The dynamic wife-and-husband team of Teresa Watkins and Tony DeSormier own Art In Bloom Garden Tours, LLC.
Teresa, garden author, landscape designer, horticulturist, and radio personality on Better Lawns and Gardens. Her landscape company, Sustainable Horticultural Environments, designs unique, beautiful, and award-winning sustainable landscapes and has won the Best of Houzz Service award nine years in a row. Over the last 25 years, more than 40,000 green industry associates, Master Gardeners, Master Naturalists, and homeowners have attended Teresa’s landscaping talks and programs. Her educational programs range from the ABCs of environmental conservation to theme-designs of fairy gardens and xeriscaping.
A member of Garden Communicators International and a 25-year garden radio show veteran of her award-winning garden show, In Your Backyard, Teresa hosts Better Lawns and Gardens, Florida ́s most popular syndicated garden radio show on WFLA-Orlando, iHeart, iTunes, and on podcast. Teresa has authored numerous articles on gardening as well as three volumes of the ongoing series A Gardener’s Compendium, collections of gardening quotes and anecdotes replete with thoroughly researched sources and contexts. Teresa enjoys traveling and leading gardening tours, checking off national and world gardens on her ‘bucket’ (pronounced ‘bouquet’) list.
Tony has a Master’s of Liberal Studies degree from Rollins College of Winter Park, Florida. For the last 20 years, he has taught humanities classes for Valencia and Seminole State colleges. A writer by trade and a storyteller by avocation, Tony adds to Teresa’s considerable gardening expertise with contributions of historical and culture contexts. Along with working with Teresa to convert their bungalow property into a collection of unique gardens, Tony is an avid cross stitcher.
Together, Teresa and Tony plan to build on the well-deserved admired reputation of Art In Bloom Garden Tours by continuing the established schedule of trips and adding new destinations.
