Better Lawns & Gardens

Better Lawns & Gardens

Florida's foremost gardening podcast by gardening expert and professional designer, Teresa Watkins!

Episodes

June 14, 2025 39 mins
Dirty Word of the Day is Monocarpic Plants. Fun things to do with Sugar Cane. Teresa answers your questions about crape jasmine, Goji plant & plumeria plants.
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Do you have Sod Webworms? How to treat & prevent future infestation. Mosquito problems on vacation? Teresa is joined by Heather Stickney with Summit Responsible Solutions, our sponsor. Top 5 Vegetable plants which are Bee Attractors.
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It's National Rose Month and Teresa tells you her favorite roses! Weather and what to do in your landscape in June. Teresa answers your garden questions. Sign up for Teresa's Newsletter: "In Your Backyard" at www.she-consulting.com
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Garden expert Teresa Watkins discusses planting olive trees and the best trees to grow in Florida. Dana Venrick, guest, owner of Quality Green Specialist.  Teresa shares what to do in your landscape for June and answers your gardening questions. Teresa's Top Five Pieces of Garden Art. 
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May 31, 2025 38 mins
Dirty Word of the Day: Ha-Ha Landscapes. Teresa answers you questions about: Pineapple plants lack of producing, fertilizing plumeria plant care, growing a Lila Avocado in a containers, why are there mushrooms in my new sod & how often to water it.
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Teresa's Top Five Plants: Chelsea Flower Show Zone Envy. What to grow & can you use crabgrass pre- emergence?
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Tom MacCubbing chats with Bob Hotaling University of Florida Master Gardener, Excellent gardener and good friend about getting seeds to germinate. The Dirty Word of the Day – Nematode. Tom answers your questions on boxwoods seem to do poorly in Central Florida what other alternative plants to use, pineapple guava problems, Italian Cyprus & how the best tomatoes have come out of my compost.
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Tom MacCubbin fills in for Teresa & talks about how he's vegetable garden is going. He answers Listeners questions about; plants wilting after planting, planting a banana tree in a 3 ft deep pot & foxtail palm planted too close to the house. Find out Tom's Top Five Foliage plants for the Landscape.
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May 10, 2025 39 mins
Dirty Word of the Day is Kalanchoe. Teresa answers your questions about copper plant, pruning small young crepe myrtles, a traveling palm & hibiscus tree has aphids.
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May 10, 2025 39 mins
Teresa's Top Five Perfumes with a floral smell. Dana Venrick from Quality Green Specialist educates us on the different varieties of Loquat trees. Teresa answers your questions about growing an arbequina olive tree, how to know if you have webworms & what to plant.
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Difference between fungal & bacterial diseases. The importance of cleaning & sterilizing your gardening tools in-between uses. What to do to help prevent it. Teresa's favorite roses to plant. Get your answers to your questions about growing grapes, can Coral Trees grow here, nematode problems, what does 14.14.14 on fertilizers means & Hollywood Hibiscus.
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May 3, 2025 36 mins
It's National Naked Gardening Day. (1st Saturday of May) Teresa Top Five Mothers Day Plants to buy. Heat tolerate vegetables to plant this month.
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Teresa Watkins' Dirty Word of the Day, Asclepias. Our sponsor, Heather from Summer Responsible Solutions, explains their product "Deer Ban Deer Repellent" and how it works. Teresa answers your questions about blackberry primocanes, money trees, pruning a desert roses, Citrablue grass and Dichondra spreading in St Augustine grass.
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April 19, 2025 39 mins
Teresa Watkin's gives you her Top Five Easter Colored plants. Dana Venrick updates us on what to do with our fruit trees during this drought. General Federation of Women's Club's Dena Morrow chats about the Apopka Art and Foliage Festival. Wait on fertilizing you lawn. Why?
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What is wrong with our soil? Florida friendly landscape information from Tina McIntyre from UF/IFAS Extension Seminole County. Teresa's Dirty Word of the day.
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Water Conservation. What does that mean? Tina McIntyre from UF/IFAS Extension Seminole County breaks it down for us. Hear Teresa's Top Five Palms & she is answering your questions.
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Garden expert Teresa Watkins answers garden questions, and interviews the Sanford Cultural Guild on the Sanford Historic Garden Walk.
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Garden expert Teresa Watkins, promotes Florida Wildflower and Garden Festival, answers questions on growing peonies, keeping weeds under control, and more. "Teresa's Top Five". This week: Landscape Installation Mistakes.
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Teresa’s Dirty Word of the Day is Taproot. Teresa is joined by Jim Putnam, host of HortTube to discuss Southern Living Plant Collection 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.
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Special Guest Dana Venrick covers what to expect at the Florida Wildflower & Garden Festival. Teresa's Top Five Plants with purple flowers. What kind of Herbs should you plant right now.
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