 Better Lawns and Gardens  Hour 2 – Teresa talks to one of her favorite garden celebrities, Katie Dubow, president of Garden Media Group about the Garden Trends Report 2022. Learn about localtopia, shoppertainment, and what future gardening trends for 2022 will be! Calls and text questions include when and how to divide lovegrass, Heritage tomato seeds, tomato plants, croton scale,  chemicals to spray on turf weeds, vegetables you can plant right now, and more. https://bit.ly/3mBsq3L Photo Credit:  Garden Media Group Like us on Facebook and please share with your family and friends!   Teresa's third book, "A Gardener's Compendium Volume 3 Gardening with The Senses" is now out!  Listen to Better Lawns and Gardens every Saturday 7 am - 9 am EST.  Call in with your garden questions 1-888-455-2967, or text 23680.  #WFLF #WFLA #FNN #BetterLawns #gardening #Florida #planting #gardeninglife #radio #southflorida #northflorida #centralflorida #tropical #floridalife #photography #SHE #fertilizer #turf #grass #landscaping #fruits #vegetables #Orlando #Tampa #Sarasota #Miami #FortLauderdale #BLGradio #Fall #WRLN #WiOD #GardenMedia #GardenTrends #2022 

In Your Backyard

126: Better Lawns and Gardens - Hour 2 Garden Trends Report 2022 Katie Dubow Oct 9, 2021

 Better Lawns and Gardens Hour 1 - Gardening expert Teresa Watkins, speaks with Dr. Matt Borden, plant consultant on Fall and Winter seasonal disease of Powdery Mildew. Gardening questions and texts include bougainvillea zones and not blooming, bayberry jelly or jam, getting rid of crabgrass, pruning azaleas and ixora, canning materials, getting rid of doveweed, torpedograss, sterilizing garden tools, and more. https://bit.ly/3BolxJc  Photo Credit:  Dr. Matt Borden, Bartlett Tree Service.  Like us on Facebook and please share with your family and friends!   Teresa's third book, "A Gardener's Compendium Volume 3 Gardening with The Senses" is now out!  Listen to Better Lawns and Gardens every Saturday 7 am - 9 am EST.  Call in with your garden questions 1-888-455-2967, or text 23680.  #WFLF #WFLA #FNN #BetterLawns #gardening #Florida #planting #gardeninglife #radio #southflorida #northflorida #centralflorida #tropical #floridalife #photography #SHE #fertilizer #turf #grass #landscaping #fruits #vegetables #Orlando #Tampa #Sarasota #Miami #FortLauderdale #BLGradio #Fall #WRLN #WiOD #October #diseases 

125: Better Lawns - Hour 1 What Can You Do For Powdery Mildew? Dr. Matt Borden October 9, 2021

 Better Lawns and Gardens Hour 2 – Teresa Watkins, garden expert, gets advice on creating beautiful Fall container gardens from the Hoosier Gardener, Jo Ellen Meyers Sharp.  Teresa has a special announcement on her Brandywine Garden Extravaganza Tour in June 2022 of an additional day at the Philadelphia Flower Show!  Gardening questions and texts include grapefruit tree, Cattleya orchids, lubber grasshoppers on amaryllis, Hass avocados, tomatoes and peppers are dying, sooty mold on cocoplum hedges, and more.   https://bit.ly/3fr6SU2 Graphic Credit:  Teresa Watkins Listen to Better Lawns and Gardens every Saturday 7 am - 9 am EST.  Call in with your garden questions at 1.888.455.2867, or text 23680.    #WFLF #WFLA #FNN #BetterLawns #gardening #Florida #planting #gardeninglife #southflorida #northflorida #centralflorida #tropical #floridalife #SHE #fertilizer #turf #grass #landscaping #fruits #vegetables #Orlando #Sarasota #Miami #FortLauderdale #summer #WRLN #WiOD #author #books #gardentour #gardens #botanicalgardens #travel #containergardens #PhiladelphiaFlowerShow #Hoosiers #Indiana #chard 

124: Better Lawns and Gardens Hour 2 - Fall Container Gardens October 2, 2021

 Better Lawns and Gardens Hour 1 – Garden expert Teresa Watkins congratulates Ed Thralls, Extension agent emeritus, on his retirement this week. Ed provides his Fall gardening advice and tips on how to grow pumpkins in Florida. Gardening questions and texts include pony tail and Washingtonia palms, droopy crotons, herbs for Thanksgiving, what to do in the landscape for October, planting macho ferns, and Hawaiian tis losing color - why? And more.   https://bit.ly/3fr6SU2 Photo 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 #radio #southflorida #northflorida #centralflorida #tropical #floridalife #photography #SHE #fertilizer #turf #grass #landscaping #fruits #vegetables #Orlando #Sarasota #Miami #FortLauderdale #BLGradio #WRLN #WiOD #tropicals #landscaping #Fallgardening #pumpkins #Autumn #SHE #sustainable #horticulture #environments

