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...
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Jul 27, 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 20, 2023
COMING TO OUR SENSES, "WILDSCAPE," with NANCY LAWSON
The garden in summer is at its fullest sensory delight and overwhelm – the peak of sunlight, growing hours, heat, and growth, ripening...
Jul 13, 2023
THE BEAUTIFUL CHAOS OF GARDEN INSPIRED LIVING: OKLAHOMA-BASED LINDA VATER
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....
Jul 6, 2023
SUMMER GARDEN READING LIST: HEDGE, with NOVELIST JANE DELURY
Novelist Jane Delury describes herself as a fledgling (maybe seedling?) gardener after 8 years into gardening being part of her everyday...
Jun 29, 2023
GOOD CITIZENSHIP & RIGHT RELATIONSHIP: GOING BEYOND LAND ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS, REDBUD RESOURCE GROUP
This week before July is upon us and thoughts of what it means to be a citizen fill our minds, hearts, and collective messaging, I am so...
Jun 22, 2023
SOLSTICE SEASON: MARKING & MAKING MEANING, DAY SCHILDKRET of MORNING ALTARS
It’s a big week, the week of the Solstice, and here in the US the week of Juneteenth and National Pollinator Week. In our ongoing...
Jun 15, 2023
THE (CALIFORNIA) BUMBLE BEE ATLAS, LEIF RICHARDSON of XERCES SOCIETY
National Pollinator Week is an annual celebration since 2010 in support of pollinator health that was initiated and is managed by...
Jun 8, 2023
GARDEN FOR WILDLIFE, CELEBRATING 50 YEARS, with NATIONAL WILDLIFE FEDERATION's MARY PHILLIPS
No matter what you might call it – Rewilding, Wildscaping, Backyard Habitats, Acts of Restorative Kindness, Native plant habitat...
Jun 1, 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...
May 25, 2023
HIGH VALUE HABITAT: PAT REYNOLDS, HERITAGE GROWERS NATIVE SEEDS & PLANTS
Pat Reynolds is a restoration ecologist with more than 30 years of professional experience in the design, implementation and monitoring...
May 18, 2023
SEED STRATEGIES (FOR BIODIVERSITY SUPPORT) AT SCALE, with ANDREA WILLIAMS
As I write in my upcoming book, What We Sow, on the Personal, Ecological, and Cultural Significance of Seeds – seeds are to the plant...
May 12, 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 4, 2023
SOIL, THE STORY OF A BLACK MOTHER'S GARDEN w/ CAMILLE DUNGY
Camille Dungy is perhaps best known for her remarkable and award winning often environmentally focused poetry and editing of collections...
Apr 27, 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 20, 2023
EARTH DAY SPECIAL: WE ARE THE ARK, IRELAND'S MARY REYNOLDS
It is now Mid-April and this week we are celebrating both California Native Plant Week AND the week of Earth Day. Wildflowers are...
Apr 13, 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 6, 2023
PRAIRIE UP! BENJAMIN VOGT, MONARCH GARDENS
I know the adage goes that April showers bring May flowers, but based on images from across the Northern Hemisphere – from snow drops in...
Mar 30, 2023
WHY WOMEN GROW, ALICE VINCENT
Alice Vincent is a multi-platform storyteller, based in London, and examining with gusto and curiosity the intricacies of words and...
Mar 23, 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 16, 2023
THE SEED KEEPER(S), with DIANE WILSON (BEST OF)
IN honor of both seed sowing season and women’s history month – this week we revisit a favorite - focusing on seeding our imaginations in...
Mar 9, 2023
BRINGING BACK THE NATIVES TOUR, KATHY KRAMER
In a continuation of Women’s History Month series, and our ongoing exploration of who gardeners are, where gardeners are, and what they...
Mar 2, 2023
LOVING THE SURFACE OF THE EARTH: ORWELL'S ROSES, with REBECCA SOLNIT
Rebecca Solnit is a writer, historian, and activist. Her long bibliography epitomizes her wide ranging humanitarian interests – from...
Feb 23, 2023
ORCHARD: WINTER KEEPERS, COOKERS & CIDERS, with UK'S JAMES RICH
This last week of February, we return to our love of apples – and the warm comfort of eating and cooking with home grown ones, a...
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