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CURIOSITY IN THE FIELD OF DREAMS, PLANTSMAN ROY DIBLIK
Great gardens need great plants, and great plants people the world over, throughout history, have made it their lives’ calling to bring...
Apr 13, 2023
THE W.W. SEYMOUR BOTANICAL CONSERVATORY, TACOMA, WA, with PLANTSWOMAN TYRA SHENAURLT
As we come toward the finale of Women’s history month, this week we head Northwest - to Tacoma, Washington. Horticulturist/Plantswoman...
Mar 23, 2023
THE LOVE STORIES OF ABRA LEE, CONQUER THE SOIL & OAKLAND GARDEN CEMETERY, ATLANTA
Love is already a theme in the work of Cultivating Place, to be sure, but with last week’s loving work around the restoration of historic...
Feb 9, 2023
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
PROPORTIONALITY: THE NORTHEAST NATIVE PLANT PRIMER w/ ULI LORIMER
Photos courtesy of Uli Lorimer, The Native Plant Trust, all rights reserved - see full gallery at bottom of post. As we look to our fall...
Oct 6, 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
THE CIVIC GARDEN CENTER OF GREATER CINCINNATI (80 years and growing), KAREN KAHLE
The Civic Garden Center of Greater Cincinnati – 80 years of great growing, a conversation with Executive Director Karen Kahle (below is a...
Jul 14, 2022
PRESERVATION & TRANSFORMATION: SAN FRANCISCO'S GREENHOUSE PROJECT, w/ CAITLYN GALLOWAY
San Francisco Bay Area’s Greenhouse Project is a cultural and economic restoration garden project making use of what we have and growing...
Jul 7, 2022
LONG LIVE LOVE FOUNDATION & THEIR SERENITY HEALING GARDEN
This week we consider the idea of mental health and our gardens from an even more poignant perspective. In the wake of the recent Uvalde...
Jun 9, 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
EARTH DAY - PARKS FOR THE NATURE OF EVERYONE, OLMSTED200
In honor of Earth Day on April 22nd, this week Cultivating Place is in conversation about a person who committed their career to the...
Apr 21, 2022
THE HEIRLOOM GARDENER, JOHN FORTI
John Forti is an award-winning heirloom specialist, garden historian, ethnobotanist, garden writer, and local foods advocate. He is...
Mar 31, 2022
GARDENS BY & FOR REFUGEES: IRC's DENVER-BASE & REGENERATION NOW
This week, a timely and rich with agency conversation on gardens by and for refugee populations.Areti Athanasopoulos is a Denver,...
Mar 10, 2022
GARDEN HISTORY & HINDSIGHT, LONDON'S GARDEN MUSEUM with DIRECTOR CHRISTOPHER WOODWARD
Last week we looked at Gardens and History through the lens of an historic Garden Cemetery – this week we look at Garden History through...
Nov 4, 2021
GREEN & SACRED SPACE, MOUNT AUBURN CEMETERY, with DAVE BARNETT
Just in time for All Hallow’s Eve, Samhain, and Day of the Dead - this week we explore the green, sacred, and communal space of a...
Oct 28, 2021
RHYTHMS OF THE UNIVERSE: SUMMER CONCERT SERIES IN THE CAPRADIO GARDEN AT SACRAMENTO STATE
This week we celebrate (and say farewell) to the fullness of summer at its calendar-end with Labor Day weekend in full view here in the...
Sep 2, 2021
INNOVATE & INTEGRATE: BROOKLYN BRIDGE PARK, with REBECCA MCMACKIN
In our final episode focusing on gardens that are dedicated to being ecologically rich and contributing back to the places in which they...
Aug 26, 2021
THE LAND BEYOND THE TREES, THE BETTY FORD ALPINE GARDENS - VAIL,CO
This week we continue our high elevation garden lens in Vail, Colorado at The Betty Ford Alpine Gardens, leaders in the research and...
Aug 5, 2021
LUNAR NEW YEAR, with TAWAINESE AMERICAN PLANTSMAN ERIC HSU
In honor of Lunar New Year which begins with the new moon on February 12th and lasts until the next full moon arrives at the end of the...
Feb 11, 2021
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