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FOREGROUNDING PLANTS: THE ARNOLD ARBORETUM CELEBRATES 150
In one of our more flamboyant arboreal seasons of the year—when our charismatic woody megaflora of the Northern Hemisphere—the trees—are...
Nov 10, 2022


THE EVOLVING PUBLIC GARDEN: THREE MEMBERS OF THE HORT TEAM @ FILOLI HISTORIC HOUSE & GARDEN
Settling into November now, this week on Cultivating Place we’re conversation with three members of the horticultural team at Filoli, a...
Nov 3, 2022


GARDENING WITH AMERICAN ROOTS, NICK & ALLISON MCCULLOUGH
This week on Cultivating Place, we continue with a fall/winter planning and planting this time with a focus on design, in conversation...
Oct 20, 2022


RAISE 'EM RIGHT: PLANT & HUMAN COMMUNITY AT BARTON SPRINGS NURSERY AUSTIN, TX
Photos courtesy of Barton Springs Nursery, all rights reserved - see full gallery at bottom of post. If you ask me, the independent...
Sep 8, 2022


DIGGING DEEP & GARDEN SPARKS, with AUSTIN, TX GARDENER, PAM PENICK
All photos courtesy of Pam Penick, all rights reserved - see full gallery at bottom of post. Pam Penick is the gardener/writer behind the...
Sep 1, 2022


BEST OF: ADVENTUROUS DESIGN & CIVILIZATION BUILDING, DAVID GODSHALL, TERREMOTO LA
The Dog Days of Summer call for a reprisal - please enjoy this week's revisit of our conversation with David Godshall! David Godshall is...
Aug 4, 2022


THEODORA PARK: CHARLESTON, SC with DAVID RAWLE (BEST OF)
This week, CP has a double-header of sorts (being baseball season you know), with some of our on-air stations in pledge drive. For these,...
May 5, 2022


WINTER GARDENS, WITH PHOTOGRAPHER ANDREW MONTGOMERY
Andrew Montgomery is a British-based garden photographer. His new book, Winter Gardens, celebrates the very specific beauty of the winter...
Feb 24, 2022


SEEDS FOR THE CALIFORNIA LANDSCAPE, LARNER SEEDS, JUDITH LARNER LOWRY
Judith Larner Lowry is the plantswoman behind Larner Seeds – Seeds for the California Landscape – Restoring California One Garden At A...
Jan 27, 2022


THE WILD SEED PROJECT, HEATHER MCCARGO
Fall and early winter are the perfect time in much of the Northern Hemisphere to plant bulbs, woody shrubs and trees, herbaceous...
Nov 11, 2021


HIGH STYLE, DRY GARDENS, with DESIGNER DANIEL NOLAN
As we near the close of a dry, dry season in the generally dry climates of much of the US West, this week Cultivating Place has the first...
Sep 30, 2021


LAWNS INTO MEADOWS, REGENERATIVE LANDSCAPES with OWEN WORMSER
At a time when our gardens large or small often feel more important than ever, I think our focus on exactly what our gardens contain and...
Aug 19, 2021


THE ORDER OF ENERGY, THE URBAN FOOD FOREST OF MATTHEW TRUMM,
Many gardeners will remember with delight reading Gaia’s Garden by author and activist Toby Hemenway, originally published in 2001. Toby...
Aug 12, 2021


ON REFUGIA: GROWING CONNECTION
Just outside of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania a team of plant folks known as Refugia is growing connection among places and people from...
May 27, 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


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


SEASONAL & ELEMENTAL: CALLING ALL TOMATOMANIACS
It's Spring in the northern hemisphere (even snow is still making visitations to parts of the North American as I speak to you) and...
Apr 22, 2021


TALKING 'BOUT A REVOLUTION: FOODSCAPE REVOLUTION with BRIE ARTHUR - BEST OF
Just in time for spring and that itch we gardeners - new and long time - have to get the summer vegetables into the ground, Cultivating...
Apr 2, 2021


THE PERFECT EARTH PROJECT & 2/3rds 4 THE BIRDS, with LANDSCAPE DESIGNER EDWINA VON GAL
Here we are – mid-way into Women’s History Month & one year after the publication of The Earth in Her Hands. In honor of these two...
Mar 18, 2021


GARDENER GROWING: UPROOTED, WITH PAGE DICKEY
Page Dickey is a gardener, garden designer, author and editor of many notable garden books, and the co-founder of the Garden...
Feb 25, 2021
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