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Retired Navy SEAL Capt. Ryan Croley founded the Warrior For Life Fund (WFLF) in 2012 after never skating or picking up a hockey stick until his mid-thirties, creating an opportunity for veterans, active duty service members, and families to meet and compete on the ice no matter the skill level, ability…or disability. Frank Simonetti played for the Boston Bruins from 1984-1988, and as a Bruins Alumni continues to help raise funds and awareness for people in need through organizations like WFLF. With some pre-game smack talk for the tied series between the Bruins Alumni and WFLF Teams and a conversation about the therapeutic bonds on and off the ice, Dr. Ron talks with Ryan and Frank at Home Base, overlooking the USS Constitution – an appropriate backdrop for a Bostonian Bruin, and a Navy Veteran.Thank you Ryan Coley ,of the Warrior For Life Fund and Frank Simonetti of the Boston Bruins Alumni for your service on and off the ice and for connecting people through the great sport of hockey. Thanks for visiting us at Home Base and for all your work in bringing the Bruins-Military worlds together for some great therapy and great times. Special thanks to colleague Dr. Joe Bonvie who has been bringing sport, psychology and service together with passion for many years.Make sure to check out the BFit Challenge that will take place January 28th 2024, or sign up virtually for January 19th-26th, and the Home Base BFitTeam!Ryan's wife Annie Tamburello is a SLP and Brain Injury Specialist who treats veterans, servicemembers and civilians with TBI who need cognitive rehab. Check out Cortex Initiative at VA Beach for more information. Through the WFLF they are doing great work, and along with Frank Simonetti and others it's about that impact factor and showing that support for those who need the help.Home Base Nation is the official podcast for Home Base Program for Veterans and Military Families – Our team sees veterans, servicemembers and their families addressing the invisible wounds of war at no cost. This is all made possible thanks to a grateful nation – And if you want to learn more on how you can help, visit us at www.homebase.org, or if you or anyone you know would like to connect to care, you can also reach us at 617-724-5202.Theme music for Home Base Nation: "Rolling the Tree" by The Butler FrogsFollow Home Base on Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, LinkedInThe Home Base Nation Team is Steve Monaco, Army Veteran Kelly Field, Justin Scheinert, Chuck Clough, with COO Michael Allard, Brigadier General Jack Hammond, and Peter Smyth.Producer and Host: Dr. Ron HirschbergAssistant Producer, Editor: Chuck CloughChairman, Home Base Media Lab: Peter SmythThe views expressed by guests to the Home Base Nation podcast are their own and their appearance on the program does not imply an endorsement of them or any entity they represent. Views and opinions expressed by guests are those of the guests and do not necessarily reflect the view of the Massachusetts General Hospital, Home Base, the Red Sox Foundation or any of its officials.
Better Lawns and Gardens Hour 1 – Coming to you from Summit Responsible Solutions Studios, Garden expert Teresa Watkins provides details of her vacation to Massachusetts, North Carolina, and Rhode Island. Her “Rhod trip” to visit Rhodwood, the inspirational home of North Carolina's most outstanding landscape designer, Jay Sifford. Teresa describes her new plants for her landscape and her discovery that leads to new insights of the Kingston Trio's song, “Tom Dooley” and finding the burial place of her 7th and 8th great grandparents. Gardening questions and texts include the niece of the lyricist of “Tom Dooley,” propagating dwarf papaya seeds,the real name of a butterfly bush, solution to “take-all-root rot, and more. https://bit.ly/3c1f5x7 Photo credit of Rhodwood: 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 #gardeninglife #talkradio #southflorida #northflorida #centralflorida #tropical #floridalife #SHE #landscaping #Orlando #Sarasota #Miami #FortLauderdale #BLGradio #WRLN #WiOD #gardening #SummitResponsibleSolutions #QualityGreenSpecialists #BlackKow 3Rhodwood #NorthCarolina #nursery #PlantDelights #JaySifford
Better Lawns and Gardens Hour 2 – Coming to you from Summit Responsible Solutions Studios, Gardening expert Teresa Watkins chats about her recent vacation and her visit with Tony Avent, Plant Delights Nursery. She learns about “crevice gardens” trends invented by Tony Avent, plantsman and proprietor. The Dirty Word of the Day is mangave. Garden calls and texts include how to prepare old potting soil for use in container, jacaranda tree not thriving, pineapple harvesting, what to do with coffee grounds, when to trim bottlebrush, brown spots on hydrangea, small fruit o red pear cactus, pruning palms and palm fruits, and more. https://bit.ly/3c1f5x7ed Photo credit: of Teresa's Crevice Garden 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 #gardeninglife #talkradio #southflorida #northflorida #centralflorida #tropical #floridalife #SHE #landscaping #Orlando #Sarasota #Miami #FortLauderdale #BLGradio #WRLN #WiOD #gardening #SummitResponsibleSolutions #QualityGreenSpecialists #BlackKow #NorthCarolina #nursery #PlantDelights #Tony Avent #mangaves #succulents
Better Lawns and Gardens Hour 2 – Coming to you from Summit Responsible Solutions Studios, Garden expert Teresa Watkins discusses responsible pest control, Summer control of mosquitos with Summit Mosquito Bits and Dunks. with Randy Schultz, editor of the award-winning Home Garden and Homestead website. Dirty Word of the Day. Gardening questions and texts include how to control root nematodes in the vegetable garden, propagating gardenias, and more. https://bit.ly/3c1f5x7 Graphic credit: Summit Chemicals, Home Garden and Homestead, 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 #gardeninglife #talkradio #southflorida #northflorida #centralflorida #tropical #floridalife #SHE #landscaping #Orlando #Sarasota #Miami #FortLauderdale #BLGradio #WRLN #WiOD #gardening #SummitResponsibleSolutions #QualityGreenSpecialists #BlackKow #mosquitos #homegardenandhomestead #homesteading
