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Better Lawns and Gardens Hour 2 – Garden expert Teresa Watkins interviews Madeline Hooper, host of Gardenfit, about how to find joy rather than discomfort when gardening. Madeline shares simple advice for exercising properly in the garden. Dirty Word of the Day is Florilegium. Garden questions and texts include Art in Bloom Garden Tours, Indian jujube, young gardeners, spraying pear tree, insect control; benefit of Spanish needles, planting an avocado with Black Kow Cow manure, and more.  https://bit.ly/3c1f5x7   

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Better Lawns and Gardens Hour 1 – Coming to you from Summit Responsible Solutions Studios, Happy New Year! Better Lawns and Gardens host Teresa Watkins and Producer Lizzie Steele catch up after a holiday break. Cold front and rain next week. Teresa’s Top Five native plants that flower in winter. Teresa provides what to plant in January. Garden questions and texts include types of evergreen turf, African violets, what to use to stop rabbits from eating calibrachoa, yellow passionflower not fruiting, tomatoes aren’t producing fruit, and more https://bit.ly/3c1f5x7 

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Better Lawns and Gardens Hour 1 – Coming to you from Summit Responsible Solutions Studios. Host Emeritus Tom MacCubbin joins Teresa to discuss the latest herbicide update on Roundup and the available herbicides to use on artillery fern and other weeds. Garden questions include yellowing foliage on hibiscus, herbicides, repositioning a 30-year-old staghorn fern, Foxtail palms’ brown fronds, watering orchid before cold weather; cutting back crape myrtles so close to house, does wind chill affect plants, and more. https://bit.ly/3c1f5x7

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Better Lawns and Gardens Hour 2 – Coming to you from the Summit Responsible Solutions Studios.   Garden expert, Teresa Watkins is joined by the effervescent Katie Dubow, President of Garden Media Group on her predictions for 2026 garden trends. Teresa’s Dirty Word of the Day is Kusumi. Garden topics and questions include what to do in your landscape this month, plant identification, tall varieties of tomatoes, fertilizer, how to collect soil for testing, and more. https://rb.gy/0hzjxxSign up for Teresa’s monthly gardening newsletter, “In Your Backyard” where you can read Teresa’s what to do in your landscape tips, Landscape Malp...

Better Lawns and Gardens Hour 2 – Coming to you from the Summit Responsible Solutions Studios. Happy New Year! Garden expert, Teresa Watkins is joined by Tom MacCubbin and producer Lizzie Steele to discuss new ideas and gardening goals in 2026. New for Florida: Florida’s Full Moon names and symbols. Tom provides his favorite vegetables for 2026, Teresa’s personal favorite garden moments, Tom’s Top Five Landscape survivors, new scientific discoveries and news, and more. https://rb.gy/0hzjxx
 
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Better Lawns and Gardens Hour 1 – Broadcasting live from the Summit Responsible Solutions Studios. Happy New Year! Helping Teresa Watkins celebrate the end of 2025 are Tom MacCubbin and producer Lizzie Steele. Teresa, Tom, and Lizzie discuss Christmas festivities, the record-breaking weather in 2025, garden bucket (pronounced ‘bouquet’) lists for 2026, and their best gardening moments in 2025, and more. https://rb.gy/0hzjxx  
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Better Lawns and Gardens Hour 2 – Coming to you from the Summit Responsible Solutions Studios, Merry Christmas and Happy Hanukah. Garden expert, Teresa Watkins is joined by Dana Venrick, Quality Green Specialists, to discuss poinsettias, how to plant shrubs and trees in December. Dirty Word of the Day is Chill Hours. Gardening questions include how to calculate chill hours in your region, growing apples in Florida, herbicide use on ProVista, Starbust control, and more.  https://bit.ly3c1f5x7

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Better Lawns and Gardens Hour 1 – Coming to you from the Summit Responsible Solutions Studios.  It’s the Winter Solstice. Garden expert Teresa Watkins and producer Lizzie Christmas cookies, December’s cold temperatures, and is there anything you need to do in your garden right now. Teresa’s Top Five plants that hide utilities, a/c units. Garden topics and questions include scratched up Meyer lemons, pruning hibiscus, do seeds need to be cold-stratified, how to grow Donkey Ears, low-maintenance shrubs that only reach 3’ to 4’ tall, and more. https://bit.ly/4diIsZH

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Better Lawns and Gardens Hour 2 – Coming to you from the Summit Responsible Solutions Studios. Garden expert, Teresa Watkins is joined by Renée Wilson on the eve of the Audubon’s traditional Christmas Bird Count. Dirty Word of the Day is Semelparity. Garden topics and questions include what to  plant in the month of December, ‘Phenomenal’ Lavender, time to fertilize mums, replacing lawn, pine mulch to prevent weeds, soil moisture meters, AI hostas, bluebird houses, and more. https://rb.gy/0hzjxx
 
