Better Lawns and Gardens

Teresa Watkins
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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 The Better Lawns & Gardens Podcast drops every Monday! Subscribe so you don't miss an episode. Call with your questions at 1-888-455-2967 or text 23680. Subscribe to Teresa's free monthly gardening newsletter "In Your Backyard." #WFLF #WFLA #FNN #BetterLawns #gardening #Florida #planting #gardeninglife #radio #southflorida #northflorida #centralflorida #tropical #floridalife #photography #SHE #fertilizer #turf #grass #landscaping #fruits #vegetables #Orlando #Sarasota #Miami #FortLauderdale #BLGradio #WRLN #WiOD #BlackKow #SummitResponsibleSolutions #QualityGreenSpecialists #iHeart #TeresaWatkins #podcast #liveradio #Southerngardening #South #vegetablegardening #tropicalplants #tropical #iTunes #Amazon #Spotify #SouthernLiving #Bhg #Tampa #Tallahassee #Georgia #Louisiana #Texas #Alabama #landscapingtips #gardenadvice #garden #plants #tropical 

  1. 4d ago

    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 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

    Better Lawns and Gardens - Hour 2 Teresa's Top Tips on Tomatoes August 2, 2026

  2. 4d ago

    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

    Better Lawns and Gardens - Hour 1 Edible Shrubs August 2, 2026

  3. 4d ago

    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

    Better Lawns and Gardens - Teresa's Top Tomato Tips July 25, 2026

  4. 4d ago

    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

    Better Lawns and Gardens - Hour 1 Wins Two Awards! July 25, 2026

  5. 5d ago

    Better Lawns and Gardens - Hour 2 Summer Pest Update August 2, 2026

    Better Lawns and Gardens Hour 2 – Coming to you from the Summit Responsible Solutions Studios.   Guest host Tom MacCubbin interviews Roi Levin, Vice President of Environmental Pest & Lawn Services, who provides and update on summer pests, including chinch bugs. Tom’s Dirty Word of the Day is "Nitrogen".  Garden topics and listener questions include moths, when are watermelons ripe, how to get rid of nutsedge and spurge, tomatoes, billbugs in zoysia, 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.    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 in 2027 for unforgettable garden adventures! Art in Bloom Garden Tours Graphic credit: Teresa Watkins, Lance Walheim 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

    Better Lawns and Gardens - Hour 2 Summer Pest Update August 2, 2026

  6. 5d ago

    Better Lawns and Gardens - Hour 1 Summer Garden Questions August 2, 2026

    Better Lawns and Gardens Hour 1 – Coming to you from the Summit Responsible Solutions Studios. Guest host Tom MacCubbin and producer Lizzie Steele guide listeners through a lively, information‑packed gardening hour focused on navigating Florida’s summer conditions and preparing for the upcoming fall season. Tom shares his Top Five vegetables to plant and answers listener’s garden questions about declining petunias, blackberry pruning, lubber grasshoppers, leggy plants under grow lights, getting rid of wasps, 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

    Better Lawns and Gardens - Hour 1 Summer Garden Questions August 2, 2026

  7. Jul 11

    Better Lawns and Gardens - Hour 2 Sahara Desert Dust and Coral Reefs July 11, 2026

    Better Lawns and Gardens Hour 2 – Coming to you from the Summit Responsible Solutions Studios.   Better Lawns and Gardens host Teresa shares the unexpected benefits of the Saharan Desert Dust to Florida’s coral reefs. Teresa explains the Dirty Word of the Day – Oligotrophic. Garden topics and listener questions include can gourds be planted in Florida, bountiful Seminole pumpkins, lawn sweepers, and more. https://rb.gy/0hzjxx  Saharan Desert Dust and Coral ReefsLandscape 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

    Better Lawns and Gardens - Hour 2 Sahara Desert Dust and Coral Reefs July 11, 2026

  8. Jul 11

    Better Lawns and Gardens - Hour 1 Summer Garden Questions July 11 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, owner of Quality Green Specialists Nursery, for a conversation about summer landscape tasks, the importance of trace minerals for plant health, and common gardening “don’ts.” Teresa’s Top Five zinnia varieties from Burpee that beat the heat! Teresa highlights what to plant and tackle in your July landscape. Garden questions and topics include soil tests, Azomite, proper pruning of deadwood, sunflowers, watermelon, re-braiding Bougainvillea and not blooming, thin ixora bush, and more. https://rb.gy/0hzjxx

    Better Lawns and Gardens - Hour 1 Summer Garden Questions July 11 2026
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Ratings & Reviews

4.4
out of 5
7 Ratings

About

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 The Better Lawns & Gardens Podcast drops every Monday! Subscribe so you don't miss an episode. Call with your questions at 1-888-455-2967 or text 23680. Subscribe to Teresa's free monthly gardening newsletter "In Your Backyard." #WFLF #WFLA #FNN #BetterLawns #gardening #Florida #planting #gardeninglife #radio #southflorida #northflorida #centralflorida #tropical #floridalife #photography #SHE #fertilizer #turf #grass #landscaping #fruits #vegetables #Orlando #Sarasota #Miami #FortLauderdale #BLGradio #WRLN #WiOD #BlackKow #SummitResponsibleSolutions #QualityGreenSpecialists #iHeart #TeresaWatkins #podcast #liveradio #Southerngardening #South #vegetablegardening #tropicalplants #tropical #iTunes #Amazon #Spotify #SouthernLiving #Bhg #Tampa #Tallahassee #Georgia #Louisiana #Texas #Alabama #landscapingtips #gardenadvice #garden #plants #tropical 

Information

  • Creator
    Teresa Watkins
  • Years Active
    2019 - 2026
  • Episodes
    500
  • Rating
    Clean
  • Copyright
    © Teresa Watkins www.she-consulting.com 2001-2025
  • Show Website
    Better Lawns and Gardens

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