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THE HIDDEN HISTORIES OF GARDEN LEGACIES, with ROSE VINCENT, RESOURCE LIBRARIAN NYBG
This week on Cultivating Place , in honor of this first week of Autumn, and the idea of passing time, looking back, and the importance of...
Sep 25, 2025


THE ADVENTUROUS ART OF CULTIVATING PLACE, with PEG & AWL
This week on Cultivating Place , we lean into The Art of CP, exploring how the act of Cultivating Place is artful, and how the creative...
Sep 18, 2025


GREAT GREEN HEIGHTS: CINCINNATI'S GREEN ROOFS AND ROOFTOP GARDENS with ROSE HENRY SEEGER
In 2008, Cincinnati, Ohio, AKA the Queen City, developed the program that has earned them their secondary nickname: Green City. The Green...
Sep 11, 2025


ROOTED IN THE FUTURE: CULTIVATING THE NEXT GENERATION OF HORTICULTURE, JAZMIN ALBARRAN
This week on Cultivating Place , host Abra Lee dives into the world of pathways to plant professions with Jazmin Albarran, Executive...
Aug 28, 2025


COMING TO OUR SENSES, "WILDSCAPE," with NANCY LAWSON (BEST OF)
The garden in summer is at its fullest sensory delight and overwhelm – the peak of sunlight, growing hours, heat, and growth, ripening...
Jul 24, 2025


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


MIDSUMMER'S NIGHT MAGIC, with LEIGH ANN HENION
Have you ever heard of a Moth-er? Yes, it is the moth equivalent of a birder–someone who loves and follows and studies the incredible...
Jun 19, 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


GROWING IN THE RIGHT DIRECTION: HUMBLE ROOTS NURSERY & THE PACIFIC NORTHWEST NATIVE PLANT PRIMER (BEST OF)
Happy May Day! This week on Cultivating Place, we welcome May, with all of her floral and plant profusion, revisiting a conversation we...
May 1, 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


LOVE LETTER TO A GARDEN, DEBBIE MILLMAN OF DESIGN MATTERS
22 Debbie Millman has written love letters before. Her 20 years creating and hosting the popular podcast Design Matters is just one...
Apr 10, 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


LIFE IS BIG: TO BE A POET GARDENER, TESS TAYLOR
Tess Taylor is a self-described Poet Gardener – and if there is ever a season to feel the poetry of life in the garden and with the...
Mar 13, 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
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