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THE NATURE PLACE–LA CROSSE, WI, with REBECCA SCHWARZ & PAIGE MANGES
This week we’re getting back to nature for summer camp: ALL ages invited. We’re in conversation with Rebecca Schwarz and Paige Manges of...
Jul 17, 2025
GLOBAL GARDEN ADVENTURER, PLANTSWOMAN LUCIE WILLAN
This week on Cultivating Place you are in for a real summer adventure on a global garden armchair tour of sorts with a plantswoman who...
Jul 10, 2025
JULY 4TH SPECIAL—GREAT EXPECTATIONS: CP LIVE with BEN FUTA OF BOTANY & CO SOUTH BEND, IN
THIS WEEK on CP - OUR NEXT CP LIVE podcast! And we head to Indiana with our very own Ben Futa! Botany & Co. in South Bend, Indiana is...
Jul 3, 2025
ROOTED IN EDUCATION, RICHARD M. SMITH, DIRECTOR, NYBG SCHOOL OF PROFESSIONAL HORTICULTURE
This week on Cultivating Place , guest host Abra Lee is joined in conversation by someone whose path into horticulture is both surprising...
Jun 26, 2025
GETTING TO KNOW OUR NEIGHBORS: PREPARING FOR POLLINATOR WEEK with COLORADO'S PPAN
Every year since 2007 when the US Senate passed sanctions declaring it, the third week of June is celebrated as National Pollinator Week....
Jun 12, 2025
NUTRITIOUS MOVEMENT & THE GARDENER, with KATY BOWMAN
Summer makes it easy to move your body – to get out for a walk, to work in the garden, to hike, bike, stroll, boat, climb, swim, dance...
May 29, 2025
RAISED BEDS, RAISED VOICES: ABRA LEE IN CONVERSATION WITH PHILADELPHIA'S GUINA HAMMOND
Guina Hammond is the Pennsylvania Horticultural Society's Program Manager of Public Gardens and Landscapes. She is also deeply involved...
May 22, 2025
THAT GREEN THING INSIDE US ALL, JILL MAYS ON NURTURING NATURE, GARDENING FOR SPECIAL NEEDS
Sensory and accessible gardens; children enjoying nurturing nature, photo by Francie Randolph all rights reserved. As the summer...
May 15, 2025
A BEAUTIFUL JOURNEY, PLANTSWOMAN HOLLY SHIMIZU, EMERITUS DIRECTOR US BOTANIC GARDEN
This second week of May, we welcome gardener and plantswoman Holly Shimizu, whose four decades of work in some of America’s notable...
May 8, 2025
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
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