LONGWOOD REIMAGINED, with CEO AND PUBLIC GARDEN LEADER, PAUL REDMAN
This week, when many in the US have time off with family and friends, we note our gratitude for our many teachers: the plants and the...
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Nov 14
EXPLORING THE FRONTIERS OF GARDEN DESIGN with THE NEW PERENNIALIST, TONY SPENCER OF ONTARIO, CANADA
In our ongoing exploration of who gardeners are, where gardeners are, and all that they are growing in this world, this week in...
Oct 3
KISS MY ASTER's ASTER GARDENS, with AMANDA THOMSEN
This week we’re joined by Amanda Thomsen, owner of Aster Gardens , a bespoke, sensory, and haunted plant shop in the small, Midwestern...
Sep 5
GARDENS IN SPACES OF INCARCERATION, with CULTURAL GEOGRAPHER DR. ELIZABETH LARA
This week, in honor of Labor Day just passed, we venture into the world of garden preservation and history through the lens of spaces of...
Aug 15
BACK TO SCHOOL - WITH PLANTS: SEAN DOHERTY, VP OF EDUCATION, MISSOURI BOTANICAL GARDEN
(IMAGES: top MOBOT Orangery.JJEWELL; MOBOT in spring with sculpture.JJEWELL; Sean, Daria McKelvey, Supervisor - Home Gardening...
Jun 27
NATIONAL POLLINATOR WEEK with THE POLLINATOR POSSE, TORA ROCHA
It’s full summer, for us and for the fauna of the Northern Hemisphere. That means many of our most charismatic, sun-loving pollinators...
Jun 13
IN HONOR OF JUNETEENTH: THE ANNE SPENCER HOUSE & GARDEN MUSEUM, with SHAUN SPENCER-HESTER
In honor of Juneteenth celebrations coming up, we check in on the Anne Spencer House & Garden in Lynchburg, VA. The home and garden of...
Jun 6
A GARDEN'S PURPOSE, with ECOLOGICAL DESIGNER FELIX DE ROSEN
Cultivating our places with attention, intention, thought, and care is certainly an ethos I hold dear and advocate for with some measure...
May 30
REWARDING GREAT DESIGN: DESIGN FUTURIST AWARDS, with SARAH BECK, PACIFIC HORTICULTURE
With the Chelsea Flower Show in the UK just completed, the gardening world as a whole has the concept of Garden Design awards and...
May 24
MILKWOOD PERMACULTURE - HABITS FOR HOPE IN A CHANGING WORLD, with KIRSTEN BRADLEY
ALL PHOTOS courtesy of Milkwood, all rights reserved. This week on Cultivating Place we’re in conversation with Kirsten Bradley,...
May 2
A YEAR FULL OF FLOWERS (IN POTS!) with UK'S SARAH RAVEN
ALL PHOTOS by Jonathan Buckley, all rights reserved. "Pots in the garden are like bubble in a glass of champagne." -Sarah Raven Sarah...
Mar 28
WOMEN'S HISTORY MONTH FINALE: GARDEN WONDERLAND, WITH LESLIE BENNETT
To round out Women’s History Month in style, this week we are back in conversation with Leslie Bennett, Oakland, CA based landscape...
Mar 21
SPRING EQUINOX SPECIAL: OWEN WORMSER OF ABOUND DESIGN & "LAWNS INTO MEADOWS"
The Great Unlawning of America has been underway for some time now. As we have just crossed the threshold of the spring equinox earlier...
Mar 14
THE ART OF GARDENS + SCULPTURE: MEIJER GARDENS & SCULPTURE PARK STEVE LAWARRE, GRAND RAPIDS, MI
The combining of sculpture and gardens dates back centuries if not millennia, and there are few public gardens I know of that do not...
Mar 7
WOMEN'S HISTORY MONTH: THE QUEEN OF HERBS, JEKKA MCVICAR
Happy Women’s History Month! To kick Women’s History Month off on Cultivating Place, this week we visit with the woman known as the Queen...
Dec 28, 2023
THINKING LIKE A HEALTHY HABITAT (RADICALLY & RADIALLY), with SID HILL, ECOLOGICAL LAND ARTISAN
We opened up 2023 here on Cultivating Place focusing on biodiversity, and we close the year similarly, with diverse plant...
Nov 30, 2023
SUPER BLOOM: A CONVERSATION WITH AUSTRALIAN PLANT PRACTITIONER JAC SEMMLER
Jac Semmler is a plant practitioner, a multi-disciplinary, creative, high skilled horticulturist, and the human behind an epic new book...
Nov 16, 2023
GROW: with AWARD WINNING PLANTSMAN RIZ REYES, AUTHOR OF GROW: A FAMILY GUIDE TO PLANTS
r Riz Reyes is a horticulturalist whose career has deep roots in the Pacific Northwest. His work, however, taps into international...
Sep 14, 2023
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 1, 2023
BACK TO SCHOOL: DANCING IN THE DRAGON'S JAW DESIGN STUDIO, UNIV OF TN, with CHAD MANLEY & STUDENTS
Chad Manley is a fellow and lecturer in the school of Landscape Architecture at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. Nora Jacobs and...
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