About Art in Bloom Garden Tours

The energetic team of Teresa Watkins and Tony DeSormier owns Art in Bloom Garden Tours.

Teresa is a garden author, landscape designer, horticulturist, and radio personality. Watkins also owns Sustainable Horticultural Environments (SHE), where she designs unique, beautiful, and award-winning sustainable landscapes. SHE received the Best of Houzz Service award for 9 consecutive years. Over the past 25 years, more than 40,000 green industry professionals, Master Gardeners, Master Naturalists, and homeowners have attended Teresa’s landscaping talks and programs. Her educational offerings range from the basics of environmental conservation to themed designs like fairy gardens and xeriscaping.

A member of Garden Communicators International and a 25-year veteran of her award-winning garden radio show, In Your Backyard, Teresa now hosts Better Lawns and Gardens, Florida’s most popular syndicated garden radio program on WFLA-Orlando, iHeart, iTunes, and anywhere you get podcasts. Teresa has written numerous articles on gardening and authored three volumes of the ongoing series A Gardener’s Compendium, which features collections of gardening quotes and anecdotes with well-researched sources and contexts. She enjoys traveling and leading gardening tours, checking off national and world gardens on her ‘bucket’ (pronounced ‘bouquet’) list.

Tony holds a Master’s Degree in Liberal Studies from Rollins College in Winter Park, Florida. Over the past 20 years, he has taught humanities courses at Valencia and Seminole State colleges. A writer by profession and a storyteller by hobby, Tony complements Teresa’s extensive gardening knowledge with insights into historical and cultural topics. Alongside working with Teresa to transform their bungalow property into a diverse collection of gardens, Tony is also an enthusiastic cross-stitcher.

Together, Teresa and Tony aim to enhance the reputation of Art in Bloom Garden Tours by sticking to the existing trip schedule while adding new destinations.