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GROWING GENTLY & THE HEALING POWER OF FLOWERS w/ HONEYSUCKLE & HILDA's CLAIRE BOWEN
Claire Bowen is the woman behind Honeysuckle & Hilda: a florist who likes to write and her two little dogs. Based in Oxfordshire, in a...
Jun 10, 2021
FEARLESS GARDENING, with LOREE BOHL
Loree Bohl is the Portland Oregon-based founder and visionary gardener behind the well-known and well-loved Danger Garden Blog. In true...
May 22, 2021
BEING RADICLE, with SANTA FE-BASED LANDSCAPE ARCHITECT CHRISTIE GREEN,
Christie Green is the founder and principal of Radicle, a landscape architecture firm based in Santa Fe, NM. Radicle – spelled like the...
May 13, 2021
GARDENS WITH SOUL: UNDER WESTERN SKIES, with CAITLIN ATKINSON
CAITLIN ATKINSON is a photographer of places, spaces, and all things botanical. A child-hood spent in the Sierra Nevada foothills among...
May 6, 2021
MAKING A LIFE, BY HAND, with MELANIE FALICK, BEST OF
Hey – Ok I had to jump in this week to say this: HAPPY BIRTHDAY to CULITVATING PLACE – we are 5 years old this month. With more than 300...
Feb 5, 2021
A HANDFUL OF FORTITUDE & GRATITUDE, TERESA SABANKAYA
In a year in which gardeners and other humans alike are having to meet and process and pivot around and over and beyond a wide variety of...
Dec 3, 2020
SEED SEASON- HOPE SPRINGS ETERNAL: REVISITING CLARE FOSTER & GROWING FLOWERS FROM SEED
In this last week of October 2020, as a nod to faith and a vote for the future growing seasons, Cultivating Place kicks off a multipart...
Oct 29, 2020
VIRIDITAS & ATTACHMENT GARDENING with SUE STUART-SMITH
When it comes to creativity – mother nature and the human brain are both pretty good. For Psychiatrist and Psychotherapist Sue Stuart...
Oct 15, 2020
ON CREATIVITY: LIFE IN THE STUDIO (& GARDEN) with FRANCES PALMER
This week we kick off October with a dive into creativity – the way gardeners harness it, riff off it, and share its results forward with...
Oct 1, 2020
THE LIFELONG GARDENER, TONI GATTONE
Toni Gattone is a business woman, a master gardener, and a lifelong gardener of Italian descent. After struggling herself with a bad...
Aug 20, 2020
BOTANY, GEOGRAPHY, HISTORY & POWER: AT THE HEART OF THE GARDEN, JAMAICA KINCAID
"YEASTY" - that's how Jamaica Kincaid describes our current moment in time. She and I spoke via remote audio video connection on June...
Jul 2, 2020
STRUCTURES OF CARE, with POET GARDENER ROSS GAY (BEST OF)
"It’s sort of beautiful – Lucky – It feels like a lucky orientation to be constantly thinking: 'Oh what’s happening out there, what’s...
Jun 4, 2020
THE KITCHEN GARDEN REVIVAL, with NICOLE JOHNSEY BURKE OF GARDENARY
Rarely in most of our lifetimes has there been such an obviously perfect time to garden – for food, for fresh air, for mental clearing,...
Apr 9, 2020
THERAPEUTIC LANDSCAPES NETWORK, DR. NAOMI SACHS Healing Gardens Series #2
In our second episode in a series around the healing power of plants and gardens in our world, we get an overview of the professional...
Feb 6, 2020
EMILY DICKINSON'S GARDENING LIFE, with AUTHOR MARTA MCDOWELL
Emily Dickinson was a gardener. She was also an iconic poet, and this week we enjoy a conversation with Marta McDowell to hear more about...
Jan 16, 2020
(GARDEN) NEWS FROM THE CAPITAL: WASHINGTON GARDENER MAGAZINE, with KATHY JENTZ
A lot of news comes out of Washington DC at most times, and this year looks to offer even more. But we’re visiting the MidAtlantic belt...
Jan 9, 2020
ON FLOWERS with AMY MERRICK
In a few short days the Northern Hemisphere will celebrate the Winter Solstice, that moment in the planetary position when the North Pole...
Dec 19, 2019
THE SCENTUAL GARDEN, KEN DRUSE
Scentual - hmmm. A good and evocative word, right? Today we are talking all things fragrant plants and flowers with plantsman Ken Druse...
Dec 12, 2019
MASTERING THE ART OF BEING A PLANTSMAN, MATT MATTUS
Matt Mattus is a well known horticulturist, plantsman gardener and author. His Growing with Plants Blog and hist first book Mastering the...
Oct 31, 2019
A NATURAL HISTORY OF LOVE & LOSS - LATE MIGRATIONS with MARGARET RENKL
"Loss is the shadow side of love, and grief is its own twin" – so writes Margaret Renkl in her human and moving memoir of place, plants,...
Sep 26, 2019
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