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2025-03-27

  Transformational: From banker to trailblazing IDEA leader in public horticulture, Mae Lin Plummer

This week on Cultivating Place, guest host Abra Lee is in conversation with a horticultural leader with big IDEAs. Mae Lin Plummer is the Director of the IDEA Center for Public Gardens in Denver Colorado. Mae Lin’s journey into gardening started in he...
  Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place author
2025-03-20

  Spring Equinox Special - Practicing re-enchantment: Encountering Dragonflies with Brooke Williams

Happy Spring Equinox! To welcome Spring – especially this exact Spring in the US - practicing re-enchantment in our world seemed exactly the right focus. I think this is part of what Gardeners do: practice enchantment or love with the natural world we...
  Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place author
2025-03-13

  Life is Big: To Be A Poet Gardener, Tess Taylor

Tess Taylor is a self-described Poet Gardener – and if there is ever a season to feel the poetry of life in the garden and with the plants in every cell of your body, it’s springtime! An award-winning poet with many collection titles to her name and ed...
  Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place author
2025-03-05

  The Curious Dr. Margaret Funk, Flora & Frost

Dr. Margaret Funk is the curious Midwest gardener (and doctor) behind the online name Flora & Frost. Cultivating her Minnesota garden for years, like so many of us, she really dove in deep in 2020. She and her family have now converted most of th...
  Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place author
2025-02-27

  From East Africa to the World, landscape design's Wambui Ippolito

From East Africa to the World, landscape design's Wambui Ippolito by Jennifer Jewell
  Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place author
2025-02-20

  Portrait of A Black Woman in Her Garden: Leslie Bennett, Pine House Edible Gardens & Black Sanctuary Gardens

In celebration of Black History Month and looking forward to Women’s History Month - this week we’re so pleased to air another of our CP LIVE: Dialogues to Grow By conversations, recorded live in front of an audience on the home ground of the Cultivato...
  Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place author
2025-02-12

  The Curiosity Driven Growing Life of Australia's Michael McCoy

Many things motivate and drive us to love gardening, plants, and nature. Australia’s Michael McCoy, also known as The Gardenist, is a Gardener, botanist, designer, teacher, and international garden tour guide. In his garden life, motivation always co...
  Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place author
2025-02-06

  The Power of Public Green Spaces: NY's Elizabeth Street Garden with Joseph Reiver

The Elizabeth Street Garden in New York City’s Little Italy and SoHo neighborhoods is a one-acre public garden founded in 1991 by Allan Reiver, an artist and art dealer who passed in 2021. The lot on which the garden has grown these many years is owned...
  Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place author
2025-01-29

  Creativity, Self-Knowledge, and Artistic Ingenuity: Passionflower Sue

Creativity is one of those anchors-to-windward in unsettled and worrisome times. So is a hands-on, creative project – with bonus points for working with organic materials (natural fibers, clay, or – flowers)! Just in time for Valentine’s Day, and all ...
  Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place author
2025-01-23

  Got Topiary? A conversation with plantsman/artist Mike Gibson

This week, Guest host Abra Lee is in conversation with legendary topiary artist and star of the HGTV hit show Clipped, Mike ‘Gibby-Siz’ Gibson. Mike is based out of sunny Columbia, South Carolina, where he owns and operates his own business, “Gibson Wo...
  Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place author