Episodes

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

    S2 Ep302: Better Lawns and Gardens - Hour 2 Your Gardening Questions Answered July 27, 2024
    Jul 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
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    39 mins
  • S2 Ep302: Better Lawns and Gardens - Hour 1 National Blueberry Month - How To Grow Blueberries July 27 2024

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


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

    S2 Ep301: Better Lawns and Gardens - Hour 2 The Caladium Festival July 20, 2024
    Jul 21 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
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    39 mins
  • S2 Ep300: Better Lawns and Gardens - Hour 1 Gardens of Ireland July 20. 2024

    S2 Ep300: Better Lawns and Gardens - Hour 1 Gardens of Ireland July 20. 2024
    Jul 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
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    39 mins
  • S2 Ep299: Better Lawns and Gardens - Hour 2 Head Start on Fall Vegetable Gardening July 13, 2024

    S2 Ep299: Better Lawns and Gardens - Hour 2 Head Start on Fall Vegetable Gardening July 13, 2024
    Jul 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
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    39 mins
  • S2 Ep298: Better Lawns and Gardens - Hour 1 Tropical Fruit Trees July 13, 2024

    S2 Ep298: Better Lawns and Gardens - Hour 1 Tropical Fruit Trees July 13, 2024
    Jul 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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    40 mins
  • S2 Ep297: Best of bBetter Lawns and Gardens - Hour 2 Summer Care for Roses

    S2 Ep297: Best of bBetter Lawns and Gardens - Hour 2 Summer Care for Roses
    Jul 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
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    54 mins
  • S2 Ep297: Best of Better Lawns and Gardens - Hour 1 Dr. Bryan Unruh New Soil Test Kit

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