Better Lawns and Gardens Hour 1 – Coming to you from Summit Responsible Solutions Studios, Gardening expert Teresa Watkins discusses the only low-volume irrigation system she recommends for Florida gardens with Mister Landscaper representative, Jo Reese. Teresa highlights her newest tropical beauties for shade and indoor containers, and what to do in your landscape for the month of August. Gardening calls and texts include alternatives for Mexican petunia, pepper and tomato pests, do and more. https://bit.ly/3c1f5x7 Photos of Teresa's new tropical plant collection: https://bit.ly/3oWpKzk Graphic credit: Mister Landscaper, 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 #gardeninglife #talkradio #southflorida #northflorida #centralflorida #tropical #floridalife #SHE #landscaping #Orlando #Sarasota #Miami #FortLauderdale #BLGradio #WRLN #WiOD #gardening #SummitResponsibleSolutions #QualityGreenSpecialists #BlackKow #MisterLandscaper #waterconservation #lowvolume #irrigation
Better Lawns and Gardens Hour 2 – Coming to you from Summit Responsible Solutions Studios, Garden expert Teresa Watkins is saddened at the news that the Monarch Butterfly species has been put on the Endangered Species list but Garden for Wildlife Senior Director, Mary Phillips explains the designation and how planting the right native plants will help protect Monarch butterflies. Teresa and Mary also discuss the newly named invasive species of “Feral Cats.” Gardening questions and texts include why isn't my corn growing taller, what color of bell pepper to buy from the produce section to get seeds, design question: is it better to install in summer or winter for best irrigation conservation, how to get beautiful crape myrtles like they have in North Carolina, Monarch butterfly, no chrysalises, benefits of feral cats, when to cut back lantana during the year, avocado tree not producing fruit, can I cut cypress knees in my lawn, and more. https://bit.ly/3c1f5x7 National Wildlife Federation "Keeping Birds Safe from Outdoor Cats" https://bit.ly/3ziyjJl 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 #gardeninglife #talkradio #southflorida #northflorida #centralflorida #tropical #floridalife #SHE #landscaping #Orlando #Sarasota #Miami #FortLauderdale #BLGradio #WRLN #WiOD #gardening #SummitResponsibleSolutions #QualityGreenSpecialists #BlackKow #GardenforWildlife #NWF #Pollinators #butterflies #Feralcats #caturday
Better Lawns and Gardens Hour 1 – Coming to you from Summit Responsible Solutions Studios, Gardening expert Teresa Watkins is joined by QualityGreenSpecialist Nursery owner, @DanaVenrick, to discuss how Azomite‘s beneficial minerals help Florida sandy soils for better plant health. Teresa updates on having hope for growing citrus again in Florida despite citrus greening. Proper use of herbicides in summertime. Gardening calls and texts include amendments for raised beds and houseplants, removing moss from sago, clover-like weed in turf, propagating crape myrtle from sucker, and more. https://bit.ly/3c1f5x7 Graphic credit: @Azomite, 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 #gardeninglife #talkradio #southflorida #northflorida #centralflorida #tropical #floridalife #SHE #landscaping #Orlando #Sarasota #Miami #FortLauderdale #BLGradio #WRLN #WSKY973 #WiOD #gardening #SummitResponsibleSolutions #QualityGreenSpecialists #BlackKow #FloridaNewsNetwork
Better Lawns and Gardens Hour 1 – Coming to you from Summit Responsible Solutions Studios, Gardening expert Teresa Watkins discusses hot summer weather, rain storms, tropical vegetables to plant, and beneficial bugs. July is an optimal time to solarize your weedy garden bed. . Gardening calls and texts include watering an indoor kalanchoe, oleander caterpillars, milkweed bugs, and more. https://bit.ly/3c1f5x744 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
Better Lawns and Gardens Hour 2 – Coming to you from Summit Responsible Solutions Studios, Garden expert Teresa Watkins ia joined by Chris VanCleave, 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
Better Lawns and Gardens Hour 2 – Coming to you from Summit Responsible Solutions Studios, Garden expert Teresa Watkins discusses summertime issues and what to do in your backyard. Garden questions and texts includes getting rid of snails, perennials under a pygmy date palm, fertilizing mangos and citrus, planting crocosmia and celery in containers, plumeria, book on bromeliads, spots in lawns, is it mildew or Asian Cycad Scale on sago palm, plants keep dying under tree, and more. https://bit.ly/3c1f5x7 @SouthernLivingmag “Pros and Cons on Growing Clover Lawns.” Photography credits: 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 #2022 #gardening #fertilizer #SummitResponsibleSolutions #QualityGreenSpecialists #BlackKow #gardentours #travel
Better Lawns and Gardens Hour 1 – Coming to you from Summit Responsible Solutions Studios, Gardening expert Teresa Watkins provides advice on when and how much to water to prevent fungal diseases in summertime turf. Have you ever thought of growing crocosmias? They are beautiful and easy to grow in Florida! Easy alternative to turf? Check out Southern Living's Pros and Cons of Clover Lawns. Gardening calls and texts include controlling weeds in Bermudagrass, invasive Bolivian sunflowers and elephant ears, pruning avocados and hibiscus, Agama lizards, olive tree blooms, and more. https://bit.ly/3c1f5x7 @SouthernLiving Pros and Cons on Growing Clover Lawns Growing Crocosmia UF EDIS Photography credits: 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 #2022 #gardening #fertilizer #SummitResponsibleSolutions #QualityGreenSpecialists #BlackKow #gardentours #travel
