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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...
Sep 14, 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...
Aug 3, 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...
Jul 27, 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...
Jun 1, 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...
May 11, 2023


CULTIVATING EDEN, with REBECCA ALLAN
This last week of April, an "art of the garden" conversation with artist, historian, gardener and environmental advocate Rebecca Allan....
Apr 27, 2023


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
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