresa Watkins Listen every Saturdays from 7am - 9am EST on WFLA- Orlando. Call in with your garden questions and text messages on 1-888.455.2867 and 23680, Miss the live broadcast? Listen on Audioboom podcast 24/7. https://bit.ly/3c1f5x7 #WFLF #WFLA #FNN #WNDB #BetterLawns #gardening #Florida #planting #gardeninglife #radio #southflorida #northflorida #centralflorida #Deland #SHE #Orlando #Sarasota #Miami #FortLauderdale #podcast #syndicated #BLGradio #WRLN #WiOD #gardening #SummitResponsibleSolutions #QualityGreenSpecialists #BlackKow

Duration:00:39:32

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S2 Ep306: Better Lawns and Gardens - Hour 1 Native Volunteers August 17, 2024

8/17/2024
Better Lawns and Gardens Hour 1 – Coming to you from the Summit Responsible Solutions Studios. Host and garden expert, Teresa Watkins discusses how native ecosystems are being cleared for development, the preservation of beneficial natives for wildlife and pollinators, that create more ecosystems. Teresa also found an unexpected rare pteridophyte plant called the Whisk Fern in a client´s garden. Garden topics and questions include next week´s weather in the garden, Peruvian apple cactus, herbicide to remove Lemon Bacopa-Water Hyssop from lakes, what´s the difference between shade cloth and frost cloth, issue with schefflera roots, how much sunlight can orchids take, mowed over crape myrtle, is there a rule of thumb for how many plants can fit into a pot, and more. https:/ mly/3c1f5x7 Herbicide for controlling Lemon Bacopa in lakes.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 when to fire your landscaper,” Teresa’s Design Tips; and more. https://bit.ly/2YRBbsT Join Teresa on her national and international garden tours. Check out Art in Bloom Garden Tours for more information! Graphic credit: Teresa Watkins Listen every Saturdays from 7am - 9am EST on WFLA- Orlando. Call in with your garden questions and text messages on 1-888.455.2867 and 23680, Miss the live broadcast? Listen on Audioboom podcast 24/7. https://bit.ly/3c1f5x7 #WFLF #WFLA #FNN #WNDB #BetterLawns #gardening #Florida #planting #gardeninglife #radio #southflorida #northflorida #centralflorida #Deland #SHE #Orlando #Sarasota #Miami #FortLauderdale #podcast #syndicated #BLGradio #WRLN #WiOD #gardening #SummitResponsibleSolutions #QualityGreenSpecialists #BlackKow

Duration:00:39:37

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S2 Ep305: Better Lawns and Gardens - Hour 2 August Gardening Questions August 10, 2024

8/10/2024
Better Lawns and Gardens Hour 2 – Coming to you from the Summit Responsible Solutions Studios, Garden expert, Teresa Watkins answers questions on issues in the landscape. The Dirty Word of the Day is Thatch. Garden topics include how to prune crapemyrtles, declining bottlebrush, lemon bacopa, herbicides for sandspurs, and more. https://bit.ly3c1f5x7 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 when to fire your landscaper,” Teresa’s Design Tips; and more. https://bit.ly/2YRBbsT Want to travel with Teresa on her garden tours? Check out Art in Bloom Garden Tours for more information! Come join Teresa and garden enthusiasts on a future garden tour. Graphic credit: Teresa Watkins Listen every Saturdays from 7am - 9am EST on WFLA- Orlando. Call in with your garden questions and text messages on 1-888.455.2867 and 23680, Miss the live broadcast? Listen on Audioboom podcast 24/7. https://bit.ly/3c1f5x7 #WFLF #WFLA #FNN #WNDB #BetterLawns #gardening #Florida #planting #gardeninglife #radio #southflorida #northflorida #centralflorida #Deland #SHE #Orlando #Sarasota #Miami #FortLauderdale #podcast #syndicated #BLGradio #WRLN #WiOD #gardening #SummitResponsibleSolutions #QualityGreenSpecialists #BlackKow

Duration:00:38:21

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S2 Ep304: Better Lawns and Gardens - Hour 1 World Mosquito Day August 10, 2024