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Better Lawns and Gardens Hour 1 – Broadcasting live from the Summit Responsible Solutions Studios.  Garden expert, Teresa Watkins answers call in and text questions on what to do in your landscape in December. Teresa’s Top Five Christmas songs that mention plants. Garden topics and questions include sod installation, soil moisture meters, fertilizing winter annuals, clusia disease, and more. https://rb.gy/0hzjxx 
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Better Lawns and Gardens Hour 2 – Coming to you from the Summit Responsible Solutions Studios. Garden expert, Teresa Watkins gets Santa’s gift list from Randy Schultz, editor and founder of Home Garden and Homestead. Dirty Word of the Day is Heterophylla. Garden topics and questions include: What to  plant in the month of December, delphiniums, Eileen’s bird feeders, ‘Phenomenal’ Lavender, and more. https://rb.gy/0hzjxx
 
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Better Lawns and Gardens Hour 1 – Broadcasting live from the Summit Responsible Solutions Studios. Celebrating St. Nicholas Day, patron of Christmas gift-giving, Garden expert, Teresa Watkins and Dana Venrick, Quality Green Specialists Nursery talk about stopping by the nursery and giving gift certificates, fruit trees and poinsettias. Teresa’s Top Five Citrus trees resistant to citrus greening. Garden topics and questions include poinsettias, moving rootbound potted Meyers lemon, pruning shrubs, mysterious flower fragrance, and more. https://rb.gy/0hzjxx 
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Better Lawns and Gardens Hour 2 – Coming to you from Summit Responsible Solutions Studios, Garden expert, Teresa Watkins announces the Meet The Authors Party hosted by the National Garden Bureau on Thursday, November 9th. Natalie Carmolli, Proven Winners Color Choice introduces their Deer Proof Plant Program. Garden questions include how much to water Soursop, Lethal Bronzing of Sylvester Palm, fruit tee leaves browning, favorite plant app, how much to water sod, avocado brown tips, and more.  https://bit.ly3c1f5x7

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Better Lawns and Gardens Hour 1 – Coming to you from the Summit Responsible Solutions Studios. Oranges, tangerines, and grapefruit, oh my! Garden expert and host Teresa Watkins interviews @UF /IFAS Lake County Extension ’s new Residential Horticultural agent, Maria Bautista.  Maria advises on how to select a citrus tree and care for it. Lizzie receives a Plant Delights Nursery’s Zephyranthes rain lily ‘Batik’. Teresa’s Top Five Northern-themed trees zoned for Florida. Garden topics and questions: what plants improve your mood; is it the week to sow rye grass seed, update on Milton damaged trees and plants in SW Florida, can I grow Sat...

Better Lawns and Gardens Hour 2 – Coming to you from the Summit Responsible Solutions Studios. Garden expert, Teresa Watkins is joined by her friend, garden author, Jenny Rose Carey, to discuss her newest best-selling book, "The Essential Guide to Bulbs." You can get signed copies of "The Essential Guide to Bulbs" on Jenny's website. Dirty Word of the Day is Geophytes. Garden topics and questions include Bougainvillea ‘Torch Glow’, how to water perennials, where to place bluebird houses, and more. https://rb.gy/0hzjxx
 
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Better Lawns and Gardens Hour 1 – Broadcasting live from the Summit Responsible Solutions Studios. Happy Thanksgiving! Garden specialist Teresa Watkins discusses her gratitude for sponsors, listeners, and conservation organizations like Horse Farms Forever and Florida Land Stewardship Partnership for their efforts. Teresa’s Top Five Colorful Fall Shrubs. Garden questions and topics include removing weeds and adding Black Kow manure, Lychee tree disease, winter-damaged Majesty Palm, dividing poinsettia; lemon trees, propagating Turk’s Cap, what to plant in November, and more. https://rb.gy/0hzjxx 
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Better Lawns and Gardens Hour 2 – Coming to you from the Summit Responsible Solutions Studios.   Garden expert, Teresa Watkins lists botanical plants and materials found in the landscape to create holiday decorations. Dirty Word of the Day is Bacciferous. Garden topics and questions include how trees grow, Norfolk Island Pine trees, more lemon tree questions, flowering tree ID, gardenia leaves turning yellow, and more. https://rb.gy/0hzjxx
 
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Better Lawns and Gardens Hour 1 – Broadcasting live from the Summit Responsible Solutions Studios. Garden specialist Teresa Watkins shares updates on recent weather records and offers advice on planting choices that will help attract migratory birds to your garden. Teresa’s Top Five Favorite native trees to plant for Cedar waxwings. Garden questions and topics include the mulching fruit trees, how to divide staghorns, pinecone gingers,  attracting bluebirds, lemon trees, what to plant in November, and more. https://rb.gy/0hzjxx 
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Better Lawns and Gardens Hour 2 – Coming to you from the Summit Responsible Solutions Studios.   Garden expert, Teresa Watkins finds out how Ray Roberts, retired owner of Central Florida Ferns and Foliage, discovered a fascination with ferns that became his life’s work. Dirty Word of the Day is Tracheophytes. Garden topics and questions include yellowing of lemon tree leaves, whether Christmas Palms need covered with the approaching cold front, Money tree leaves are turning brown, are Sycamore leaves a good mulch, getting rid of creeping indigo, and more. https://rb.gy/0hzjxx
 