Better Lawns and Gardens Hour 2 – Coming to you from Summit Responsible Solutions Studios, Garden expert Teresa Watkins describes her recent Brandywine Garden Extravaganza Tour to America's Garden Capital. The tour group visited Chanticleer Garden, Longwood Botanical Gardens, Winterthur Museum, Gardens, and Library, and Bartram's Garden. Tour photographs will be uploaded to Better Lawns and Gardens Facebook page. Dirty Word of the Day is evapotranspiration. Garden questions and texts includes how to listen to Better Lawns and Gardens podcasts, invasive African snails, growing St Augustinegrass under Norfolk Island pines. BONIDE Captain Jack's™ Deadbug Brew, plumeria scale, and growing hydrangeas in Central Florida and more. https://bit.ly/3c1f5x7 Graphic and photography credits: 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 #2022 #gardening #fertilizer #SummitResponsibleSolutions #QualityGreenSpecialists #BlackKow #gardentours #travel
Better Lawns and Gardens Hour 1 – Coming to you from Summit Responsible Solutions Studios, Gardening expert Teresa Watkins returns back from Brandywine Garden Extravaganza Tour with much appreciation to Tom MacCubbin who filled in as host emeritus during her trip. Dana Venrick, owner of the native tree nursery Quality Green Specialists in Deland, reminds gardeners to watch for wilting in the summer garden. Gardening calls and texts include hurricanes and rainfall, more weather, African snails, what to do in July in your garden, and more. https://bit.ly/3c1f5x7 Graphic and photography credits: 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 #2022 #gardening #fertilizer #SummitResponsibleSolutions #QualityGreenSpecialists #BlackKow #gardentours #travel
Better Lawns and Gardens Hour 1 – Coming to you from Summit Responsible Solutions Studios, Gardening expert Teresa Watkins celebrates National Mosquito Control Week with Bill Stengel, National Sales Director for Summit Responsible Solutions, maker of organic Mosquito Bits and Dunks. Teresa provides the devastating results of Citrus Greening ,to Florida's citrus industry. Gardening calls and texts include compost ingredients, weather, what to do in June in your garden, and more. https://bit.ly/3c1f5x7 Graphic and photography credits: 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 #2022 #gardening #fertilizer #SummitResponsibleSolutions #QualityGreenSpecialists #BlackKow #gardentours #travel
Better Lawns and Gardens Hour 1 – Coming to you from Summit Responsible Solutions Studios, Gardening expert and Better Lawns and Gardens Host Emeritus, Tom MacCubbin fills in for Teresa Watkins on her garden tour to the Brandywine Valley, America's Garden Capital. Tom discusses the current incredibly hot temperatures, Father's Day gifts, National Pollinator Week, and summer starting, with preparations for a Fall vegetable and fruit gardening season with longtime listener and friend, Jim Alison, in North Florida. Gardening calls and texts include best peach varieties for Florida, tomato plants declining, how does heat index affects plants, putting holes in containers for drainage, how often to water sod, groundcover varieties, and more. https://bit.ly/3c1f5x7 Father's Day Gifts – Tom MacCubbin's Booiks https://amzn.to/3xBlDMU Lance Walheim's Books https://amzn.to/3tKegS2 Graphic and photography credits: 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 #2022 #gardening #fertilizer #SummitResponsibleSolutions #QualityGreenSpecialists #BlackKow #gardentours #travel
Better Lawns and Gardens Hour 2 – Coming to you from Summit Responsible Solutions Studios, Garden expert Teresa Watkins answers questions and provides advice on planting, pruning, growing vegetables, landscape design, and pest problems. Teresa interviews the delightful, down to earth, down home, retired Extension Horticulture Specialist from the University of Tennessee. Carol Reese is a nationally-known speaker, who blends gardening knowledge, natural lore, and her quirky humor to educate and explain horticulture to her audiences. A columnist in several newspapers and a writer for gardening magazines, Carol “attributes her love of horticulture to being raised on a farm by generations of plant nuts, including a grandfather who dynamited his garden spot each spring to “break up his hard pan.” It was very cathartic to listen to Carol's blend of instinctive and academic philosophy, Dirty Word of the Day is fenestration. Garden questions and texts include update on North Florida weather, apple varieties for the Tampa area, agreement with Carol Reese, gardenia dead branches, how to transplant a tree, fertilizing, invasives, and more. https://bit.ly/3c1f5x7 Contact Carol Reese: https://bit.ly/3y1yIQV Graphic and photography credits: Carol Reese, 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 #2022 #gardening #fertilizer #SummitResponsibleSolutions #QualityGreenSpecialists #BlackKow #natives #CarolReese
Better Lawns and Gardens Hour 2 – Coming to you from Summit Responsible Solutions Studios, Tom MacCubbin, Host Emeritus for 34 years fills in for Teresa Watkins who is touring Brandywine Valley gardens this week. Dirty Word of the Day is “mudding in.:” Tom interviews Lance Walheim, horticulturist, farmer, and garden author on his move to a new zone, new garden climate in Portland, Oregon. Garden questions and texts include propagating rain lilies, how to get rid of Virginia Creeper, slow-growing grapefruit tree, Chaya tree not doing well, groundcover varieties, wilting mango trees, small green worms – help, getting rid of Brazilian Pepper, irrigation pressure, and more. https://bit.ly/3c1f5x7 Father's Day gifts: Tom MacCubbin's Gardening Books: https://amzn.to/3xBlDMU Lance Walheim's Gardening Books: https://amzn.to/3tKegS2 Graphic and photography credits: Lance Walheim 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 #2022 #gardening #fertilizer #SummitResponsibleSolutions #QualityGreenSpecialists #BlackKow #gardentours #travel