123: Better Lawns and Gardens Hour 1 - Fall Gardening and Pumpkins October 2, 2021

 Better Lawns and Gardens Hour 2 – Teresa Watkins, garden expert, is joined by Sally Cunningham, award winning garden author, garden columnist, feature writer: Buffalo News, Buffalo Spree Magazine, and tour Director, and national Director of the GardenComm organization , get excited talking about their garden tour June 13- 17, 2021 to the Brandywine Valley. Come with us!  Find out more details here. Joelibeth Portillo, owner of Succulents Empire, called to talk about her rare and exotic plant collection in her plant boutique. Gardening questions and texts include transplanting daylilies, insect issue on tomatoes, sweet potatoes, peanuts, sky vine not blooming, disease issue on snake plants, orchid fertilizing, and more.   https://bit.ly/3fr6SU2 Graphic Credit:  Teresa Watkins Listen to Better Lawns and Gardens every Saturday 7 am - 9 am EST.  Call in with your garden questions at 1.888.455.2867, or text 23680.    #WFLF #WFLA #FNN #BetterLawns #gardening #Florida #planting #gardeninglife #southflorida #northflorida #centralflorida #tropical #floridalife #SHE #fertilizer #turf #grass #landscaping #fruits #vegetables #Orlando #Sarasota #Miami #FortLauderdale #summer #WRLN #WiOD #author #books #Buffalo #GardenWalkBuffalo #gardentour #gardens #botanicalgardens #travel 

122: Better Lawns and Gardens - Hour 2 Brandywine Garden Extravaganza Tour September 25, 2021

 Better Lawns and Gardens Hour 1 – Garden expert, Teresa Watkins chats with Dr. Jaret Daniels, curator of the Florida Museum of Natural History and professor of Entomology at the University of Florida about his "hairy bee research". You can upload your photographs of native plasterer bees to iNaturalist. Sad to announce that Jim Thomas, a great environmental leader for Florida passed this week. To honor Jim Thomas's work, donations can be made to Oakland Nature Preserve. Wish a Happy birthday to Tom MacCubbin! Gardening questions and texts include weed killer, growing potatoes in Ocala, weeping small tree for house, repairing St. Augustine turf for HOA, North Florida report from Beverly, lychee tree, tall hibiscus pruning, rust on plumeria, when to prune tea olives, and more.   https://bit.ly/3fr6SU2 Graphic Credit: Dr. Jaret Daniel, ErikaMonster, UF/IFAS 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 #radio #southflorida #northflorida #centralflorida #tropical #floridalife #photography #SHE #fertilizer #turf #grass #landscaping #fruits #vegetables #Orlando #Sarasota #Miami #FortLauderdale #BLGradio #WRLN #WiOD #research #bees #butterflies #pollinators #tropicals #landscaping

122: Better Lawns and Gardens - Hour 1 Dr. Jaret Daniels Hairy Bee Research September 25, 2021

 Better Lawns and Gardens Hour 2 –  Teresa Watkins, garden expert , is thrilled to have award-winning author, Carol J. Michel, to talk about her latest book, Digging and Delighted. In honor of Carol's new book, there is a an appropriate "Dirty Word of the Day." Teresa found a new rare indoor houseplant, Ficus triangularis which she found at her favorite local nursery, Apenberry's Gardens. You can see a photo of my new plant on Better Lawns and Gardens Facebook page. Gardening questions and texts include dwarf oyster plants dying, poinsettia stems dying back, organic herbicides, OMRI lists of organic products; Canary Island date palm disease; watering schedule for new St. Augustinegrass, pineapple fruit; orchid fertilizing, and more.   https://bit.ly/3fr6SU2 Graphic Credit:  Teresa Watkins Listen to Better Lawns and Gardens every Saturday 7 am - 9 am EST.  Call in with your garden questions at 1.888.455.2867, or text 23680.    #WFLF #WFLA #FNN #BetterLawns #gardening #Florida #planting #gardeninglife #southflorida #northflorida #centralflorida #tropical #floridalife #SHE #fertilizer #turf #grass #landscaping #fruits #vegetables #Orlando #Sarasota #Miami #FortLauderdale #summer #WRLN #WiOD #author #books #digging #questionsandanswers #radio #podcast #Maitland 

