Engaging and dynamic Garden programs
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Available Topics
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Bro-Mance: Companion Plants and Containers for Bromeliads - Statewide
What works well with bromeliads in the landscape or in your favorite container? Teresa explains site assessment, plant combinations, and design techniques for displaying bromeliads. 1 hour.
Designing Your Dream Landscape
From your first wish for a beautiful garden to designing the perfect Florida landscape, Teresa takes you through all the design aspects, site conditions, and horticultural details, to think about to create your own dream landscape. Sharing her own professional landscape design experience, Teresa will provide insight and common sense to every phase of landscape design for Florida’s weather, low maintenance, and environmentally-friendly practices.
Gardening Up in The Air - Growing Bromeliads - Statewide
Teresa goes above and beyond the garden bed to inspire gardeners to design with bromeliads indoors and in unusual ways in the landscape. She showcases unique placement and locations to plant bromeliads with her own photographs and global botanical displays. Interesting for beginning and experienced gardeners. 1 hour.
Try to Contain Yourself: Container Gardening the Easy Way - State or National
Landscape designer and horticulturist Teresa Watkins showcases the many ways you can use your imagination to select, plant, and take care of creative, elegant, or whimsical pottery and containers with sustainable plant combinations for year-round, seasonal color, and chic style. 1 hour.
Gardens To Flutter By: Butterfly Gardening – State and National
How to attract butterflies and pollinators to your backyard. Teresa provides success tips for pollinator gardens. 1 hour.
Such Luscious Succulents – State and National
Growing Succulents indoors and outside. Teresa emphasizes landscape design tips and maintenance practices for using succulents in your yard and in containers. 1 hour.
Get Out Of Here – You’re Bugging Me! – State and National
Gardening in Florida doesn’t mean that you need to worry about pests. Teresa talks about insects in the landscape, the good ones and the bad ones. 1 hour.
Gardening with Your Soul – State and National
Landscape designer and horticulturist, Teresa presents various gardening themes based on personal interests and hobbies to create a beautiful landscape in your backyard. 1 hour.
Finding Your Garden Roots
Explore the United States’ earliest gardening roots and how it helped win the Revolutionary War. Teresa also discusses her own surprise family tree and ancestors. 1 hour.
Polly Hill, America’s First Woman Arborist - National
The life of Polly Hill and the Arboretum she created. A two-hour program that includes a video of Polly Hill, her philosophy in growing trees, and photographs of the Polly Hill Arboretum. Can be open to the public as a fundraiser. 2 hours.
Growing Herbs ‘Great-fully’ – State and National
Thanksgiving-themed talk on growing herbs in Florida for Autumn. 1 hour.
Welcome to Your Florida Landscape – State
Introduction for new Florida residents and new gardeners on best management practices for maintaining a successful landscape, including turf. 1 hour.
Yes, Virginia, Florida does have a Winter! - State
How to design and maintain a landscape that protects your Florida landscape in the wintertime. 1 hour. Can be in taught in conjunction with “How to Care for Your Holiday Plants.”
How to Care for Your Holiday Plants - State
Make your New Year’s resolution to keep your holiday plants thriving. Teresa teaches about the various flowers and shrubs sold during the holidays for inside and outside use. Great in conjunction with “Yes, Virginia, Florida does have a Winter!” 30 mins.
Landscaping with Edibles - State and National
Landscaping designer, Teresa Watkins, brings harvesting home with her delicious landscape design tips and important garden advice. Teresa discusses her favorite edibles to use in the landscape. She provides inspiration with beautiful photographs of gardens of eatin’. 1 hour.
Design Your Garden for The Environment – State and National
Gardening expert, Teresa teaches how to assess your site, select the right plants, and create a landscape that protects Florida’s resources and is beneficial for wildlife. 1 hour.
Development of Landscape Design - State and National
The early history of landscape design. Teresa showcases the development of landscape styles, from 6000 BC through World War II. 1 hour.
Inviting the Birds and the Bees – State and National
Teresa Watkins, horticulturist and landscape designer, teaches how to design, maintain, and have a landscape that attracts and is beneficial for pollinators and wildlife. 1 hour.
Gardening Around the World In Your Backyard – State and National
Teresa Watkins loves designing themed landscapes. Teresa showcases different ways to find global, cultural, and memorable travel to accentuate and bring transport your garden to another world. 1 hour.
Finding Your Garden Muse - State and National
Horticulturist and landscape designer, Teresa Watkins explains the process of finding your garden muse to designing your garden inspirations into landscape realities. 1 hour.
Trash to Panache – State and National
Landscape designer, Teresa Watkins, digs deep to provide inspiration to see landscape uses transform everyday items often thrown away into a garden treasure. 1 hour.