Better Lawns and Gardens Hour 1 – Coming to you from Summit Responsible Solutions Studios, Gardening expert Teresa Watkins prepares for the start of hurricane season with reminders on turning irrigation systems off, hurricane preparations, don't forget your grill! Then Dana Venrick, owner of Quality Green Specialists in Deland. provides information on how to take care of trees before and after a storm. Gardening calls and texts include new turf is bouncy, could it be moles, where to place a statue in the garden, types of grass that will grow in Florida sandy soils, and more! https://bit.ly/3c1f5x7 Graphic Credits: Creative Commons, 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 #2022 #gardening #fertilizer #SummitResponsibleSolutions #QualityGreenSpecialists #BlackKow #gardentours #travel #hurricanes #storms #wind
Better Lawns and Gardens Hour 2 – Coming to you from Summit Responsible Solutions Studios, Garden expert and host, Teresa Watkins, is thrilled to find a generous local group that brings plants to local community. Susan Roghair describes her gardening Facebook Group “Take A Plant, Leave A Plant, Tampa” and how she shares the love of gardening with others. Garden questions and texts include declining fig tree, extensive oak tree roots, how to tackle a third of acre of weeds, list of plants that can be grown hydroponically, can you cut down a firespike right now, getting rid of ants in containers, and more. https://bit.ly/3c1f5x7 Florida Flora Facebook group. Graphic and photography credits: Susan Roghair, 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 #2022 #gardening #fertilizer #SummitResponsibleSolutions #QualityGreenSpecialists #BlackKow #gardentours #travel #plantswaps #sharing #plants #Tampa
Better Lawns and Gardens Hour 2 – Coming to you from Summit Responsible Solutions Studios, Garden expert and host, Teresa Watkins, talks to garden authors, Kathy Jentz and Teresa Speight, about their best-selling garden book, The Urban Gardener: 101 Ways To Grow Food and Beauty in the City and Black Flora: Profiles of Inspiring Black Farmers + Florists. Dirty Word of the Day is “Plant Habit.” Garden questions and texts include Christmas palms, replacing a hibiscus, sick Meyer's lemon tree, lawn and weed killer for pet owner, moles part 2, growing vegetables hydroponically, pruning gardenia bushes, magnolia tree fertilizer, orchid not blooming, pruning Knockout roses, and more. https://bit.ly/3c1f5x7 Graphic Credits: 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 #2022 #gardening #fertilizer #SummitResponsibleSolutions #QualityGreenSpecialists #BlackKow #gardentours #travel
Better Lawns and Gardens Hour 1 – Coming to you from Summit Responsible Solutions Studios, Gardening expert Teresa Watkins remembers the history of Memorial Day and responds to the overflow of text messages asking garden questions. Gardening calls and texts include strong winds during storm, thriving peppers and tomatoes in the heat, when to fertilize, twenty-year-old declining grapefruit tree, avocado with two trunks, getting rid of moles, and more! https://bit.ly/3c1f5x7 Graphic Credits: Arlington National Cemetery, Public domain, 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 #2022 #gardening #fertilizer #SummitResponsibleSolutions #QualityGreenSpecialists #BlackKow #gardentours #travel
Better Lawns and Gardens Hour 2 – Coming to you from Summit Responsible Solutions Studios, Garden expert and host, Teresa Watkins learns more about the art of Bonsai gardening with professional bonsai artist, Adam Lavigne. Dirty Word of the Day is “Bonsai.” Garden questions and texts include pepper and bean seeds, funny definition of bonsai, seed starter kits, pruning bird of paradise, blue Chinese wisteria; getting rid of exploding trumpet vine, watering succulents, how to find a bee hive rental, peonies , and more. https://bit.ly/3c1f5x7 More links to Bonsai groups in Florida: Bonsai Society of Florida Central Florida Bonsai Club Bonsai Convention in Orlando May 27 – 29, 2022. Graphic Credits: 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 #2022 #gardening #fertilizer #SummitResponsibleSolutions #QualityGreenSpecialists #BlackKow #gardentours #travel #bonsai
Better Lawns and Gardens Hour 1 – Coming to you from Summit Responsible Solutions Studios, Gardening expert Teresa Watkins chats with Leah Brooks, Tower Garden rep, about all the green vegetables you can grow in your garden during the Summer. Teresa reminds everyone of the summertime fertilizer ban approaching on June 1st through September 30th. Gardening calls and texts include vegetable trellises, yellowing gardenias, toadstools, do bromeliads need fertilizing, coddling moths, sago with multiple heads, and more! https://bit.ly/3c1f5x7 Graphic Credits: 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 #2022 #gardening #fertilizer #SummitResponsibleSolutions #QualityGreenSpecialists #BlackKow #gardentours #travel #Summer #vegetables #TowerGarden
Better Lawns and Gardens Hour 1 – Coming to you from Summit Responsible Solutions Studios, Host and garden expert, Teresa Watkins discusses planting legacy trees for upcoming holidays like Memorial Day and Father's Day, Azomite, and edible fruit trees, with Dana Venrick, owner of Quality Green Specialists nursery in downtown Deland. Gardening calls and texts include cutting a 4' hedge, pineapple guava not fruiting, how much to water Bahia grass, pomegranate tree flowers falling off, upsizing Perfecto Mundo azalea into larger pot, needing two trees for fruit pollination, herbicide killed grass, too, and much more! https://bit.ly/3c1f5x7 Photograph and graphic credits: 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 #Naples #BLGradio #WRLN #WiOD #2022 #gardening #fertilizer #SummitResponsibleSolutions #QualityGreenSpecialists #BlackKow #gardentours #travel #Spring #May
