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FOR THE LOVE OF SOIL, START WITH SOIL: JULIET SARGEANT
Juliet Sargeant is an award-winning English garden designer who blends beauty with purpose in every space she creates. Juliet’s unique...
Apr 24, 2025
THE HOLY EARTH & THE NATURE STUDY IDEA, JOHN STEMPIEN ON THE LEGACY OF LIBERTY HYDE BAILEY
For many religions, Spring is a sacred season of renewal and regeneration. I feel it, don’t you? With this in mind, I am so pleased to...
Apr 17, 2025
THE VIBRANT NEW NATURAL GARDENING OF KELLY D. NORRIS
You might remember Cultivating Place's first conversation with Iowa-based plantsman, Kelly D. Norris, back in 2021, in celebration of...
Apr 3, 2025
ROAD TO REINVENTION: FROM BANKER TO PUBLIC HORTICULTURE IDEA LEADER, MAE LIN PLUMMER
This week, guest host Abra Lee is chatting with Mae Lin Plummer, Director, IDEA Center for Public Gardens at the Denver Botanic Gardens...
Mar 27, 2025
THE CURIOUS DR. MARGARET FUNK, FLORA & FROST
This week, we’re joined by Margaret Funk, the curious gardener —and doctor— behind the Instagram handle Flora & Frost . This lovely...
Mar 6, 2025
FROM EAST AFRICA TO THE WORLD, LANDSCAPE DESIGNER WAMBUI IPPOLITO
This week, in continuing celebration of Black History Month and looking forward to Women’s History month, CP Guest Host Abra Lee is in...
Feb 27, 2025
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, 2025
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, 2025
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, 2025
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
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...
Dec 5, 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
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...
Sep 26, 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
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...
Aug 8, 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
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
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 15, 2024
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