As we move toward October, the first in what will be a few intermittent episodes across fall and winter reminding us of the artistry...

Erin Presley is the herb, woodland, and pond garden horticulturist at Olbrich Botanical Gardens, a 16-acre, free, public garden founded...

The garden in summer is at its fullest sensory delight and overwhelm – the peak of sunlight, growing hours, heat, and growth, ripening...

The garden in summer is what we all dream of: some down time, some play time, fresh flavors, fragrances, and of course, flowers and fun....

As I write in my upcoming book, What We Sow, on the Personal, Ecological, and Cultural Significance of Seeds – seeds are to the plant...

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...

Camille Dungy is perhaps best known for her remarkable and award winning often environmentally focused poetry and editing of collections...

This last week of April, an "art of the garden" conversation with artist, historian, gardener and environmental advocate Rebecca Allan....

It is now Mid-April and this week we are celebrating both California Native Plant Week AND the week of Earth Day. Wildflowers are...

Alice Vincent is a multi-platform storyteller, based in London, and examining with gusto and curiosity the intricacies of words and...

As we come toward the finale of Women’s history month, this week we head Northwest - to Tacoma, Washington. Horticulturist/Plantswoman...

IN honor of both seed sowing season and women’s history month – this week we revisit a favorite - focusing on seeding our imaginations in...

In a continuation of Women’s History Month series, and our ongoing exploration of who gardeners are, where gardeners are, and what they...

Now more than halfway from the winter solstice to the spring equinox, many of us have seeds of spring and summer foods on our minds (and...

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...

Seen in overview, the 30 x 30 conservation efforts at federal and state levels are tremendous, but as the last two weeks’ conversations...

Welcome 2023! This week Cultivating Place kicks off a multi-part series devoted to the international, national, and statewide and local...

In the garden, we are "kneeling between the scale of seeds and the scale of stars...." - Maria Popova This week, a pre-Solstice offering...

This week – we visit and learn from gardeners-past as we look to the future in conversation with Judith Tankard, a landscape historian,...

Kier Holmes is a garden designer and writer regularly contributing to the likes of Martha Stewart, Better Homes & Gardens, Gardenista,...