Better Lawns and Gardens Hour 2 – Coming to you from Summit Responsible Solutions Studios, Garden expert and host, Teresa Watkins responds to audience gardening questions. Dirty Word of the Day is “Dioecious.” Garden questions and texts include watering new lawn, young bluebirds and hummingbirds in Tallahassee, half-dead bougainvillea, firebush issue, using Spanish moss as an orchid basket liner, Azomite, something's eating my crotons, Waterwise Landscaping database, loquat, palm trees removed, can they be used as mulch, Whirling butterflies, sago cycad pups, and much more. https://bit.ly/3c1f5x7 Photograph and Graphic Credits: 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 #Naples #BLGradio #WRLN #WiOD #2022 #gardening #fertilizer #SummitResponsibleSolutions #QualityGreenSpecialists #BlackKow #gardentours #travel #Spring #May #Moon #SuperFlowerBloodMoon #Eclipse
Better Lawns and Gardens Hour 2 – Coming to you from Summit Responsible Solutions Studios, Garden expert and host, Teresa Watkins enjoys caller's gardening with their Mother memories. Dirty Word of the Day is “Mother Plant.” Garden questions and texts include sago palm, how to separate a staghorn fern, leaf miner damage, watering aloe plants, Barbados cherry and Japanese boxwood salt tolerance, when to prune an avocado tree, clay soil dilemma, what is the blooming purple flowering tree, what' the difference between raised garden bed soil and garden soil, and more. https://bit.ly/3c1f5x7 Graphic Credits: 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 #2022 #gardening #fertilizer #SummitResponsibleSolutions #QualityGreenSpecialists #BlackKow #gardentours #travel #Spring #May #MothersDay #Naples
Better Lawns and Gardens Hour 1 – Coming to you from Summit Responsible Solutions Studios, It's Mother's Day weekend and Teresa and Lizzie share their Mother's Day plans and memories. Callers and texters join in and tell of their first gardening memories with their Moms and grandmothers, including 100-year-old Marie in Lakeland. Teresa provides other celebratory days in May, like Cinco de Mayo with Teresa's list of popular plants from Mexico, National Wildlife Federation “Garden for Wildlife” month, World Naked Gardening Day, and National Public Gardens Week, May 6th – 15th. Nehrling Gardens in Gotha has their annual plant sale. Gardening calls and texts include when to prune a Louie Philippe rose, when to water turf – before sunrise or after sunset, and more! https://bit.ly/3c1f5x7 Graphic Credits: 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 #2022 #gardening #fertilizer #SummitResponsibleSolutions #QualityGreenSpecialists #BlackKow #gardentours #travel #Spring #May #MothersDay #Naples #CincoDeMayo #wildlife #WorldNakedGardeningDay
Better Lawns and Gardens Hour 2 – Coming to you from Summit Responsible Solutions Studios, Garden expert and host, Teresa Watkins focuses on audience's Spring gardening questions. Dirty Word of the Day is “Carnivorous.” Garden questions and texts include fertilizing St. Augustinegrass again, lemons and figs, amaryllis, keeping squirrels away from avocado trees, black bug identification, where to get an “Earth Angel” rose, declining firebush, purple plant with pink flowers identification, when is a passion fruit ripe, stubborn bird of paradise, pepper spray for mangoes, and more. https://bit.ly/3c1f5x7 Graphic Credits: 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 #2022 #gardening #fertilizer #SummitResponsibleSolutions #QualityGreenSpecialists #BlackKow #gardentours #travel #Spring #May
Better Lawns and Gardens Hour 1 – Coming to you from Summit Responsible Solutions Studios, Celebrate International Carnivorous Plant Day on May 4th! Host and garden expert, Teresa Watkins discusses her week of carnivorous synchronicities with three different occasions! Viewing the Titan of all Titanum blooms, the malodorous Amorphophallus titanium at the Rollins College Greenhouse with an invitation from Rollins College Greenhouse Manager, Alan Chryst, viewing an endemic carnivorous plant from Pungky Nanda Pratama‘s country of Sumatra. Pungky is the Environmental educator for the Sumatra Nature & Biodiversity Conservation Foundation, and finally receiving her monthly business newsletter, The Garden of Words, editor Katie Elzer-Peters describes her hike into the carnivorous world of Venus-Fly traps, endemic to NC and SC. Teresa interviews Kenny Coogan, Education Director for the International Carnivorous Plant Society in Tampa. Kenny sells carnivorous plants at Critter Companions. Follow Teresa, Kenny, Pungky, and Katie on Facebook! Gardening calls and texts include stubborn amaryllis, crape myrtles, do carnivorous plants eat love bugs, how much to water a newly-sodded lawn, and more! https://bit.ly/3c1f5x7 Graphic Credits: 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 #2022 #gardening #fertilizer #SummitResponsibleSolutions #QualityGreenSpecialists #BlackKow #gardentours #travel #Sumatra #ecosystems #carnivorous
Better Lawns and Gardens Hour 2 – Coming to you from Summit Responsible Solutions Studios, Teresa and Garden Communicator Kim Halyak discuss the Cooper Young Garden Walk, in the Cooper Young District near Memphis, TN. Garden questions and texts include green bean seedlings, Drake elms, Japanese Blueberries, Redbud, Perfecto Mundo azaleas, sago and Asian cycad scale, holes in Gerbera daisy leaves, and more. https://bit.ly/3c1f5x7 Graphic Credits: Cooper-Young Garden Walk, 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 #2022 #gardening #fertilizer #SummitResponsibleSolutions #QualityGreenSpecialists #BlackKow #gardentours #travel #Memphis #TN #CooperYoungGardenWalk
Better Lawns and Gardens Hour 1 – Coming to you from Summit Responsible Solutions Studios, Host and garden expert, Teresa Watkins has the latest information on fire ant control from @UGACAES, @UF, @UFAEC, @auburnu, @clemsonuniv, and @ncstate. Gardening calls and texts include society garlic and chives, watering new lawns, trees, apple trees, citrus greening updates, croton leaves losing their color. https://bit.ly/3c1f5x7 Graphic Credits: University of Florida, Larry Williams 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 #2022 #gardening #fertilizer #SummitResponsibleSolutions #QualityGreenSpecialists #BlackKow