8/10/2024
Better Lawns and Gardens Hour 1 – Coming to you from the Summit Responsible Solutions Studios. Bill Stengel, with Summit Responsible Solutions, joins garden expert and host, Teresa Watkins to chat about World Mosquito Day. Bill talks about Summit’s new Green Armor Insect Repellent that can be sprayed on clothing, tents, furniture, hiking gear, and more. Summit’s spray protects from chiggers, mites, mosquitos, and ticks. Garden topics and questions include red blades of grass, mosquito anecdote, pruning tea roses, podocarpus dying, hibiscus, and more. https://bit.ly/3c1f5x7 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 when to fire your landscaper,” Teresa’s Design Tips; and more. https://bit.ly/2YRBbsT Want to travel with Teresa on her garden tours? Check out Art in Bloom Garden Tours for more information! Come join Teresa and garden enthusiasts on a future garden tour. Graphic credit: Teresa Watkins Listen every Saturdays from 7am - 9am EST on WFLA- Orlando. Call in with your garden questions and text messages on 1-888.455.2867 and 23680, Miss the live broadcast? Listen on Audioboom podcast 24/7. https://bit.ly/3c1f5x7 #WFLF #WFLA #FNN #WNDB #BetterLawns #gardening #Florida #planting #gardeninglife #radio #southflorida #northflorida #centralflorida #Deland #SHE #Orlando #Sarasota #Miami #FortLauderdale #podcast #syndicated #BLGradio #WRLN #WiOD #gardening #SummitResponsibleSolutions #QualityGreenSpecialists #BlackKow

Duration:00:39:36

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S2 Ep303: Better Lawns and Gardens - Hour 2 Seeds or Transplants Aug 3, 2024

8/3/2024
Better Lawns and Gardens Hour 2 – Coming to you from the Summit Responsible Solutions Studios, It’s time to plant your Fall vegetable garden. Garden expert, Teresa Watkins talks about whether to plant seeds or transplants, watering seeds, which vegetables are salt-tolerant, and making your own soil for planting seeds. The Dirty Word of the Day is Pteridomania. Garden topics include potato bags, what to do in your landscape during August, transplanting tomatoes, Heritage Cottage rare and exotic seeds, and more. https://bit.ly3c1f5x7 Teresa’s monthly gardening newsletter, “In Your Backyard” is out this weekend! Read Teresa’s what to do in your landscape tips, Landscape Malpractice: How to know when to fire your landscaper,” Teresa’s Design Tips; and more. https://bit.ly/2YRBbsT Want to travel with Teresa on her garden tours? Check out Art in Bloom Garden Tours for more information! Come join Teresa and other garden enthusiasts on a future garden tour. Graphic credit: Teresa Watkins Listen every Saturdays from 7am - 9am EST on WFLA- Orlando. Call in with your garden questions and text messages on 1-888.455.2867 and 23680, Miss the live broadcast? Listen on Audioboom podcast 24/7. https://bit.ly/3c1f5x7 #WFLF #WFLA #FNN #WNDB #BetterLawns #gardening #Florida #planting #gardeninglife #radio #southflorida #northflorida #centralflorida #Deland #SHE #Orlando #Sarasota #Miami #FortLauderdale #podcast #syndicated #BLGradio #WRLN #WiOD #gardening #SummitResponsibleSolutions #QualityGreenSpecialists #BlackKow

Duration:00:38:57

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S2 Ep303: Better Lawns and Gardens - Hour 1 Weeds - Naturalizing Our Yards August 3, 2024

8/3/2024
Better Lawns and Gardens Hour 1 – Coming to you from the Summit Responsible Solutions Studios. Tropical depression, Debby will bring 3” – 12+” of rain this weekend, garden expert, Teresa Watkins calls for alertness and being prepared. Teresa discusses her newfound appreciation for naturalizing sustainable landscapes by allowing native weeds and wildflowers to grow; not in an unbalanced or neglected mess, but with ecological thoughtfulness and aesthetic intent. Garden topics and questions include white spots on Angel Trumpets, viewing landscapes from inside your home, list of plants for groundcovers, using baking soda as an herbicide, definitions of sunlight amounts, and more. https://bit.ly/3c1f5x7 Teresa's free monthly newsletter, “In Your Backyard” is out this weekend. Read Teresa’s what to do in your landscape tips, Landscape Malpractice: How to know when to fire your landscaper,” Teresa’s Design Tips; and more. https://bit.ly/2YRBbsT Want to travel with Teresa on her garden tours? Check out Art in Bloom Garden Tours for more information! Come join Teresa and other garden enthusiasts on a future garden tour. Graphic credit: Teresa Watkins Listen to Better Lawns and Gardens every Saturdays from 7am - 9am EST on WFLA- Orlando. Call in with your garden questions and text messages on 1-888.455.2867 and 23680, Miss the live broadcast? Listen on Audioboom podcast 24/7. https://bit.ly/3c1f5x7 #WFLF #WFLA #FNN #WNDB #BetterLawns #gardening #Florida #planting #gardeninglife #radio #southflorida #northflorida #centralflorida #Deland #SHE #Orlando #Sarasota #Miami #FortLauderdale #podcast #syndicated #BLGradio #WRLN #WiOD #gardening #SummitResponsibleSolutions #QualityGreenSpecialists #BlackKow

