Better Lawns and Gardens

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Better Lawns and Gardens episodes

August 22 S2 Ep474: Better Lawns and Gardens - Hour 2 Bug‑Free Labor Day: Smart Outdoor Protection August 22, 2026
From the Summit Responsible Solutions Studios, Landscape designer and garden expert Teresa Watkins, host of the award‑winning Better Lawns and Gardens, presents her Dirty Word of the Day: “Holometabolism.” She’s joined by Heather Stickney, National Sales Marketing Director for Summit Responsible Solutions, to share smart strategies for a bug‑free Labor Day weekend—perfect for picnics, parties, hiking, and camping. Teresa also highlights what to plant in August during the hottest stretch of summer, along with additional listener questions and insights. https://rb.gy/0hzjxx

Sign up for Teresa’s monthly gardening newsletter, “In Your Backyard,” featuring her landscape to‑do tips, Landscape Malpractice: How to Know When to Fire Your Landscaper, Teresa’s design guidance, and more. https://tinyurl.com/53fus33c

Landscape designer and horticulturist Teresa Watkins leads inspiring garden tours to exceptional public and private gardens across America and to iconic, historic landscapes abroad. Join Teresa for unforgettable garden adventures with Art in Bloom Garden Tours.
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Listen every Saturday from 7am–9am EST on WFLA‑Orlando. Call in with your garden questions and text messages at 1‑888‑455‑2867 and 23680. Miss the live broadcast? Listen anytime on the Audioboom podcast. https://rb.gy/gf8k3s

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40 min
August 22 S2 Ep474: Better Lawns and Gardens - Hour 1 The Great Southeast Pollinator Census August 22, 2026
Note: First segment had technical issues.
Better Lawns and Gardens Hour 1 – Coming to you from the Summit Responsible Solutions Studios. Landscape designer and garden expert Teresa Watkins, host of the award‑winning Better Lawns and Gardens, interviews Jeremy Rhoden, UF/IFAS Marion County Extension Urban and Horticultural Agent about The Great Southeast Pollinator Census. Teresa’s Top Five is good news for bees. Teresa answers caller’s garden questions on bees, tangerine issue, getting rid of nutgrass, and more. https://rb.gy/0hzjxx
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

Registration is open for our Art in Bloom Garden Tours for 2027. Come join Teresa on these incredible inspiration and sublime national and international garden tours. You can sign up for the mailing list.
Graphic credit: Teresa Watkins

Registration is open for our Art in Bloom Garden Tours for 2027. Come join Teresa on these incredible inspiration and sublime national and international garden tours. You can sign up for the mailing list. https://www.artinbloomgardentours.com/

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 iHeart radio 24/7!
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31 min
August 16 S2 Ep473: Better Lawns and Gardens - Hour 2 The Pond Monster Water Gardening August 15 2026
Better Lawns and Gardens Hour 2 – Landscape designer and garden expert Teresa Watkins, host of the award‑winning Better Lawns and Gardens, presents her Dirty Word of the Day: “Monocarpy.” She’s joined by Lloyd Lightsey — The Pond Monster — owner of The Pond Monster water‑garden design and installation company, whose passion is “living the Pond Life” through creating stunning water gardens and koi ponds. Together, they dive into timely water garden design and maintenance advice. Teresa shares her August garden care, including what to do for fruits and vegetables during the hottest stretch of summer, plus more listener questions and insights. https://rb.gy/0hzjxx

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://tinyurl.com/53fus33c

Landscape designer and horticulturist Teresa Watkins—host of Florida’s award‑winning Better Lawns and Gardens—leads inspiring garden tours to exceptional public and private gardens across America and to iconic, historic landscapes abroad. Join Teresa for unforgettable garden adventures with Art in Bloom Garden Tours. https://www.she-consulting.com and https://www.artinbloomgardentours.com
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://rb.gy/gf8k3s

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40 min
August 16 S2 Ep473: Better Lawns and Gardens - Hour 1 August in the Garden August 15, 2026
Better Lawns and Gardens Hour 1 – Coming to you from the Summit Responsible Solutions Studios. Landscape designer and garden expert Teresa Watkins, host of the award‑winning Better Lawns and Gardens, breaks down the Dog Days of Summer in the garden, highlights National Potato Day, shares Teresa’s Top Five vegetables to grow in water, and answers listeners’ gardening questions and texts.. Teresa answers caller’s garden questions and update on hanging watermelon, when to grow tomatoes, delicious “Wild Cherry” tomatoes, pigweed, tropical plants, and more. https://rb.gy/0hzjxx
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

Registration is open for our Art in Bloom Garden Tours for 2027. Come join Teresa on these incredible inspiration and sublime national and international garden tours. You can sign up for the mailing list.
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. 0.