Better Lawns and Gardens Hour 2 – Coming to you from Summit Responsible Solutions Studios, Teresa and her good friend and award-winning author Carol Michel discuss Easter in her Northern Indiana garden and her garden book series. Garden questions and texts include lemon tree, soil for vegetable beds, fertilizer for azaleas, crapemyrtles, lawns, and fruit trees, how to pollinate zucchini, avocado, freeze-damaged firebush,, growing amaryllis, little sprouting oak trees, and more. https://bit.ly/3c1f5x7 Graphic Credits: Carol Michel 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 #2022 #gardening #fertilizer #SummitResponsibleSolutions #QualityGreenSpecialists #BlackKow #Easter #IndyGardener #Indiana #ErmaBombeck
Better Lawns and Gardens Hour 1 – Coming to you from Summit Responsible Solutions Studios, Host and garden expert, Teresa Watkins and Sharon Fisher chat about all the things to do at the Apopka Art and Foliage Festival, April 23rd and 24th. Teresa will be at the “Ask the Plant Doctor” booth on Saturday, April 23rd. Stop by and let Teresa help you with your garden dilemma. Gardening calls and texts include plants for wet clay soils, powdery mildew on crape myrtles, will I get more mango blooms this year, bird watching, citrus, magnolia tree fertilizer, growing lilies, and more. https://bit.ly/3c1f5x7 Graphic Credits: Apopka Art and Foliage Festival 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 #2022 #gardening #fertilizer #SummitResponsibleSolutions #QualityGreenSpecialists #BlackKow #ArtintheGarden #Art #Festivals #Apopka
Better Lawns and Gardens Hour 2 – Coming to you from Summit Responsible Solutions Studios, Teresa and Lance Walheim, horticulturist and author of “Roses for Dummies,” discuss different varieties of roses, rose care, and how to use roses in the landscape. Garden questions and texts include weed landscape fabric, quick and slow-release fertilizers, flowers to add to your herb garden, how to fix plants damaged from a move, ficus problem, fire ants, fertilizing after a rain storm, papaya tree too close to house, and more. https://bit.ly/3c1f5x7 Graphic Credits: 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 #2022 #gardening #fertilizer #SummitResponsibleSolutions #QualityGreenSpecialists #BlackKow #whatLizziesaid
Better Lawns and Gardens Hour 1 – Coming to you from Summit Responsible Solutions Studios, Host and garden expert, Teresa Watkins is joined by Better Lawns and Gardens Host emeritus, Tom MacCubbin to discuss differences between palms and trees, Spring palm care, and how to spot palm tree decline. Gardening calls and texts include plants for containers, palm fertilizer, lawn care, winter-damaged plumeria, pygmy date palm tree ring, tree and plant fertilizer, flowering plants for shade, and more. https://bit.ly/3c1f5x7 Graphic Credits: 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 #2022 #gardening #fertilizer #SummitResponsibleSolutions #QualityGreenSpecialists #BlackKow #whatLizziesaid
Better Lawns and Gardens Hour 2 – Coming to you from Summit Responsible Solutions Studios, Host and garden expert, Teresa Watkins has so many garden questions that she spends the whole hour with callers and texters. Update on availability of spots on Teresa's Brandywine Garden Extravaganza Tour June 14 – 17, 2022. Garden questions and texts, can cypress knees be cut down, propagating bloodroot seeds, Plant Delights Nursery rain lilies, horrible lubber grasshoppers, identifying spiderwort, Vitex Chaste tree, cleaning your garden tools, hummingbirds have returned, Boric acid, best time to cut hibiscus tree, Blossom End rot on zucchini and squash, fertilizer, desert rose, oak tree roots, plumbago, and more. https://bit.ly/3c1f5x7 Graphic Credit: Teresa Watkins, Wikipedia, 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. Please provide first name and city. #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 #2022 #gardening #fertilizer #SummitResponsibleSolutions #QualityGreenSpecialists #BlackKow #whatLizziesaid
Better Lawns and Gardens Hour 1 – Coming to you from Summit Responsible Solutions Studios, Host and garden expert, Teresa Watkins starts the morning forecasting rainy days ahead for Florida gardeners with Lizzie Steele, producer. Dana Venrick, Quality Green Specialists nursery, and sponsor of Better Lawns and Gardens discusses Spring care for fruit trees. Gardening calls and texts include recap of Asian ambrosia beetle and crape myrtles from last week, ligustrum tree declining, cutting back hibiscus, should lawn be removed because of torpedo grass, and more. https://bit.ly/3c1f5x7 Graphic Credit: Teresa Watkins, Quality Green Specialists 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 #2022 #gardening #fertilizer #SummitResponsibleSolutions #QualityGreenSpecialists #BlackKow #whatLizziesaid
Better Lawns and Gardens Hour 1 – Coming to you from Summit Responsible Solutions Studios, Host and garden expert, Teresa Watkins starts with beautiful Florida gardening weather with Lizzie, producer. Angela Withers, President of the Nehrling Garden Society announces their popular Springtime event, Art and Stroll: Caladiums, Canvases, nnd Coffee on April 23rd. For tickets and more information, click here. Gardening calls and texts include palm fertilizer, brush killer use around oak trees, fenugreek, salad burnet, growing veggies in the shade, daylily and society garlic growing together, dollarweed, and more. https://bit.ly/3c1f5x7 Graphic Credit: Nehrling Gardens Society 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 #2022 #gardening #manure #fertilizer #SummitResponsibleSolutions #QualityGreenSpecialists #BlackKow #NehrlingGardens #Gotha #Art #Painting #Caladiums