Duration:00:39:36

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S2 Ep302: Better Lawns and Gardens - Hour 2 Your Gardening Questions Answered July 27, 2024

7/27/2024
Better Lawns and Gardens Hour 2 – Coming to you from the Summit Responsible Solutions Studios, Garden expert, Teresa Watkins is feeling the heat with lots of summer gardening questions. The Dirty Word of the Day is Stumpery. Garden topics include a stressed out Australian tree fern, gladiolas; no dragonfruit, pruning a lychee tree; is purslane edible? Black pine tree beetles; planting clover; contorted mulberry; hibiscus having problems with and more. https://bit.ly3c1f5x7 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 when to fire your landscaper,” Teresa’s Design Tips; and more. https://bit.ly/2YRBbsT Want to travel with Teresa on her garden tours? Check out Art in Bloom Garden Tours for more information! Come join Teresa and garden enthusiasts on a future garden tour. Graphic credit: Teresa Watkins Listen every Saturdays from 7am - 9am EST on WFLA- Orlando. Call in with your garden questions and text messages on 1-888.455.2867 and 23680, Miss the live broadcast? Listen on Audioboom podcast 24/7. https://bit.ly/3c1f5x7 #WFLF #WFLA #FNN #WNDB #BetterLawns #gardening #Florida #planting #gardeninglife #radio #southflorida #northflorida #centralflorida #Deland #SHE #Orlando #Sarasota #Miami #FortLauderdale #podcast #syndicated #BLGradio #WRLN #WiOD #gardening #SummitResponsibleSolutions #QualityGreenSpecialists #BlackKow

Duration:00:39:13

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S2 Ep302: Better Lawns and Gardens - Hour 1 National Blueberry Month - How To Grow Blueberries July 27 2024

7/27/2024
Better Lawns and Gardens Hour 1 – Coming to you from the Summit Responsible Solutions Studios. It’s National Blueberry Month! Garden expert, Teresa Watkins discusses growing blueberries with Dana Venrick, Quality Green Specialists Nursery owner. Lizzie loves her marigolds and hibiscus, but bemoans the monsoon rains that are saturating her landscape. Garden topics and questions include Cat whiskers, what to plant in the summer heat, using pine straw as a mulch, fertilizing Bahiagrass, what’s causing a Natchez crapemyrtle’ s sawdust, and more. https://bit.ly/3c1f5x7 UF/IFAS Growing Blueberries 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 when to fire your landscaper,” Teresa’s Design Tips; and more. https://bit.ly/2YRBbsT Want to travel with Teresa on her garden tours? Check out Art in Bloom Garden Tours for more information! Come join Teresa and garden enthusiasts on a future garden tour. Graphic credit: Blueberry.org, Teresa Watkins Listen every Saturdays from 7am - 9am EST on WFLA- Orlando. Call in with your garden questions and text messages on 1-888.455.2867 and 23680, Miss the live broadcast? Listen on Audioboom podcast 24/7. https://bit.ly/3c1f5x7 #WFLF #WFLA #FNN #WNDB #BetterLawns #gardening #Florida #planting #gardeninglife #radio #southflorida #northflorida #centralflorida #Deland #SHE #Orlando #Sarasota #Miami #FortLauderdale #podcast #syndicated #BLGradio #WRLN #WiOD #gardening #SummitResponsibleSolutions #QualityGreenSpecialists #BlackKow