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#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
40 min
August 09 S2 Ep472: Better Lawns and Gardens - Hour 2 August Garden Questions and Answers August 8, 2026
Better Lawns and Gardens Hour 2 – Coming to you from the Summit Responsible Solutions Studios. Landscape designer, garden expert, and Better Lawns and Gardens host Teresa Watkins explains how Saharan Desert Dust is influencing Florida’s weather patterns and highlights the state’s most destructive vegetable‑garden pest. She also introduces the Dirty Word of the Day, “heterodichogamous,” and answers listeners’ gardening questions. Topics include trimming winter-recovering mango trees, an update on a night‑blooming cereus, growing avocados, using bamboo as a screening wall, choosing the right soil for container roses, and additional timely garden advice.
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://tinyurl.com/53fus33c

Landscape designer and horticulturist Teresa Watkins—host of Florida’s award‑winning Better Lawns and Gardens—leads inspiring garden tours to exceptional public and private gardens across America and to iconic, historic landscapes abroad. Join Teresa for unforgettable garden adventures with Art in Bloom Garden Tours. https://www.she-consulting.com and https://www.artinbloomgardentours.com
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://rb.gy/gf8k3s

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#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
40 min
August 09 S2 Ep472: Better Lawns and Gardens - Hour 1 August Garden Advice August 8, 2026
Better Lawns and Gardens Hour 1 – Coming to you from the Summit Responsible Solutions Studios. Landscape designer and garden expert Teresa Watkins discusses the upcoming weather and what to do in your landscape during August. Teresa shares how to grow carrots and her Top Five Purple Carrots to grow. Teresa answers caller’s garden questions about different varieties of figs to try, queen palms, substitute for Italian Cypress, thirty-year old azalea beds, fertilizing peach trees, gets an update on the recent declining ‘Phenomenal’ lavender, and more. https://rb.gy/0hzjxx
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

Registration is open for our Art in Bloom Garden Tours for 2027. Come join Teresa on these incredible inspiration and sublime national and international garden tours. You can sign up for the mailing list.
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://rb.gy/0hzjxx
Join me on Facebook, Instagram.

#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
40 min
August 03 S2 Ep471: Better Lawns and Gardens - Hour 2 Teresa's Top Tips on Tomatoes August 2, 2026
Better Lawns and Gardens Hour 2 – Coming to you from the Summit Responsible Solutions Studios. It’s tomato season, and landscape designer, garden expert and host Teresa Watkins shares practical guidance on health benefits, how-to’s on growing tomatoes, and drying them for delicious use in the kitchen. The Dirty Word of the Day pertains to tomatoes: “Locules.” Tereas responds to listeners’ gardening questions. Garden topics and listener questions include what to do in your landscape in August, oak branches dying, how to propagate a cordyline, why do marigolds in pots get spider mites, how to shape a tibouchina shrub into a tree, and more. https://rb.gy/0hzjxx

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://tinyurl.com/53fus33c

Landscape designer Teresa Watkins, host of Florida’s most popular garden radio show, Better Lawns and Gardens, leads exciting garden tours visiting beloved public and private gardens across America, as well as iconic and historic gardens abroad. Join Teresa for unforgettable garden adventures! Art in Bloom Garden Tours

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://rb.gy/gf8k3s

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#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 #BlackKowManure
40 min
August 03 S2 Ep470: Better Lawns and Gardens - Hour 1 Edible Shrubs August 2, 2026
Better Lawns and Gardens Hour 1 – Coming to you from the Summit Responsible Solutions Studios. Landscape designer and garden expert Teresa Watkins welcomes Dana Venrick of Quality Green Specialist Nursery for a discussion on planting edible shrubs and fruit trees to plant in August. Teresa’s Top Five (But Not Favorite) common tomato issues. Teresa answers caller’s garden questions about amaryllis, getting rid of Bahiagrass, and more. https://rb.gy/0hzjxx
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

Check out Art in Bloom Garden Tours for 2026 and 2027. Come join Teresa on these incredible inspiration and sublime national and international garden tours. You can sign up for the mailing list.
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. 0.

Join me on Facebook, Instagram.

#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
40 min
August 02 S2 Ep469: Better Lawns and Gardens - Teresa's Top Tomato Tips July 25, 2026
Better Lawns and Gardens Hour 2 – Coming to you from the Summit Responsible Solutions Studios. It’s hot, hot, hot! Landscape designer, garden author, and host Teresa Watkins provides her best advice on rainfall, irrigation amounts, and reducing stress for your established turf, new plants, new sod. Teresa’s Dirty Word of the Day is “Glomalin.” Garden topics and listener questions include what to do in your landscape in August, tropical spinaches, dying Norfolk Island Pine trees, and more. https://rb.gy/0hzjxx

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://tinyurl.com/53fus33c

Landscape designer Teresa Watkins, host of Florida’s most popular garden radio show, Better Lawns and Gardens, leads exciting garden tours visiting beloved public and private gardens across America, as well as iconic and historic gardens abroad. Join Teresa for unforgettable garden adventures! Art in Bloom Garden Tours

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://rb.gy/gf8k3s

Join me on Facebook, Instagram.

#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 #BlackKowManure
40 min
August 02 S2 Ep468: Better Lawns and Gardens - Hour 1 Wins Two Awards! July 25, 2026
Better Lawns and Gardens Hour 1 – Coming to you from the Summit Responsible Solutions Studios. Host Teresa Watkins and producer Lizzie Steele announce that Better Lawns and Gardens has won two Silver Laurel Awards by Garden Communicators International organization. Florida Full Bat Moon occurs on July 29th at 10:36am EST. Teresa’s Top Five is Off Beat and Wacky Art I Saw This Week on the Art in Bloom Garden Tour. Teresa’s topics include tropical spinaches and what to do in your landscape in August. Teresa answers listener’s garden questions about lavender, removing cactus prickly pear, and more. https://rb.gy/0hzjxx
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

Check out Art in Bloom Garden Tours for 2026 and 2027. Come join Teresa on these incredible inspiration and sublime national and international garden tours. You can sign up for the mailing list.
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://tinyurl.com/bdszsha5
Join me on Facebook, Instagram.

#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
40 min

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Better Lawns and Gardens host, Teresa Watkins, provides gardening advice, landscaping tips, 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