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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...

Nov 21

ALL FLOURISHING IS MUTUAL: ROBIN WALL KIMMERER (BEST OF)

In this week's best of conversation, Dr. Robin Wall Kimmerer reminds us that All flourishing is mutual.

Oct 17

ALL THE WILD RHYTHMS: WILD PLANT CULTURE with JARED ROSENBAUM

Jared Rosenbaum is a botanist and Certified Ecological Restoration Practitioner with extensive experience in stewardship and monitoring...

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...

Sep 26

THE FIELD GUIDES AMONG US, DR. ALAN WEAKLEY, DIRECTOR, UNC CHAPEL HILL HERBARIUM

Dr. Alan Weakley is a career-long botanist and conservation biologist firmly rooted in the southeast region of the U.S. For a little...

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...

Aug 8

SHROUDED IN LIGHT, WHAT OUR NATIVE SHRUBLANDS CAN TEACH OUR GARDENS, with KEVIN PHILIP WILLIAMS & MICHAEL GUIDI

Late July, August, and September (with the constellation Sirius high in the night sky) is perhaps the stretch of the year in most...

Aug 1

THE BOTANICAL JOURNEY & LEXICON OF A CARING PLANTSPERSON, with TIM JOHNSON, NATIVE PLANT TRUST

Tim Johnson is engaged in the native plant and garden worlds on both personal and professional levels. Having worked with Seed Savers...

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...

Jul 4

GOOD CITIZENSHIP = GREAT STEWARDSHIP: NATIVE SEED/SEARCH, with ALEXANDRA ZAMECNIK

It’s the seedy time of summer. This week of the fourth of July we’re working from the premise that foundational to good citizenship is...

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 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 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

May 17

THE SEED DETECTIVE, with ADAM ALEXANDER

May 10

SMALL HOUSE FARM: BEAUTY & LEARNING WITH BEVIN COHEN

May 2

A YEAR FULL OF FLOWERS (IN POTS!) with UK'S SARAH RAVEN

Apr 25

THE BUMBLE BEE ATLAS PROJECTS, w/ LEIF RICHARDSON of XERCES SOCIETY

Following on from native plant week, this week we revisit a BEST OF conversation about some of our favorite native plant visitors: our...

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