Duration:00:39:06

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S2 Ep301: Better Lawns and Gardens - Hour 2 The Caladium Festival July 20, 2024

7/20/2024
Better Lawns and Gardens Hour 2 – Coming to you from the Summit Responsible Solutions Studios, Garden expert, Teresa Watkins celebrates the colorful tropical plant, caladiums by interviewing the President of Bates Sons & Daughters caldium grower, Terri Bates. Terri previews the upcoming Caladium Festival July 26th , 27th , and 28th, Garden topics include broccoli and parsley varieties, stubborn Bird of Paradise, watering amounts for transplanted loropetalum, hurricane-proof Bird of Paradise, is it okay to fertilize lawn right now, poinsettias and whiteflies, and more. https://bit.ly3c1f5x7 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 when to fire your landscaper,” Teresa’s Design Tips; and more. https://bit.ly/2YRBbsT Want to travel with Teresa on her garden tours? Check out Art in Bloom Garden Tours for more information! Come join Teresa and garden enthusiasts on a future garden tour. Graphic credit: Teresa Watkins Listen every Saturdays from 7am - 9am EST on WFLA- Orlando. Call in with your garden questions and text messages on 1-888.455.2867 and 23680, Miss the live broadcast? Listen on Audioboom podcast 24/7. https://bit.ly/3c1f5x7 #WFLF #WFLA #FNN #WNDB #BetterLawns #gardening #Florida #planting #gardeninglife #radio #southflorida #northflorida #centralflorida #Deland #SHE #Orlando #Sarasota #Miami #FortLauderdale #podcast #syndicated #BLGradio #WRLN #WiOD #gardening #SummitResponsibleSolutions #QualityGreenSpecialists #BlackKow

Duration:00:38:43

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S2 Ep300: Better Lawns and Gardens - Hour 1 Gardens of Ireland July 20. 2024

7/20/2024
Better Lawns and Gardens Hour 1 – Coming to you from the Summit Responsible Solutions Studios. Garden expert, Teresa Watkins is back from leading Art in Bloom “50 Shades of Green garden tour. Teresa discusses the inspirational gardens she visited and new insights on Ireland’s sunset at 11pm at night, Irish weeds, meadows, and wildflowers. Teresa spoke to the Glenties Garden Club, “Early Bloomers” and learned about their gardens. She met with Jeanette, Pauline, Siobhan, Barbara, Sandy, and her cousin, Anne Marie. Their gardens included 5' tall Calla lilies, lavender, David Austin roses, heirloom roses, hydrangeas, astilbe, 'Lucifer' crocosmia hedges, birch trees, camellia, and dianthus. Garden topics and questions include wildflowers, dying palm trees, okra, and Irish grasses, and more. https://bit.ly/3c1f5x7 Want to travel with Teresa on her garden tours? Check out Art in Bloom Garden Tours for more information! Come join Teresa and garden enthusiasts on a future garden tour. Graphic credit: Teresa Watkins Listen every Saturdays from 7am - 9am EST on WFLA- Orlando. Call in with your garden questions and text messages on 1-888.455.2867 and 23680, Miss the live broadcast? Listen on Audioboom podcast 24/7. https://bit.ly/3c1f5x7 #WFLF #WFLA #FNN #WNDB #BetterLawns #gardening #Florida #planting #gardeninglife #radio #southflorida #northflorida #centralflorida #Deland #SHE #Orlando #Sarasota #Miami #FortLauderdale #podcast #syndicated #BLGradio #WRLN #WiOD #gardening #SummitResponsibleSolutions #QualityGreenSpecialists #BlackKow

Duration:00:39:26

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S2 Ep299: Better Lawns and Gardens - Hour 2 Head Start on Fall Vegetable Gardening July 13, 2024