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Better Lawns and Gardens Hour 1 – Coming to you from the Summit Responsible Solutions Studios.  Winter temperatures will set earliest arrival of record lows for Florida. Garden expert Teresa Watkins and Dana Venrick, owner of Quality Green Specialists discuss prepping the landscape and protecting tender tropical plants. Teresa’s Top Five Favorite Fall and Winter Blooming Shrubs and Plants. Garden questions and topics include the approaching Arctic blast, trace minerals, possible tropical storm watch in Caribbean, when to irrigate after a freeze, overgrown Sunshine mimosa and Frogfruit, what to plant in November, and more. https://rb.gy/0hzjxx

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Better Lawns and Gardens Hour 2 – Coming to you from the Summit Responsible Solutions Studios.   Garden expert, Teresa Watkins provides the Fall chores to do in your landscaping. Teresa talks about Barilla oven-ready lasagna noodles. Dirty Word of the Day is Woody Lilies. Garden topics and questions include what kind of grass to plant, Plumeria is too tall to cover, more full moon suggestions, and more. https://rb.gy/0hzjxx
 
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Better Lawns and Gardens Hour 1 – Coming to you from the Summit Responsible Solutions Studios.  Garden expert Teresa Watkins is shocked by last week’s rainfall and flooding and explains why it happened. Teresa’s Top Five Florida tips on How to Prepare For Winter. Garden questions and topics include cooler weather, how to subscribe to Teresa’s free monthly “In Your Backyard” newsletter, what to call Florida’s full moons, what to do after flooding, how to protect plumeria, stressed turf, dying Queen palm, what to plant in November, and more. https://rb.gy/0hzjxx 
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Better Lawns and Gardens Hour 2 – Coming to you from the Summit Responsible Solutions Studios.   Garden expert, Teresa Watkins spooks producer Lizzie Steele with deadly plants that can be found in Florida and around the world. Dirty Word of the Day is Anthocyanin. Garden topics and questions include urban legends, safety in growing oleander, differences between Christmas and Thanksgiving cactus, what to do in your Fall garden, and more. https://rb.gy/0hzjxx
 
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Better Lawns and Gardens Hour 1 – Coming to you from the Summit Responsible Solutions Studios.  Garden expert Teresa Watkins celebrates Halloween with her list of black flowers, ornamental grasses and tropical plants. Teresa’s Top Five Florida Black Plants to grow in Florida. Garden questions and topics include cooler weather and expected rainfall for the state, how to subscribe to Teresa’s free monthly “In Your Backyard” newsletter, when to root plumeria, planting carrots, new Floridian wonders if she has thatch and what to do about it, pyrethrins, pear insects, and more. https://rb.gy/0hzjxx 
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Better Lawns and Gardens Hour 2 – Coming to you from the Summit Responsible Solutions Studios.   Garden expert, Teresa Watkins discusses Fall gardening topics. Dirty Word of the Day is Canescent. Garden topics and questions include foraging, plant id, ‘Fire and Ice’ Hibiscus, sweet potato and herbicide, preventing artillerary fern, when to buy chrysanthemums, and more. https://rb.gy/0hzjxx
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Better Lawns and Gardens Hour 1 – Coming to you from the Summit Responsible Solutions Studios.  Garden expert Teresa Watkins is joined by Dana Venrick, owner of Quality Green Specialists Nursery about the best time to plant fruit and nut trees. Teresa’s Top Five Florida Plants For Halloween. Garden questions and topics include upcoming beautiful weather, turf irrigation, growing garlic, new hardwood chips for mulch, pokeweed, persimmons, pecan trees, hibiscus tea, and more. 
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Better Lawns and Gardens Hour 2 – Coming to you from the Summit Responsible Solutions Studios.   Garden expert, Teresa Watkins and Dr. Gary Bachman laugh, discuss seeds, air frying kale, and how to grind peppers to make seasoning. Gary gets to explain his Dirty Word of the Day. Garden topics and questions include Gary’s book “Southern Gardening All Year Long”, marigolds, deer prevention, and more. https://rb.gy/0hzjxx
 
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Better Lawns and Gardens Hour 1 – Coming to you from the Summit Responsible Solutions Studios.  Garden expert Teresa Watkins is joined in the iHeart studios with good friend, Dr. Gary Bachman. Teresa and Gary discuss the Heritage Cottage Urban Nano Farm tomato and pepper seeds, glow-in-the-dark succulents. Garden questions and topics include the upcoming La Nina winter, Teresa’s Top Five Favorite flowers for hanging baskets, overwintering plumeria, spiders, marigolds, citizen research, and more. 
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Better Lawns and Gardens Hour 2 – Coming to you from the Summit Responsible Solutions Studios.   Garden expert, Teresa Watkins Dirty Word of the Day is Corking.  Garden topics and questions include what to do in your landscape in October, blueberry fungus, eradicating sandspurs, avocado and tomatoes, palm trees damaging asphalt, ornamental grasses to plant, great gardens to visit in Alabama, microclover, and more. https://rb.gy/0hzjxx
 
