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THE CURIOSITY DRIVEN GROWING LIFE OF AUSTRALIA'S MICHAEL MCCOY
Many things motivate and drive us in our love of gardening, plants, and nature. Australia’s Michael McCoy, also known as The Gardenist ,...
Feb 13
THE POWER OF PUBLIC GREEN SPACES: NY'S ELIZABETH STREET GARDEN, with JOSEPH REIVER
The Elizabeth Street Garden in New York City’s Little Italy and SoHo neighborhoods is a one-acre public garden founded in 1991 by Allan...
Feb 6
GOT TOPIARY? A CONVERSATION WITH PLANTSMAN/ARTIST MIKE GIBSON
This week, guest-host Abra Lee is in conversation with legendary topiary artist and star of the HGTV hit show Clipped , Mike ‘Gibby-Siz’...
Jan 23
RESOLUTION SUPPORT: THE 5-MINUTE GARDENER with NICOLE BURKE, GARDENER
Maybe your New Year’s resolution was to take up gardening or to garden more, or in a new way? Well, this week is all about gardening even...
Jan 9
THE KING OF CAMELLIAS, SIDNEY FRAZIER OF MIDDLETON PLACE, CHARLESTON, SC
This week, CP Guest Host Abra Lee celebrates the season in conversation with the King of Camellias, Sidney Frazier . Sidney is based out...
Dec 19, 2024
LONGWOOD REIMAGINED, with CEO AND PUBLIC GARDEN LEADER, PAUL REDMAN
This week, when many in the US have time off with family and friends, we note our gratitude for our many teachers: the plants and the...
Nov 28, 2024
EXPLORING THE FRONTIERS OF GARDEN DESIGN with THE NEW PERENNIALIST, TONY SPENCER OF ONTARIO, CANADA
In our ongoing exploration of who gardeners are, where gardeners are, and all that they are growing in this world, this week in...
Nov 14, 2024
KISS MY ASTER's ASTER GARDENS, with AMANDA THOMSEN
This week we’re joined by Amanda Thomsen, owner of Aster Gardens , a bespoke, sensory, and haunted plant shop in the small, Midwestern...
Oct 3, 2024
GARDENS IN SPACES OF INCARCERATION, with CULTURAL GEOGRAPHER DR. ELIZABETH LARA
This week, in honor of Labor Day just passed, we venture into the world of garden preservation and history through the lens of spaces of...
Sep 5, 2024
BACK TO SCHOOL - WITH PLANTS: SEAN DOHERTY, VP OF EDUCATION, MISSOURI BOTANICAL GARDEN
(IMAGES: top MOBOT Orangery.JJEWELL; MOBOT in spring with sculpture.JJEWELL; Sean, Daria McKelvey, Supervisor - Home Gardening...
Aug 15, 2024
NATIONAL POLLINATOR WEEK with THE POLLINATOR POSSE, TORA ROCHA
It’s full summer, for us and for the fauna of the Northern Hemisphere. That means many of our most charismatic, sun-loving pollinators...
Jun 27, 2024
IN HONOR OF JUNETEENTH: THE ANNE SPENCER HOUSE & GARDEN MUSEUM, with SHAUN SPENCER-HESTER
In honor of Juneteenth celebrations coming up, we check in on the Anne Spencer House & Garden in Lynchburg, VA. The home and garden of...
Jun 13, 2024
A GARDEN'S PURPOSE, with ECOLOGICAL DESIGNER FELIX DE ROSEN
Cultivating our places with attention, intention, thought, and care is certainly an ethos I hold dear and advocate for with some measure...
Jun 6, 2024
REWARDING GREAT DESIGN: DESIGN FUTURIST AWARDS, with SARAH BECK, PACIFIC HORTICULTURE
With the Chelsea Flower Show in the UK just completed, the gardening world as a whole has the concept of Garden Design awards and...
May 30, 2024
MILKWOOD PERMACULTURE - HABITS FOR HOPE IN A CHANGING WORLD, with KIRSTEN BRADLEY
ALL PHOTOS courtesy of Milkwood, all rights reserved. This week on Cultivating Place we’re in conversation with Kirsten Bradley,...
May 24, 2024
A YEAR FULL OF FLOWERS (IN POTS!) with UK'S SARAH RAVEN
ALL PHOTOS by Jonathan Buckley, all rights reserved. "Pots in the garden are like bubble in a glass of champagne." -Sarah Raven Sarah...
May 2, 2024
WOMEN'S HISTORY MONTH FINALE: GARDEN WONDERLAND, WITH LESLIE BENNETT
To round out Women’s History Month in style, this week we are back in conversation with Leslie Bennett, Oakland, CA based landscape...
Mar 28, 2024
SPRING EQUINOX SPECIAL: OWEN WORMSER OF ABOUND DESIGN & "LAWNS INTO MEADOWS"
The Great Unlawning of America has been underway for some time now. As we have just crossed the threshold of the spring equinox earlier...
Mar 21, 2024
THE ART OF GARDENS + SCULPTURE: MEIJER GARDENS & SCULPTURE PARK STEVE LAWARRE, GRAND RAPIDS, MI
The combining of sculpture and gardens dates back centuries if not millennia, and there are few public gardens I know of that do not...
Mar 14, 2024
WOMEN'S HISTORY MONTH: THE QUEEN OF HERBS, JEKKA MCVICAR
Happy Women’s History Month! To kick Women’s History Month off on Cultivating Place, this week we visit with the woman known as the Queen...
Mar 7, 2024
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