Better Lawns and Gardens Hour 2 – Coming to you from Summit Responsible Solutions Studios, Host and garden expert, Teresa Watkins is joined by her good friend, Dr. Gary Bachman, Extension/Research Professor of Horticulture, Coastal Research and Extension Center, Mississippi State University. Host and Executive Producer of Southern Gardening videos and podcasts. Gary discusses Springtime emergence of the pest Ambrosia Beetle. Dirty Word of the Day is “en plein air”. Garden questions and texts had pineapple theme today, including National Pineapple Day is June 27th, (Thank you Lizzie), palm damage and dying, short shrift of John Denver, vegetables in the shade, orchid blooms and buds, pineapple sage blooming period, Knockout roses, magnolias, East Palatka Holly with tillandsia, Osmocote ratio, weed and feed St. Augustine lawns, and more. https://bit.ly/3c1f5x7 Photo credit: Gary Bachman Graphic: 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 #2022 #gardening #manure #fertilizer #SummitResponsibleSolutions #QualityGreenSpecialists #BlackKow #Ambrosiabeetles #pests #insects #lawns #palms #vegetables
Better Lawns and Gardens Hour 2 – Coming to you from Summit Responsible Solutions Studios, Host and garden expert, Teresa Watkins interviews Valerie Anderson, advocate for Split Oak Forest in Osceola County, on the upcoming Spring Hike through this endangered prairie and scrub preserve. Dirty Word of the Day is nectary. Garden questions and texts include grafting gardenias, perennial peanut as a ground cover, peanut mulch, ants on grapefruit, best grass seed for beach front, orchid leaf damage, and more. https://bit.ly/3c1f5x7 Graphic credit: Pat Crocker 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 #southflorida #northflorida #centralflorida #tropical #floridalife #SHE #fertilizer #turf #grass #landscaping #fruits #vegetables #Orlando #Sarasota #Miami #FortLauderdale #winter #WRLN #WiOD #WBOB #radio #podcast #UF #IFAS #NWF #wildlife #pollinators #gardens #SummitResponsibleSolutions #Lizziesaidwhat #SplitOakForest #FNPS #Floridanativeplants #natives #prairies #preservation #mitigation #development
Better Lawns and Gardens Hour 1 – Coming to you from Summit Responsible Solutions Studios, Host and garden expert, Teresa Watkins and producer Lizzie Steele warm up the morning with rainy weather, should you irrigate 2x a week, and #Caturday's St. Gertrude, the patron saint of gardeners and cats. St. Gertrude also celebrates the same holy day as St. Patrick. What to do in March in your landscape. Teresa is joined by Charlotte Ekker Wiggins,, author of "A Beekeeper's Diary, Self-Guide to Beekeeping 2nd Edition." Charlotte discusses the reasons every gardener should have a bee hive in their garden and provides a diary for beginning beekeepers. Garden questions and texts include bees, cutting back winter-damaged ornamental plants and grasses, phoenix roebellini palm care, and weather updates from Beverly in Tallahassee, and more. https://bit.ly/3c1f5x7 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 #2022 #gardening #manure #fertilizer #SummitResponsibleSolutions #QualityGreenSpecialists #BlackKow #bees #beekeeping #apiary #beekeepingclub
Better Lawns and Gardens Hour 2 – Coming to you from Summit Responsible Solutions Studios, Host and garden expert, Teresa Watkins chats with Leah Brooks, with Tower Garden on starting Spring seeds in rock wool, growing vegetables in a Tower Garden. Garden questions and texts include pruning guava trees, North Florida rain total reports, someone complaining about John Denver, woody periwinkles, pentas, and basil, fire ants, codling moths, cutting back liriope, and more. https://bit.ly/3c1f5x7 Graphic credit: Creative Commons, 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 #southflorida #northflorida #centralflorida #tropical #floridalife #SHE #fertilizer #turf #grass #landscaping #fruits #vegetables #Orlando #Sarasota #Miami #FortLauderdale #winter #WRLN #WiOD #WBOB #radio #podcast #UF #IFAS #NWF #wildlife #pollinators #gardens #SummitResponsibleSolutions #Lizziesaidwhat #rain #seedstarting #TowerGarden
Better Lawns and Gardens Hour 1 – Coming to you from Summit Responsible Solutions Studios, Host and garden expert, Teresa Watkins asks Tom Maccubbin for a good substitution for granule fertilizer and discusses how to understand a soil analysis report. Lizzie encourages Shumar to ask his garden question. Garden questions and texts include recommendations for a reliable plant id app, do plants need covered this weekend, why isn't Shumar's lychee tree growing, is leaving oak leaves on turf okay, how much to water new turf, how to collect soil for a soil test, and more. https://bit.ly/3c1f5x7 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. 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 #2022 #gardening #manure #fertilizer #SummitResponsibleSolutions #QualityGreenSpecialists #BlackKow
Better Lawns and Gardens Hour 2 – Coming to you from Summit Responsible Solutions Studios, Host and garden expert, Teresa Watkins interviews Mary Phillips, Head of Garden for Wildlife, on the gardening campaign “Plant with a Purpose!” Garden questions and texts include using cat fur, coffee grounds, and teabags in compost, transplanting a 5' tall pittosporum, Tabebuia that never flowers, topping oleanders, fertilizing shrubs, National Wildlife Federation certification, and more. https://bit.ly/3c1f5x7 Teresa's newest garden acquisition: Sunflower bird bath https://bit.ly/3IOS3YF Graphic credit: Garden with Wildlife, National Wildlife Federation 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 #southflorida #northflorida #centralflorida #tropical #floridalife #SHE #fertilizer #turf #grass #landscaping #fruits #vegetables #Orlando #Sarasota #Miami #FortLauderdale #winter #WRLN #WiOD #WBOB #radio #podcast #UF #IFAS #NWF #wildlife #pollinators #gardens #SummitResponsibleSolutions