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Better Lawns and Gardens Hour 1 – Coming to you from the Summit Responsible Solutions Studios.  Garden expert Teresa Watkins is saddened by the passing of Dame Patricia Routledge, aka Hyacinth Bucket, pronounced “Bouquet”. Teresa discusses best pumpkin varieties for Florida. Lizzie is happy eggnog is in stock. Garden questions and topics include what to do in landscape this month. Teresa’s Top Five Foliage with Great Plant Texture, amaryllis, hummingbirds in Florida, mysterious red papaya trunk, turf fungicide, new blueberry issues, and more. 
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Better Lawns and Gardens Hour 2 – Coming to you from the Summit Responsible Solutions Studios.   Garden expert, Teresa Watkins is joined by the effervescent Katie Dubow, President of Garden Media Group on her predictions for 2026 garden trends. Teresa’s Dirty Word of the Day is Kusumi. Garden topics and questions include what to do in your landscape this month, plant identification, tall varieties of tomatoes, fertilizer, how to collect soil for testing, and more. https://rb.gy/0hzjxx
 
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Better Lawns and Gardens Hour 1 – Coming to you from the Summit Responsible Solutions Studios.  Garden expert Teresa Watkins talks with Dana Venrick, owner of Quality Green Specialists Nursery in Deland on Fall fertilizing for turf, vegetables and landscape. Teresa tells what to do in landscape this month. Lizzie needs to know how to chill bulbs for her garden. Teresa’s Top Five Favorite Fall Vegetables, and more. 
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Better Lawns and Gardens Hour 2 – Coming to you from Summit Responsible Solutions Studios, Garden expert Teresa Watkins interviews Craig LeHoullier, The Tomato Man on his secrets for growing “Epic Tomatoes.”  Dirty Word of the Day is Amphigean. Teresa discusses “Can you have too many earth worms?” how long to keep black plastic on pots to sterilize them, using lake water for edibles and landscape, lawn issues, and more.  https://bit.ly3c1f5x7

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Better Lawns and Gardens Hour 1 – Coming to you from Summit Responsible Solutions Studios, Garden expert, Teresa Watkins, provides hurricane Ian updates for Florida and ways to prepare your landscape for the hurricane’s arrival. Teresa talks with Dr. Braham Dhillon, Mycologist, UF IFAS Fort Lauderdale Research and Education Center on palm diseases in Florida. Dr. Dhillon has developed a new test for homeowners to determine if they have Ganoderma Butt Rot in their palms. Gardening calls and texts include white powder on palms, should you prune plumeria before or after a hurricane, what kind of soil for containerized citrus lemons, and...

Better Lawns and Gardens Hour 2 – Coming to you from the Summit Responsible Solutions Studios.   Garden expert, Teresa Watkins takes phone calls and text messages on gardening issues. Teresa’s Dirty Word of the Day is Nastic Movements. Garden topics and questions include, what to do in your landscape for September, how long do oak trees live, whiteflies on summer squash, the bane of Teresa’s gardening existence: lubber grasshoppers, and more. https://rb.gy/0hzjxx
 
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Better Lawns and Gardens Hour 1 – Coming to you from the Summit Responsible Solutions Studios.  Teresa and Lizzie chat about their September garden adventures and Lizzies cuddly turkeys. Teresa discusses what to do in landscape for September, her Top Five gardening resources to use.  Garden topics and questions include lawn weeds, zinnia fungus, sandspurs, design, French toast, and more. 
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Better Lawns and Gardens Hour 2 – Coming to you from the Summit Responsible Solutions Studios.   Garden expert, Teresa Watkins, is joined by Roi Levin, Certified Pest Operator/Manager with Environmental Pest and Lawn Services on chinch bug resistance to current pesticides. Teresa’s Dirty Word of the Day is Bogs vs. Fens. Garden topics and questions include, thatch and chinch bugs, herbicides for torpedo grass in Asiatic jasmine, fertilizing and pruning avocado trees, and more. https://rb.gy/0hzjxx
 
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Better Lawns and Gardens Hour 1 – Coming to you from the Summit Responsible Solutions Studios.  Garden expert and host, Teresa Watkins is glad to be back after garden tours and Labor Day weekend. Teresa and Lizzie catch up on Tom MacCubbin and Gary Bachman’s studio visit. Teresa discusses what to do in landscape for September, her Top Five Plants she is on the hunt for and catches up on gardening questions. Garden topics and questions include fertilizing with phosophorus, lubber grasshoppers, chemical presence in soils, insect sprays for the yard, and more. 
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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 f...

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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 incl...

