As we enter the season of seed saving, of easing into dormancy and beginning to consider next season, forward planning, this week we...

In our second episode focusing on the inspiring beauty of dry gardens and the plants and people who love them, we’re joined this week by...

Native evening primrose greeting the Autumnal Equinox sunrise, somewhere near Cathedral Valley, UT Ingathering – I like this word – its...

As we near the close of a dry, dry season in the generally dry climates of much of the US West, this week Cultivating Place has the first...

Ernesto Alvarado is a Mexican-born, Southern-California based native plant and seed teacher and student. He is currently the Native Plant...

September, October, and November are traditional harvest celebration months in the Northern Hemisphere from variations on Octoberfests to...

As we tend toward the Autumnal Equinox on September 22nd here in the Northern Hemisphere, we enter a period of time full of sacred...

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...

In our final episode focusing on gardens that are dedicated to being ecologically rich and contributing back to the places in which they...

At a time when our gardens large or small often feel more important than ever, I think our focus on exactly what our gardens contain and...

Many gardeners will remember with delight reading Gaia’s Garden by author and activist Toby Hemenway, originally published in 2001. Toby...

One entrance to the Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Garden, Bar Harbor, Maine In the long hot, dry, summer, often accentuated by the acute...

This week we continue our high elevation garden lens in Vail, Colorado at The Betty Ford Alpine Gardens, leaders in the research and...

This week on Cultivating Place we gain a little perspective with a lot of altitude as we begin a two-part series on Gardening at...

Hannah Gardner is a gardener, writer, and mother – she is a garden designer and plantswoman with a passion for traveling the world to...

David Godshall is a landscape architect, gardener and meta garden philosopher making his way with his young family and his Terremoto LA...

Bonnie J. Clark is a professor of anthropology at the University of Denver. Her new book Finding Solace in the Soil, Archaeology of...

Ali Meders-Knight is a Mechoopda Tribal member whose traditional and present homelands are based in interior Northern California. A...

At a time in the gardening world when we're hearing the phrase "ecologically functional gardens" and "ecological landscape design" with...

Jessica Walliser is an avid gardener and professional horticulturist – working in the business of plants and gardening since the tender...

Claire Bowen is the woman behind Honeysuckle & Hilda: a florist who likes to write and her two little dogs. Based in Oxfordshire, in a...

Lizard flower-surfing the Thyme pots. It has been very hot here, and when you look at the weather forecast in the morning it is prefaced...

Debra Prinzing is the founder and leader of The Slow Flowers Society – She joins us in this first week of summer (after Memorial Day and...

Just outside of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania a team of plant folks known as Refugia is growing connection among places and people from...