121: Better Lawns and Gardens - Hour 2 "Digging and Delighted" September 18, 2021

 Better Lawns and Gardens Hour 1 –  Better Lawns and Gardens wins the Best of Maitland 2021 in the Agriculture category!  Yay, Tom MacCubbin and me!  Gardening horticulturist and landscape designer Teresa Watkins chats with Tina McIntyre, Seminole County Extension's Florida-friendly Landscape agent on mulching basics, benefits, and myths.  Teresa has found an exciting new downtown Orlando plant shop - Succulents Empire.  Gardening questions and texts include pruning palm fronds, eggplant not producing, orchids not blooming and what kind of pot do they need, what size container to grow onions, plumeria rust, does eucalyptus mulch float, and more.   https://bit.ly/3fr6SU2 Graphic 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 #radio #southflorida #northflorida #centralflorida #tropical #floridalife #photography #SHE #fertilizer #turf #grass #landscaping #fruits #vegetables #Orlando #Sarasota #Miami #FortLauderdale #BLGradio #WRLN #WiOD #mulch #landscape #podcast #succulents

120: Better Lawns and Gardens - Hour 1 - Fall Mulching September 18, 2021

 Better Lawns and Gardens Hour 2 –  Teresa Watkins, garden expert is joined by renowned landscape authority, Lance Walheim on Fall lawn fertilization. New "Dirty Word of the Day." Gardening questions and texts include turf issues, "not good at lawn care", Florida snow, torpedograss; aphids on milkweed, plumbago growing too big, stink weed removal, tropical sod webworm, and more.   https://bit.ly/3fr6SU2 Photo Credit:  Teresa Watkins Listen to Better Lawns and Gardens every Saturday 7 am - 9 am EST.  Call in with your garden questions at 1.888.455.2867, or text 23680.    #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 #summer #WRLN #WiOD #September #lawns #fertilizer #fertilizaton #grass #lawncare #LanceWalheim 

119: Better Lawns and Gardens - Hour 2 Lawn Fertilization September 11, 2021

 Better Lawns and Gardens Hour 1 –  Teresa Watkins recollects the 20th anniversary of September 11, 2001.  South Florida's Yard-Doc, Carol Bailey shares her years of experience vegetable gardening by the sea.  Producer Lizzie Steele provides background information on her past life in landscape maintenance. Gardening questions and texts include crape myrtles and bougainvilleas. checking indoor patio plants and orchids, how to check your plants for insects, and more.   https://bit.ly/3fr6SU2 Photo 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 #radio #southflorida #northflorida #centralflorida #tropical #floridalife #photography #SHE #fertilizer #turf #grass #landscaping #fruits #vegetables #Orlando #Sarasota #Miami #FortLauderdale #BLGradio #summer #WRLN #WiOD #seaside #ocean #Floridacoast #HobeSound #YardDoc #911 #Neverforget 

118: Better Lawns and Gardens - Hour 1 Oceanfront Vegetable Gardens September 11, 2021

 Better Lawns and Gardens Hour 2 – Still getting her roots situated, girl power with Melissa Fox, and Lizzie Steele, Better Lawns and Gardens' new producer, Teresa Watkins, horticulturist, landscape designer, and garden author, celebrates Labor Day with fruit tree planting tips from Dana Venrick, owner of Quality Green Specialists Nursery in Deland, Florida. New "Dirty Word of the Day." Gardening questions and texts include fig rust, long-time listener Beverly's storm updates, lawn fertilizing, cast iron plants as groundcover, sod installation timing, planting a container-grown avocado tree, fertilizing crape myrtles and azaleas, removing Virginia creeper, indoor Peace lily care, transplanting a feijoa tree, and more.   https://bit.ly/3fr6SU2 Photo Credit:  Teresa Watkins Listen to Better Lawns and Gardens every Saturday 7 am - 9 am EST.  Call in with your garden questions at 1.888.455.2867, or text 23680.    #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 #summer #WRLN #WiOD #QualityGreenSpecialists #fruittrees #LaborDay 

117: Better Lawns and Gardens - Hour 2 Best Tips on Growing Fruit Trees September 4, 2021