While Teresa Watkins is touring the Highland braes of Scotland, Better Lawns and Gardens host emeritus, Tom MacCubbin, interviews Krista Devor, Lukas Nursery and answering Florida gardeners' questions and texts on WFLA-Orlando.

Better Lawns and Gardens Hour 1 – Coming to you from the Summit Responsible Solutions Studios.  Better Lawns and Gardens Host emeritus, Tom MacCubbin is in the iHeart studio answering gardening questions. 

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Better Lawns and Gardens Hour 1 – Coming to you from the Summit Responsible Solutions Studios.  Better Lawns and Gardens Host emeritus, Tom MacCubbin.

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Better Lawns and Gardens Hour 1 – Coming to you from the Summit Responsible Solutions Studios.  Better Lawns and Gardens Host emeritus, Tom MacCubbin is joined by Dr. Gary Bachman, Heritage Cottage Urban Garden talk about growing pomegranates and answering Florida gardening questions.

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Better Lawns and Gardens Hour 1 – Coming to you from the Summit Responsible Solutions Studios.  Better Lawns and Gardens Host emeritus, Tom MacCubbin is joined by Dr. Gary Bachman, Heritage Cottage Urban Garden to discuss his successful vegetable gardens with Earthboxes.

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Better Lawns and Gardens Hour 1 – Coming to you from the Summit Responsible Solutions Studios.  Garden expert and host, Teresa Watkins talks with Florida gardeners and answers their gardening questions and texts.

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Better Lawns and Gardens Hour 1 – Coming to you from the Summit Responsible Solutions Studios.  Garden expert and host, Teresa Watkins talks with Quality Green Specialists Nursery owner, Dana Venrick, about all the summer heat stress she is seeing in yards and how to deal with it. Dana gives advice on planting trees and shrubs this late in the summer.

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Better Lawns and Gardens Hour 1 – Coming to you from the Summit Responsible Solutions Studios.  Garden expert and host, Teresa Watkins is joined by vivacious garden author, Ellen Zachos on her newest published book, "Mythic Plants."

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Better Lawns and Gardens Hour 1 – Coming to you from the Summit Responsible Solutions Studios.  Garden expert and host, Teresa Watkins is joined by  Jenks Farmer, renowned landscape designer, grower, and garden author to discuss the "Secrets of Southern Gardening." 

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Better Lawns and Gardens Hour 2 – Coming to you from the Summit Responsible Solutions Studios.   Garden expert, Teresa Watkins, is joined by Clay Wallace, head grower at Classic Caladiums, the world's largest caladium grower to discuss the popular tropical plant. Teresa’s Dirty Word of the Day is Bolting. Garden topics and questions include, zucchini not producing, why is hibiscus leaves misshapened, what to grow in July, and more. https://rb.gy/0hzjxx
 
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Better Lawns and Gardens Hour 1 – Coming to you from the Summit Responsible Solutions Studios.  Garden expert and host, Teresa Watkins is joined by Heather Stickney, Summit Responsible Solutions National Sales Manager about their organic Year Round Spray Oil. Teresa’s Top Five beneficial bugs you may not know. Garden topics and questions include summertime fungus, air circulation, sod webworms, how much to irrigate St. Augustinegrass, what to do in your landscape in July, and more. 
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Florida’s most popular garden expert, Teresa Watkins answers your gardening questions on Better Lawns and Gardens. Listen every Saturdays from 7am - 9am EST on WFLA- Orlando and on Audioboom podcast 24/7. https://bit.ly/3c1f5x7

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, phosphorus fertilizer, planting coreopsis, stubborn blueberries, more on Mister Lincoln roses, and more.  https://bit.ly/3c1f5x7 <...

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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 avoid, the impact of climate change for...

Better Lawns and Gardens Hour 2 – Coming to you from the Summit Responsible Solutions Studios.   Garden expert, Teresa discusses the benefits of armadillos and  answers summertime garden questions.  Teresa’s Dirty Word of the Day is Acaulescent. Garden topics and questions include staghorn ferns, best time to prune mangos and more mango varieties, should coffee grounds be used in the landscape, Bird of Paradise not blooming, and more. https://rb.gy/0hzjxx
 
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Better Lawns and Gardens Hour 1 – Coming to you from the Summit Responsible Solutions Studios.  Garden expert and host, Teresa Watkins is into summer answering questions on the best mango varieties, what is the best herbicide for clearing between fences, how to remove a tree stump and stopping suckering, best tomatoes for pest resistance, and more. Teresa provides her TOP FIVE favorite red, white, and blue flower combinations, and more. 
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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 when to fire your landscaper,” Teresa’s Design Tips; and more.  https://rb.gy/gf8k3s

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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 kumquat trees not producing, avocados, mulberry tree not producing, and more.

