Did you know that grasslands account for between 20 and 40 percent of the world's land area? Generally open, fairly flat, and accessible...

We opened up 2023 here on Cultivating Place focusing on biodiversity, and we close the year similarly, with diverse plant...

Collin Pine is an avid gardener, as well as an educator and writer. His first book is a work of garden-based children’s literature, The...

Jac Semmler is a plant practitioner, a multi-disciplinary, creative, high skilled horticulturist, and the human behind an epic new book...

In our world at this time, I give thanks for the leadership voices that ground us in innovative ways of thinking and seeing our own power...

As we turn the calendar to November, and the season to decidedly late fall and wintery in many places across the US, we look toward our...

This week we continue our artistic autumnal theme in conversation with Nina Veteto a plantswoman, conservationist, artist, and expert...

This week on Cultivating Place we return to the artistry and also the activism of our plant loving and garden growing lives in...

This week we enjoy a conversation with a gardener and garden guru well known and loved: Joe Lamp’l of the famed and award-winning Growing...

Can you believe it is already back to school season? This week we look to what back to school means for our lifelong learning and plants....

Sam Hoadley is the Manager of Horticultural Research at the Mt. Cuba Center in Delaware, a remarkable botanic garden and conservation...

Erin Presley is the herb, woodland, and pond garden horticulturist at Olbrich Botanical Gardens, a 16-acre, free, public garden founded...

The garden in summer is at its fullest sensory delight and overwhelm – the peak of sunlight, growing hours, heat, and growth, ripening...

National Pollinator Week is an annual celebration since 2010 in support of pollinator health that was initiated and is managed by...

No matter what you might call it – Rewilding, Wildscaping, Backyard Habitats, Acts of Restorative Kindness, Native plant habitat...

Welcome June! This week, the third and final-for-now conversation in our series on the state of seed for native ecosystem restoration...

Pat Reynolds is a restoration ecologist with more than 30 years of professional experience in the design, implementation and monitoring...

As I write in my upcoming book, What We Sow, on the Personal, Ecological, and Cultural Significance of Seeds – seeds are to the plant...

Camille Dungy is perhaps best known for her remarkable and award winning often environmentally focused poetry and editing of collections...

It is now Mid-April and this week we are celebrating both California Native Plant Week AND the week of Earth Day. Wildflowers are...