7/20/2024
Better Lawns and Gardens Hour 2 – Coming to you from the Summit Responsible Solutions Studios, Host emeritus, Tom MacCubbin interviews Calvin Gardener, Urban Horticulture Extension Agent at UF/IFAS Extension Orange County on preparing your Fall vegetable gardening. The Dirty Word of the Day is Manure. Gardening questions include citrus tree, mangoes and papaya pest problems, gardening as you get older, Marsh grapefruit rootball issues, Tillandsia weevils, rotting Plumeria, and more. https://bit.ly3c1f5x7 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 when to fire your landscaper,” Teresa’s Design Tips; and more. https://bit.ly/2YRBbsT Want to travel with Teresa on her garden tours? Check out Art in Bloom Garden Tours for more information! Come join Teresa and garden enthusiasts on a future garden tour. Graphic credit: Teresa Watkins Listen every Saturdays from 7am - 9am EST on WFLA- Orlando. Call in with your garden questions and text messages on 1-888.455.2867 and 23680, Miss the live broadcast? Listen on Audioboom podcast 24/7. https://bit.ly/3c1f5x7 #WFLF #WFLA #FNN #WNDB #BetterLawns #gardening #Florida #planting #gardeninglife #radio #southflorida #northflorida #centralflorida #Deland #SHE #Orlando #Sarasota #Miami #FortLauderdale #podcast #syndicated #BLGradio #WRLN #WiOD #gardening #SummitResponsibleSolutions #QualityGreenSpecialists #BlackKow

Duration:00:39:22

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S2 Ep298: Better Lawns and Gardens - Hour 1 Tropical Fruit Trees July 13, 2024

7/20/2024
Better Lawns and Gardens Hour 1 – Coming to you from the Summit Responsible Solutions Studios. Tom MacCubbin, host emeritus fills in for Teresa Watkins, who is on Art in Bloom Garden Tours “50 Shades of Green garden tour. Tom reflects on his past Ireland tours, and interviews Dana Venrick, owner of Quality Green Specialists Nursery, about summer tropical fruit trees, like Blue Java bananas that taste like ice cream. Garden topics and questions include Tom’s favorite tomato varieties, getting rid of weeds during summer, transplanted shrubs watering, how to tell a mango is ripe, mulberries, boysenberries, olive trees, pruning crapemyrtles, Sucker Stopper, sapote fruit tree, lubber grasshoppers, Pakastini mulberry, sweet strawberries, sod webworms in St. Augustinegrass, Take All Root Rot, and more. https://bit.ly/3c1f5x7 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 when to fire your landscaper,” Teresa’s Design Tips; and more. https://bit.ly/2YRBbsT Want to travel with Teresa on her garden tours? Check out Art in Bloom Garden Tours for more information! Come join Teresa and garden enthusiasts on a future garden tour. Graphic credit: Teresa Watkins Listen every Saturdays from 7am - 9am EST on WFLA- Orlando. Call in with your garden questions and text messages on 1-888.455.2867 and 23680, Miss the live broadcast? Listen on Audioboom podcast 24/7. https://bit.ly/3c1f5x7 #WFLF #WFLA #FNN #WNDB #BetterLawns #gardening #Florida #planting #gardeninglife #radio #southflorida #northflorida #centralflorida #Deland #SHE #Orlando #Sarasota #Miami #FortLauderdale #podcast #syndicated #BLGradio #WRLN #WiOD #gardening #SummitResponsibleSolutions #QualityGreenSpecialists #BlackKow

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S2 Ep297: Best of bBetter Lawns and Gardens - Hour 2 Summer Care for Roses

7/20/2024
Happy Memorial Day weekend! This is the Best of Better Lawns and Gardens with Teresa Watkins! Better Lawns and Gardens Hour 2 – Coming to you from Summit Responsible Solutions Studios, Garden expert Teresa Watkins ia joined by Chris Van Cleave, the Redneck Rosarian, to discuss rose care in summer and answers callers’ questions. Other gardening questions and texts include flies in the landscape, replacing dirt from a removed oak tree area, do weeping willows grow in Florida, groundcovers for a sunny area, and more. https://bit.ly/3c1f5x7 Photography 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 #talkradio #southflorida #northflorida #centralflorida #tropical #floridalife #photography #SHE #fertilizer #turf #grass #landscaping #fruits #vegetables #Orlando #Sarasota #Miami #FortLauderdale #BLGradio #WRLN #WiOD #2022 #gardening #fertilizer #SummitResponsibleSolutions #QualityGreenSpecialists #BlackKow #gardentours #travel

Duration:00:53:55

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S2 Ep297: Best of Better Lawns and Gardens - Hour 1 Dr. Bryan Unruh New Soil Test Kit