 Better Lawns and Gardens Hour 1 –  Happy Labor Day weekend! Teresa Watkins, gardening expert discusses health and time-saving labor tips for gardeners with Ed Thralls, Orange County Extension Horticultural Agent.  Gardening questions and texts include updates on doveweed and pigeon pea, starting a Fall garden, lubber grasshoppers, deadheading pentas, why is my plant dying (?), crape myrtles not blooming, composting with soldier fly bins, and a job request from Morgana, and more.   https://bit.ly/3fr6SU2 Photo Credit:  Creative Commons 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 #radio #southflorida #northflorida #centralflorida #tropical #floridalife #photography #SHE #fertilizer #turf #grass #landscaping #fruits #vegetables #Orlando #Sarasota #Miami #FortLauderdale #BLGradio #summer #WRLN #WiOD #LaborDay #Fall #health #seniors 

117: Better Lawns and Gardens - Hour 1 Labor Day in the Garden September 4, 2021

 Better Lawns and Gardens Hour 2 – Teresa Watkins, horticulturist, landscape designer, and garden author, reflects back on growing up near Cypress Gardens and Slocum Water Gardens with Kathy Jentz, editor and publisher of the award-winning Washington Gardener Magazine, based in Washington, DC. She is also the host of the popular GardenDC Podcast.  Her mission is to turn black thumbs green. A life-long gardener, Kathy believes that growing plants should be stress-free and enjoyable. Her philosophy is inspiration over perspiration  Kathy encourages with great advice on how every landscape needs a water garden. Gardening questions and texts include how to attach air plants and orchids to trees, plant choices for full sun, Ponytail palm in Zone 8, clumping bamboo, and more.   https://bit.ly/3fr6SU2 Photo Credit:  Kathy Jentz.   The International Water Lily and Water Gardening Society The quarterly Water Gardening Journal magazine 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 #radio #southflorida #northflorida #centralflorida #tropical #floridalife #photography #SHE #fertilizer #turf #grass #landscaping #fruits #vegetables #Orlando #Sarasota #Miami #FortLauderdale #BLGradio #summer #WRLN #WiOD #watergardening #waterlily #IWGS #KathyJentz  

116: Better Lawns and Gardens - Hour 2 Water Gardening with Kathy Jentz August 28, 2021

 Better Lawns and Gardens Hour 1 – Teresa Watkins, horticulturist, landscape designer, and garden author, finds out what Leah Brooks, gardener extraordinaire, mom, Tower Garden rep, and experienced community and school gardener. Leah has helped over a thousand families start, maintain, and expand backyard, patio, basement, and kitchen gardens.  Teresa and Leah discuss how easy to grow Fall vegetables in a small space.  Teresa finds a Knight anole in Winter Park. Gardening questions and texts include spots on lemon tree, poinsettia care, clumping bamboo, hydrangeas, and Giant Apostle irises in Florida, removing bougainvillea, coleus, and more.   https://bit.ly/3fr6SU2 Photo 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 #radio #southflorida #northflorida #centralflorida #tropical #floridalife #photography #SHE #fertilizer #turf #grass #landscaping #fruits #vegetables #Orlando #Sarasota #Miami #FortLauderdale #BLGradio #summer #WRLN #WiOD #TowerGarden #aeroponics #Fall   

115: Better Lawns and Gardens - Hour 1 Fall Tower Gardens August 28, 2021

 Better Lawns and Gardens Hour 2 - Gardening expert Teresa Watkins, is joined by The Houseplant Guru, Lisa Eldred Steinkopf on caring for houseplants indoors and outdoors during the summer. Caller and text questions include boxwoods turning yellow, should I remove Australian pine tree, pruning poinsettias, honey bee infestation, fire ants, gardenia variety with the largest bloom, more on moles, container garden on the beach, can I cut pentas back now, and more.  BetterLawns.com Photo Credit:  Teresa WatkinsThe Houseplant Guru books! Like us on Facebook and please share with your family and friends!  Listen to Better Lawns and Gardens every Saturday 7 am - 9 am EST.  Call me with your garden questions at 1-888-455-2967, or text 23680.  #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 #summer #WRLN #WiOD #Extension #August  #WNDB #Houseplants 

114: Better Lawns and Gardens - Hour 2 Houseplant Summer Care August 21, 2021

Garden author, horticulturist, and landscape designer Teresa Watkins provides weekly gardening advice, answers questions on turf, flowers, shrubs and trees, Especially for Florida gardeners and Northern transplants. Topics and interviews include monthly gardening advice on Florida-friendly, low maintenance landscapes, water conservation, themed gardens, and colorful plants for sun or shade. Subscribe to Teresa's free monthly gardening newsletter "In Your Backyard." (http://www.she-consulting.com) Sponsored by Sunniland Professional and All Natural Fertilizers (http://www.sunnilandcorp.com)

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