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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...


Jan 23
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’...


Dec 19, 2024
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 5, 2024
THE GARDEN OF WORDS, with KATIE ELZER-PETERS
This week guest host Ben Futa is joined by Katie Elzer-Peters, owner and founder of The Garden of Words , a digital marketing agency for...


Nov 28, 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...


Sep 26, 2024
THE FIELD GUIDES AMONG US, DR. ALAN WEAKLEY, DIRECTOR, UNC CHAPEL HILL HERBARIUM
Dr. Alan Weakley is a career-long botanist and conservation biologist firmly rooted in the southeast region of the U.S. For a little...


Aug 15, 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 8, 2024
SHROUDED IN LIGHT, WHAT OUR NATIVE SHRUBLANDS CAN TEACH OUR GARDENS, with KEVIN PHILIP WILLIAMS & MICHAEL GUIDI
Late July, August, and September (with the constellation Sirius high in the night sky) is perhaps the stretch of the year in most...


Jun 27, 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 13, 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 6, 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...


Mar 14, 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...


Feb 16, 2024
A LOVE STORY: BRENT LEGGS & THE AFRICAN AMERICAN CULTURAL HERITAGE ACTION FUND
This week a Valentine of sorts for the world of land and cultural care. In the midst of Black History Month, we’re in conversation this...


Feb 8, 2024
LIBRARY SCIENCE IS (GARDEN) LIFE SCIENCE, STACI CATRON & JENNIE OLDFIELD, CHEROKEE GARDEN LIBRARY, ATLANTA HISTORY CENTER
In our ongoing exploration of who gardeners are, where gardeners are, what they are growing in this world, and why that matters to all of...

Nov 16, 2023
GROW: with AWARD WINNING PLANTSMAN RIZ REYES, AUTHOR OF GROW: A FAMILY GUIDE TO PLANTS
r Riz Reyes is a horticulturalist whose career has deep roots in the Pacific Northwest. His work, however, taps into international...

Sep 14, 2023
THE HIGH LINE, with DIRECTOR OF HORTICULTURE, RICHARD HAYDEN
This week our second in a two part series on gardens and green spaces of New York City, getting us primed for The Garden Conservancy’s...


Aug 3, 2023
QUANTIFYING THE VALUE OF NATIVE PLANTS FOR GARDENS, SAM HOADLEY MT CUBA CENTER
Sam Hoadley is the Manager of Horticultural Research at the Mt. Cuba Center in Delaware, a remarkable botanic garden and conservation...


Jul 27, 2023
OLBRICH BOTANICAL GARDENS CENTERING PLANTS & PEOPLE OF MADISON, WI, with HORTICULTURIST ERIN PRESLEY
Erin Presley is the herb, woodland, and pond garden horticulturist at Olbrich Botanical Gardens, a 16-acre, free, public garden founded...

Jun 1, 2023
NORMALIZING NATIVE PLANT LANDSCAPE JOY w/ THE THEODORE PAYNE FOUNDATION
Welcome June! This week, the third and final-for-now conversation in our series on the state of seed for native ecosystem restoration...


May 12, 2023
JUST IN TIME FOR MOTHER'S DAY: BLOOM! DEB PRINZING, SLOW FLOWERS SOCIETY
We are now mid-May, half way through a month of graduations, spring celebrations and weddings, and Mother’s Day is upon us here in the US...
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