Get Out of Here, You're Bugging Me
In the summer, our thoughts turn to flowers, green grass, and the joy of being outdoors. It seems that all of Mother Nature thinks that way, too!
Gardening With Soul: Build a Community of Love
Community gardens reflect love and concern and can serve a variety of functions. Cooperative gardens can provide food resources for charities and urban dwellers a chance to farm. Community gardens can educate elementary and high school students that ‘vegetables do not come from plastic bags’ in the freezer section of grocery stores.
Declare Your Independence From Yard Work
With the summer holiday season in full swing, comes a time for parties, get-togethers with friends and family, picnics and barbecues...
Plant Posture
Taking family photographs - you always want them to look just right, everyone in the right place, looking forward and smiling, picture perfect... Do you do this in your garden? Do you stand back and see if each plant or flower is straight and looking forward?
Plant Me! I'm Irish!
Each year on March 17th around the world, everyone wants to be Irish...
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Teresa Watkins, with the University of Florida’s Florida Yards & Neighborhoods, is recognized as a leader on "environmentally-friendly" landscapes. Watkins teaches educational and motivating workshops to Central Florida homeowners on creating and maintaining "Florida-friendly" yards that are attractive and almost carefree with "earth-smart" practices.
Her professional background ranges from working with private clients, private nurseries, commercial retail garden centers, and homeowner associations, as well as assisting county utilities and municipalities with their water conservation and non-source water pollution education for homeowners. A certified Master Gardener, certified Master Naturalist instructor, landscape consultant and contributing editor for several publications, Teresa provides down to earth cited Teresa’s articles and philosophy of "ecologically-aware" gardening.
An award-winning radio and TV host, Teresa Watkins designed the landscaping of the "first energy and environmentally efficient" DREAM home in the state of Florida to be certified as a "green home" by the Florida Build Green Coalition and Florida Solar Energy Center. Currently she hosts a weekly call-in radio show; "In My Backyard" on WLBE 790 AM Tuesdays at 11am, featuring environmental issues and landscaping advice for Central Florida and co-hosts “Gardener’s Hotline”, a PBS regional gardening show on WCEU Channel 15, Daytona Beach.
When not putting her hands in someone else’s backyard, you can find Teresa digging in her own garden, looking for slugs and lubber grasshoppers -- creatures, that she adamantly swears do not have souls -- aided in that effort by Sheila, her loyal Scottish terrier and legendary lubber grasshopper killer.
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