7/20/2024
Happy Memorial Day weekend! Enjoy the Best of Better Lawns and Gardens with Teresa Watkins. 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 UF/IFAS County Extension office, Amazon, and on SoilTest website. Teresa answers gardening questions on timing of apple trees, propagating Dracaena arboreas, Gerbera daisy not blooming, , Dirty Word of the Day is naturalized, pruning leggy azaleas, and more. https://bit.ly/3c1f5x7 Listen every Saturdays from 7am - 9am EST on WFLA- Orlando. Call in with your garden questions and text messages on 1-888.455.2867 and 23680, Miss the live broadcast? Listen on Audioboom podcast 24/7. https://bit.ly/3c1f5x7 #WFLF #WFLA #FNN #WNDB #WDBO #BetterLawns #gardening #Florida #planting #gardeninglife #radio #southflorida #northflorida #centralflorida #Deland #SHE #Orlando #Sarasota #Miami #FortLauderdale #BLGradio #WRLN #WiOD #gardening #SummitResponsibleSolutions #QualityGreenSpecialists #BlackKow

Duration:00:53:55

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S2 Ep296: Better Lawns and Gardens - Hour 2 What if Lightning Strikes Your Tree? June 29, 2024

6/29/2024
Better Lawns and Gardens Hour 2 – Coming to you from the Summit Responsible Solutions Studios, garden expert Teresa Watkins prepares for summer storms with National Lightning Safety Awareness week by talking with Austin Tollman, Word of Mouth Certified Arborist. Austin talks about what happens to trees when they are hit by lightning, can palms be struck by lightning, and what homeowners should do if they think their trees have been hit. The Dirty Word of the Day is Photoperiodism. Gardening questions include why Seminole pumpkin is rotting, call back on the Agastache bothered by white flies, suggested plants for a low bowl planter, getting rid of spider mites, and torpedo grass herbicide, and more. https://bit.ly3c1f5x7 Want to travel with Teresa on her garden tours? Check out Art in Bloom Garden Tours for more information! Come join Teresa and garden enthusiasts on a future garden tour. Graphic credit: Teresa Watkins Listen every Saturdays from 7am - 9am EST on WFLA- Orlando. Call in with your garden questions and text messages on 1-888.455.2867 and 23680, Miss the live broadcast? Listen on Audioboom podcast 24/7. https://bit.ly/3c1f5x7 #WFLF #WFLA #FNN #WNDB #BetterLawns #gardening #Florida #planting #gardeninglife #radio #southflorida #northflorida #centralflorida #Deland #SHE #Orlando #Sarasota #Miami #FortLauderdale #podcast #syndicated #BLGradio #WRLN #WiOD #gardening #SummitResponsibleSolutions #QualityGreenSpecialists #BlackKow

Duration:00:38:36

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S2 Ep296: Better Lawns and Gardens - Hour 1 The Role of Male Mosquitos and Blackberry Fences June 29, 2024

6/29/2024
Better Lawns and Gardens Hour 1 – Coming to you from the Summit Responsible Solutions Studios. Garden expert Teresa Watkins discusses the new mosquito research with Bill Stengel, Vice President of Summit Responsible Solutions. If only the female mosquito bites, what role do male mosquitos have? Steven Biggs, award-winning host of Food Garden Life News, joins for a great solution to hiding that ugly chain link fence with edibles. Despite abundant rainfall around the county, Producer Lizzie Steele provides details on lack of rain, and her turkey issues. Garden topics and questions include update on tropical storms, what to plant in the month of July, mosquito anecdotes, and more. https://bit.ly/3c1f5x7 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 when to fire your landscaper,” Teresa’s Design Tips; and more. https://bit.ly/2YRBbsT Graphic credit: Teresa Watkins Listen every Saturdays from 7am - 9am EST on WFLA- Orlando. Call in with your garden questions and text messages on 1-888.455.2867 and 23680, Miss the live broadcast? Listen on Audioboom podcast 24/7. https://bit.ly/3c1f5x7 #WFLF #WFLA #FNN #WNDB #BetterLawns #gardening #Florida #planting #gardeninglife #radio #southflorida #northflorida #centralflorida #Deland #SHE #Orlando #Sarasota #Miami #FortLauderdale #podcast #syndicated #BLGradio #WRLN #WiOD #gardening #SummitResponsibleSolutions #QualityGreenSpecialists #BlackKow

Duration:00:42:16