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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, bat houses, fertilizer for avocado, and more. https://bit.ly/4diIsZH
 
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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 transplanting Drift roses, tasty watermelon, herbicide for shorelines, is using cardboard in garden, weed barriers, and more. https://rb.gy/gf8k3s
 
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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 propagation, and more. https://bit.ly/4diIsZH
 
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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 grow tomatoes in summer in Florida, using moss from trees as mulch, podocarpus declining, is there an olive variety that is pitted and filled with pimento cheese, and more. https://bit.ly/4diIsZH

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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 questions include sick magnolia, fig tree dropping leaves, fertilizing plumeria, encouraging avocado tree to bear more fruit, mangos, papayas, growing avocado in a container, hiding a crape myrtle’s bad side, are mushrooms bad in the lawn, and more. https://bit.ly...

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 storms, preventing elms from suckering, using pre-emergent on St. Augustine lawns, types of colorful shrubs for a white picket fence, and more. https://bit.ly/4diIsZH
 
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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 friend and UF/IFAS Master Gardener, Bob Hotaling about his summer vegetable harvest, how he makes his garden soil, and his best tips for growing tomatoes from seed. Garden topics and questions includ...

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. Garden topics and questions include GMO spinach and peptides, where to plant azaleas, more tomato varieties to plant, perennials for HOA entrances, pruning hibiscus, fertilizing, and more. https://bit.ly/4diIsZH

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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 height, how to make hydrangeas pink or blue, how to grow desert roses, and more.  https://bit.ly3c1f5x7

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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 how to care for an olive tree, Oleo europaea  'Arbequina', more landscape to-dos for May, and more. https://bit.ly/4diIsZH

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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, what to do with tropical milkweed, what’s Teresa’s favorite red roses for Mother’s Day, can you use a 14-14-14 fertilizer on hedges, and more.  https://bit.ly3c1f5x7

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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 Specialists Nursery in Deland and Peterson’s Nursery in Lakeland. Teresa’s Top Five Flowers for Mother’s Day. Garden topics and questions include the infernal drought situation may be coming to an end, digging up daffodils, fertilizing St. Augustinegrass, dividing terrestrial...

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 you’s for information on using micronutrients and upsizing a money tree, mango with squirrel problems, turkey eggs for Easter, CitraBlue turf, pruned Desert Rose not looking well, and more.  https://bit.ly3c1f5x7

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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 My Spring Garden event April 25th and April 26th, 2025.  Dena Morrow, Apopka Women’s Club past president and Foliage Festival Committee provides the details of the upcoming Apopka Art and Foliage Festival, April 26th and Apri...

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 tomato plants, and more.  https://bit.ly3c1f5x7

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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 tree small harvest, what’s a good plant for full sun, money tree leaves turning brown, and more. https://bit.ly/4diIsZH

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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, crotons and ixoras, when to cut back firebush, hibiscus shrub has aphids, can I use Epsom Salts on gardenias, and more.  https://bit.ly3c1f5x7

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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 ixoras, why is my podocarpus hedge dying, cutting back poinsettias, and more. https://bit.ly/4diIsZH

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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 Liaison Gracie Overstreet discuss their new educational program for K – 12th grade, ways to conserve water, and more.  https://bit.ly3c1f5x7

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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 & Garden Festival in Deland, March 29th. Garden topics and questions include crocosmia bulbs arrived, what bulbs and vegetables to plant in March, Lizzie’s turkey poult chores, and more.

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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. Garden questions and topics, gardenia with dark covering leaves, lubber grasshoppers catching, how to find out soil pH of containers and raised beds, cherry tomatoes turning yellow and sour, skinny amaryllis stems, and more.  https://bit.ly3c1f5x7

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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! Teresa’s Top Five Favorite Plants kids can grow! Garden topics and questions include avocado update, best fertilizer for vegetable beds, and more. https://bit.ly/4diIsZH

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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 'Choca Mocha' Cosmos and Lizzie brings up her stinging nettles and her trip to Peterson's Nursery in Lakeland. Garden questions and topics include how to get rid of beggar ticks, black vine weevils, and fire ants, March wra...

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Florida’s most popular garden expert, Teresa Watkins answers your gardening questions on Better Lawns and Gardens. Listen every Saturday from 7am - 9am EST on WFLA- Orlando, iHeart radio, and wherever you listen to podcasts. https://bit.ly/3c1f5x7

Better Lawns and Gardens Hour 2 – Coming to you from the Summit Responsible Solutions Studios, The Irish holiday continues with O’vegetables! Teresa is joined by Gene McAvoy, UF/IFAS Hendry County Regional Specialized Vegetable /Horticulture Agent emeritus to talk about o’nions and o’kra. Dirty Word...

