Teresa's Top Five Plants: Chelsea Flower Show Zone Envy. What to grow & can you use crabgrass pre- emergence?

Tom MacCubbing chats with Bob Hotaling University of Florida Master Gardener, Excellent gardener and good friend about getting seeds to germinate. The Dirty Word of the Day – Nematode. Tom answers your questions on boxwoods seem to do poorly in Central Florida what other alternative plants to use, pineapple guava problems, Italian Cyprus & how the best tomatoes have come out of my compost.

Tom MacCubbin fills in for Teresa & talks about how he's vegetable garden is going. He answers Listeners questions about; plants wilting after planting, planting a banana tree in a 3 ft deep pot & foxtail palm planted too close to the house. Find out Tom's Top Five Foliage plants for the Landscape.

Dirty Word of the Day is Kalanchoe. Teresa answers your questions about copper plant, pruning small young crepe myrtles, a traveling palm & hibiscus tree has aphids.

Teresa's Top Five Perfumes with a floral smell. Dana Venrick from Quality Green Specialist educates us on the different varieties of Loquat trees. Teresa answers your questions about growing an arbequina olive tree, how to know if you have webworms & what to plant.

Difference between fungal & bacterial diseases. The importance of cleaning & sterilizing your gardening tools in-between uses. What to do to help prevent it. Teresa's favorite roses to plant. Get your answers to your questions about growing grapes, can Coral Trees grow here, nematode problems, what does 14.14.14 on fertilizers means & Hollywood Hibiscus.

It's National Naked Gardening Day. (1st Saturday of May) Teresa Top Five Mothers Day Plants to buy. Heat tolerate vegetables to plant this month.

Teresa Watkins' Dirty Word of the Day, Asclepias. Our sponsor, Heather from Summer Responsible Solutions, explains their product "Deer Ban Deer Repellent" and how it works. Teresa answers your questions about blackberry primocanes, money trees, pruning a desert roses, Citrablue grass and Dichondra spreading in St Augustine grass.

Teresa Watkin's gives you her Top Five Easter Colored plants. Dana Venrick updates us on what to do with our fruit trees during this drought. General Federation of Women's Club's Dena Morrow chats about the Apopka Art and Foliage Festival. Wait on fertilizing you lawn. Why?