Better Lawns and Gardens Hour 1 – Coming to you from Summit Responsible Solutions Studios, Host and garden expert, Teresa Watkins is joined by show sponsor, Dana Venrick, Quality Green Specialists Nursery in Deland to showcase the popular Florida Wildflower and Garden Festival. Speakers include Teresa presents “Success with Wildflowers – Grow, Mow, and Bloom” and Tom MacCubbin will be speaking on “Garden Do's and Don'ts.” Garden questions and texts include where to buy African violets, soil for growing vegetables in containers, cutting back philodendron selloums with winter damage, cutting back crapemyrtles and Copperbushes, do you need to add amendments to new potting soil, composting, using pepper seed to keep squirrels out of bird feeders, and more. https://bit.ly/3c1f5x7 Graphic credit: MainstreetDeland.org 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. 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 #2022 #gardening #SummitResponsibleSolutions #QualityGreenSpecialists #wildflowers #Festival #Deland
Better Lawns and Gardens Hour 2 – Coming to you from Summit Responsible Solutions Studios, Host and garden expert, Teresa Watkins is joined by two gardening experts, Sally Cunningham, author of “Buffalo Style Gardens” to discuss Teresa's Brandywine Garden Extravaganza Tour, and Lance Walheim, author of the “Citrus” and “Growing Roses for Dummies” series. Garden questions and texts include cutting back hibiscus, is winter over?, freeze-damaged Hawaiian Ti and Siberian iris, Honeybell citrus tree bark falling off, crapemyrtle moss, milkweed aphids local source for 'Rhythym and Blues' Salvia, and more. https://bit.ly/3c1f5x7 Graphic credit: Teresa Watkins Must have on your garden bookshelf! Buffalo Style Gardens and Citrus. 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 #southflorida #northflorida #centralflorida #tropical #floridalife #SHE #fertilizer #turf #grass #landscaping #fruits #vegetables #Orlando #Sarasota #Miami #FortLauderdale #winter #WRLN #WiOD #WBOB #radio #podcast #UF #IFAS #GardenWalkBuffalo #citrus #winter #SummitResponsibleSolutions
Better Lawns and Gardens Hour 1 – Coming to you from Summit Responsible Solutions Studios, Host and garden expert, Teresa Watkins discusses how growing and propagating African violets with Glenna Hancock, daughter of Walter “Buster” Hancock of the historic five-generation agricultural Hancock citrus groves. Glenna tells the simple method of propagating African violets. Garden questions and texts covered asking where to buy African violets, soil for growing vegetables in containers, cutting back hibiscus, using oak leaves for compost, identifying a shrub at Sea World, what is the best soil test kit, and more. https://bit.ly/3c1f5x7 Graphic credit: Teresa Watkins Must have on your garden bookshelf! Buffalo Style Gardens and Citrus. 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 #southflorida #northflorida #centralflorida #tropical #floridalife #SHE #fertilizer #turf #grass #landscaping #fruits #vegetables #Orlando #Sarasota #Miami #FortLauderdale #winter #WRLN #WiOD #WBOB #radio #podcast #UF #IFAS #GardenWalkBuffalo #citrus #winter #SummitResponsibleSolutions
Better Lawns and Gardens Hour 2 – Coming to you from Summit Responsible Solutions Studios, Host and garden expert, Teresa Watkins discusses Southern Gardening in Florida and Mississippi Zones 8, 9, 10, 11. Dr. Gary Bachman, author of "Southern Gardening - All Year Round" in the house! Teresa gave a Florida memento to Gary, Lizzie, and Melissa, a rare Philodendron "Birkin" plant., which is so beautifully green, cream, yellow, and red striped, that it's was named after the ultimate and expensive BIrkin bags. Garden questions and texts include when to lay St. Augustinegrass sod, "Little John" Bottlebrush shrubs, mulching, best varieties for tomato containers, daylilies, and more. https://bit.ly/3c1f5x7 Graphic credit: Teresa Watkins Philodendron "Birkin" by Costa Farms. Get your copy of Southern Gardening - All Year Round 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 #southflorida #northflorida #centralflorida #tropical #floridalife #SHE #fertilizer #turf #grass #landscaping #fruits #vegetables #Orlando #Sarasota #Miami #FortLauderdale #winter #WRLN #WiOD #radio #podcast #UF #IFAS #Extension #MSU #Mississippi #SouthernGardening #SummitResponsibleSolutions
Better Lawns and Gardens Hour 1 – Coming to you from Summit Responsible Solutions Studios, Host and garden expert, Teresa Watkins is excited to have Dr. Gary Bachman, author of "Southern Gardening - All Year Round" in the house! Celebrating Black History Month, we interviewed Rae Chesny on her book, "Dear Zora" about local author and icon, Zora Neale Hurston. Garden questions and texts covered fertilizing pineapples, Sunshine ligustrums, viable vegetable seeds, are bottlebrush weepy or happy, garden gremlins, plumeria after a freeze, how to get rid of mushrooms, and more. https://bit.ly/3c1f5x7 Graphic credit: Teresa Watkins Get your copy of Dear Zora! Get your copy of Southern Gardening - All Year Round 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 #southflorida #northflorida #centralflorida #tropical #floridalife #SHE #fertilizer #turf #grass #landscaping #fruits #vegetables #Orlando #Sarasota #Miami #FortLauderdale #winter #WRLN #WiOD #radio #podcast #UF #IFAS #ZoraNealeHurston #SouthernGardening #SummitResponsibleSolutions
Better Lawns and Gardens Hour 2 – Valentine's Day weekend with Randy Schultz, editor of HomeGardenandHomestead, the best garden website in the Plant Kingdom. Teresa provides more Valentine's Day trivia which has Lizzie gagging. Randy announces the National Garden Bureau's 2022 Green Thumb Award winners. Garden questions and texts include: yellowing gardenias, variegated hibiscus reverting, herbs getting woody, dogs eating kumquats, freeze-damaged trees and parrot flowers, and more. https://bit.ly/3c1f5x7 Graphic credits: 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 #2022 #winter #freeze #greenthumb #awards #NGB #gardening #SummitResponsibleSolutions