Better Lawns and Gardens Hour 2 – Coming to you from the Summit Responsible Solutions Studios,  Dirty Word of the Day is Bare-bottom Syndrome. Producer Lizzie Steele discusses her peppers and the large pots they need. Garden expert, Teresa helps Jerry learn how to propagate Gloriosa lilies by stem cutting. Gardening questions and topics include what vegetables to plant in March, squirrel issues, calla lily site conditions, can a poinsettia be moved now, and more.  https://bit.ly3c1f5x7

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Better Lawns and Gardens Hour 1 – Coming to you from the Summit Responsible Solutions Studios.  First of March! Spring is nearly here and gardening in is the air! Teresa opens with espying a beautiful Saucer Magnolia which should be struggling in Central Florida but it’s a healthy, bountifully blooming native tree. Comfortable but cooler weather predictions this week. Great gardening week to plant new flowers, shrubs, and trees. Producer Lizzie Steele bought herbs and roses for her garden. Teresa’s Top Five Favorite Plants with Great Texture! Garden topics and questions include overwatering new lawns, irrigation schedule, Satsumas not doing well, m...

Better Lawns and Gardens Hour 2 – Coming to you from the Summit Responsible Solutions Studios,  Garden expert, Teresa Watkins answers caller’s gardening questions every Saturday. Dirty Word of the Day is Blind bulbs. Gardening questions and topics include, chill hours, getting a mulberry to fruit, grapefruit white flecks, time to fertilizer, watering citrus trees, leaf miner, what are net mums, yellowing green bean leaves, and more.  https://bit.ly3c1f5x7

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Better Lawns and Gardens Hour 1 – Coming to you from the Summit Responsible Solutions Studios.  Groundhog Day weather! It’s cold again. Teresa discusses with Dana Venrick, owner of Quality Green Specialists Nursery, the benefits of winter chill hours in producing a good fruit harvest. Dana discusses the importance of fertilizing with micronutrients. Teresa’s Top Five favorite plants with yellow flowers.  Garden topics and questions include pruning and fertilizing Shishi camellias, Teresa’s favorite roses, fire ants on lettuce, can I grow rhododendrons and wisteria, lychee tree care tips, and more. https://bit.ly/4diIsZH

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Better Lawns and Gardens Hour 2 – Coming to you from the Summit Responsible Solutions Studios,  Garden expert, Teresa Watkins gives her tips on creating a night garden and what plants have heart-shaped leaves. Dirty Word of the Day is Cordate. Gardening questions and topics camellias, fertilizer, more avocado questions, fruitful mango trees, does mulch attract termites, foundation plants need to be moved out from under eaves, can pre-emergent herbicides still be applied, and more.  https://bit.ly3c1f5x7

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Better Lawns and Gardens Hour 1 – Coming to you from the Summit Responsible Solutions Studios. Another Polar Vortex on the way! Garden expert Teresa and Lizzie discuss the upcoming gardening weather, protecting the turkeys, and what to do in your landscape. Teresa’s Top Five are ground cover plants that can be planted on septic tanks and in drain fields. Garden topics and questions include refreshing St. Augustinegrass, what could be causing hibiscus’s yellow leaves, do full moons affect when you prune, get ready to buy roses, separating podocarpus plants in one pot, if Elon Musk can send a rocket into s...

Better Lawns and Gardens Hour 2 – Coming to you from the Summit Responsible Solutions Studios, Garden expert, Teresa Watkins is joined by her good friend, Dr. Gary Bachman, Heritage Cottage Urban Nano Farm grower discuss Gary’s organic and unusual tomato and pepper seed varieties for sale. Use DISCOUNT sales code TERESA for 25% off anything at Gary-Grows.com. Dirty Word of the Day is Parthenocarpy. Gardening questions and topics include spiky weed ID, will black roses grow in Florida, sweet myrtle hedge, pruning back pesty lemon tree, and more.  https://bit.ly/4diIsZH

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Better Lawns and Gardens Hour 1 – Coming to you from the Summit Responsible Solutions Studios. What a difference two weeks makes for Florida landsdcapes! Teresa speaks with David White about the Greater Orlando Orchid Society’s Show on Valentine’s Day weekend. Teresa provides the meaning behind Valentine flowers and Teresa’s Top Five fragrant roses. Garden topics and questions include spider mites on Black Diamond crape myrtles, when to mow lawns after ice damage, and more. https://bit.ly/4diIsZH

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Better Lawns and Gardens Hour 2 – Coming to you from the Summit Responsible Solutions Studios,  What does warmer temperatures mean for weeds in your landscape? Garden expert Teresa Watkins discusses how to use preemergents to prevent weeds. Dirty Word of the Day is a bonus of four dirty definitions of types of herbicides. Gardening questions and topics include preemergent, can Siberian iris be pruned back now, Bahiagrass seed and premergents, pruning crape myrtles, sago palms have brown fronds, , and more.  https://bit.ly3c1f5x7

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Better Lawns and Gardens Hour 1 – Coming to you from the Summit Responsible Solutions Studios.  Will Punxatawny Phil see his shadow on Groundhog Day? Garden expert Teresa Watkins provides background information on Punxsutawney Phil’s heritage and his job. Weather for next 10 days is looking great for gardening! Will there be six more weeks of winter? Teresa makes a prediction. Teresa’s Top Five shrubs that provide food for wildlife. Garden topics and questions include what to plant in February, overseeding with Bahiagrass, irrigation needed for raised beds, pineapple guava, and more. https://bit.ly/4diIsZH

