Art of the Garden/Botanical Art

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THE KING OF CAMELLIAS, SIDNEY FRAZIER OF MIDDLETON PLACE, CHARLESTON, SC

This week, CP Guest Host Abra Lee celebrates the season in conversation with the King of Camellias, Sidney Frazier . Sidney is based out...

Dec 12

ARBOREAL OBSESSION & GROWING THE WORLD: THE TREE COLLECTORS, with AMY STEWART

Many gardeners are also collectors. Collectors of things like pots, books, seeds, and of course plants. Some collect flowers, or herbs,...

Nov 28

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...

Oct 24

THE POETIC GARDEN LEGACY OF THE HARLEM RENAISSANCE'S EFFIE LEE NEWSOME with REVEREND JERRI MITCHELL-LEE

This week, Cultivating Place Guest Host Abra Lee is in conversation with Reverend Jerri Mitchell-Lee. They enjoy a deep dive into the...

Oct 10

CP LIVE with GOLDEN STATE LINEN (FORMERLY KNOWN AS CHICO FLAX)

This week we’re so excited to air the first listen to one of our CP LIVE conversations, recorded live in front of an audience on the home...

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...

Jul 11

TREES ARE BRIDGES TO THE SKY: A POETRY OF PLACE & PEACE, FREDERICK LIVINGSTON

“Are humans parasites sowing our own hunger, or fruit, gifts from Earth to our future, is the edge of our lives, civilization, and...

Jun 20

SUMMER SOLSTICE SPECIAL: STILL, with MARY JO HOFFMAN

Happy Summer Solstice! In celebration of the planetary moment of the longest day and the shortest night of the year in the Northern...

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...

Feb 8

LIBRARY SCIENCE IS (GARDEN) LIFE SCIENCE, STACI CATRON & JENNIE OLDFIELD, CHEROKEE GARDEN LIBRARY, ATLANTA HISTORY CENTER

In our ongoing exploration of who gardeners are, where gardeners are, what they are growing in this world, and why that matters to all of...

Jan 11

REIMAGINING MAY SARTON'S HOUSE (& GARDEN) BY THE SEA, with ARTIST/GARDENER CARLY GLOVINSKI

This week on Cultivating Place we hear the magical story of how two women, separated by time, came together to grow all of our...

Jan 4

WELCOMING WHIMSY, WONDER & THE WORK OF INTIMACY: ESME CABRERA, NATURALIST/ARTIST, LA MAMIGAMI

Esme Cabrera is an artist, a naturalist, and a born educator. Under the Instagram name “la-mamigami", Esme experiments, shares,...

Dec 21, 2023

SOLSTICE SPECIAL: THE GARDEN NEXT DOOR, with COLLIN PINE

Collin Pine is an avid gardener, as well as an educator and writer. His first book is a work of garden-based children’s literature, The...

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...

Nov 9, 2023

JOY TAKES ROOT & THE LIGHT SHE FEELS INSIDE with GWENDOLYN WALLACE

Gwendolyn Wallace is a gardener, a scholar, a perennial student, a teacher, a historian, and the author of two new works of illustrated...

Oct 26, 2023

FLORA & FORAGE, and THE SECRET STORIES OF WILDFLOWERS, BLUE RIDGE BOTANIC's NINA VETETO

This week we continue our artistic autumnal theme in conversation with Nina Veteto a plantswoman, conservationist, artist, and expert...

Oct 12, 2023

STAR-GAZING, YARD-SHARING, IMAGINATION & COMMUNITY ACTIVATING, OLLY COSTELLO DRAWS US TOGETHER

This week on Cultivating Place we return to the artistry and also the activism of our plant loving and garden growing lives in...

Sep 28, 2023

FROM JOYFUL PARTICIPATION IN A WORLD OF SORROWS TO COSMOSIS, ARTIST LIBBY ELLIS

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

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...

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....

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