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Better Lawns and Gardens Hour 2 – Coming to you from the Summit Responsible Solutions Studios, Garden expert, Teresa Watkins answers winter gardening questions. Dirty Word of the Day is Apical Meristem. Gardening questions and topics include planting tomato, pepper, and eggplant seeds, should I prune, will the snow and freeze kill sandspurs, when to handwater young trees, do oak leaves make good mulch, and more.  https://bit.ly3c1f5x7

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Better Lawns and Gardens Hour 1 – Coming to you from the Summit Responsible Solutions Studios.  What? Another One? Record-setting Polar Blast #3. Let it snow, let it snow. Garden expert Teresa Watkins discusses what will happen in the landscape with Dana Venrick, Quality Green Specialists Nursery owner. Teresa’s Top Five Most Resilient Plants! Garden topics and questions include callers’ experiences with the snow and freeze, Crocosmia bulbs available, temperatures around the state, should pruning be done now, my gardenia – is it dead, and more. https://bit.ly/4diIsZH

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Better Lawns and Gardens Hour 2 – Coming to you from the Summit Responsible Solutions Studios, Garden expert, Teresa Watkins is joined by Diane Blazek, All-American Selections and National Garden Bureau’s Executive Director to announce the Professional’s and People’s Choices for the 2025 Green Thumb Awards. Dirty Word of the Day is “Cut and Come Again.” Gardening questions include getting tomatoes to flower, Plant Delights catalogue arrived, can rye grass be fertilized now, and more.  https://bit.ly3c1f5x7

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Better Lawns and Gardens Hour 1 – Coming to you from the Summit Responsible Solutions Studios. What? Another Polar Blast on its way for the garden week.  Garden expert Teresa Watkins answers winter garden questions and what to do in the vegetable garden. Teresa’s Top Five beautiful annuals and perennials with blue flowers. Garden topics and questions include what to do about the pH in vegetable bed; slime mold; time to add pre-emergent for weeds, suggestion for shade shrub, and more. https://bit.ly/4diIsZH

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Better Lawns and Gardens Hour 2 – Coming to you from Summit Responsible Solutions Studios. Host Emeritus Tom MacCubbin joins Teresa to discuss the latest herbicide update on Roundup and the available herbicides to use on artillery fern and other weeds. Garden questions include yellowing foliage on hibiscus, herbicides, repositioning a 30-year old staghorn fern, Foxtail palms’ brown fronds, watering orchid before cold weather; cutting back crapemyrtles so close to house, does wind chill affect plants, and more. https://bit.ly/3c1f5x7

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Better Lawns and Gardens Hour 1 – Coming to you from Summit Responsible Solutions Studios, Garden expert, Teresa Watkins, explains the Dirty Word of the Day. Kathy Jentz, award-winning garden author and creator of the National Seed Swap Day, January 25th explains how to attend and organize seed swap events in your neighborhood or organization. Garden questions include: indoor houseplant options; vegetables and herbs to plant in January, groundcover for dog yard, transplanting camellia, can Giant Milkweed be propagated, and more. https://bit.ly3c1f5x7
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Better Lawns and Gardens Hour 2 – Coming to you from the Summit Responsible Solutions Studios,  Happy New Year! Garden expert, Teresa Watkins answers winter garden questions and tells what to do in the month of January in the garden. Dirty Word of the Day is Ornamental Plant. Gardening questions include using bark in raised beds, avocado trees and freezing, collard greens: seeds or transplants; saving plumeria seeds, mango trees are flowering – oh no! And more.  https://bit.ly3c1f5x7

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Better Lawns and Gardens Hour 1 – Coming to you from the Summit Responsible Solutions Studios.  Happy New Year! Polar Blast on its way for an extended stay. Garden expert Teresa Watkins and producer Lizzie discuss freeze protection for garden plants, bananas, tropicals. Teresa provides what to plant in January and what to do in your garden. Teresa’s Top Five Landscape Practices to get your New Year in the garden off to a good start. Garden topics and questions include winter annuals to plant for color, stubborn pineapple guava, banana and avocado questions, and more. https://bit.ly/4diIsZH

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Happy New Year's Special with hosts Teresa Watkins, Tom MacCubbin, and Producer Lizzie Steele.

Garden topics include: Happy New Year greetings, "Weather Tis' Nobler", changes in 2024, best garden moments. 

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Happy New Year's Special with hosts Teresa Watkins, Tom MacCubbin, and Producer Lizzie Steele.

Garden topics include New Year's greetings, getting the landscape through winter and into New Year, Dirty Words of 2024, Tom's, Lizzie's, and Teresa's personal garden moments, the 'apple doesn't fall far from the tree' is an unexpected family discovery, and garden goals for 2025.  Gratitude for all of our sponsors including, Black Kow, Summit Responsible Solutions, Quality Green Specialists, and Peterson's Nursery. 

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