Gardening

After several years of developing gardening programs in her now-home town of Truro, MA, Jill Mays has documented the journey of her work, research, and garden program designs for a wide range of special needs in her new book: Nurturing Nature, A Guide to Gardening for Special Needs.

This second week of May, we welcome gardener and plantswoman Holly Shimizu. Her four decades of work in some of America’s notable public gardens have tracked and traced some of the most impactful changes in public garden standards, expectations, and accountability in that same time frame.

This week on Cultivating Place we welcome May, with all of her floral and plant profusion, revisiting a conversation we loved with Kristin Currin and Andrew Merritt of Humble Roots Nursery in Oregon’s Columbia River Gorge.

This Earth Day week, we’re celebrating Juliet Sargeant's design background and digging into her new book “Start With Soil: Simple Steps for a Thriving Garden,” which publishes on May 1st from Frances Lincoln. Enjoy!

John Stempien is the emeritus director of the Liberty Hyde Bailey Museum in South Haven, Michigan. He joins us today to share more about his garden life.

Award-winning artist, designer, and the host of the podcast Design Matters, Debbie Millman details falling in love with gardening in her latest work, Love Letter to a Garden.

You might remember Cultivating Place's first conversation with Iowa-based plantsman, Kelly D. Norris, back in 2021, in celebration of his book New Naturalism, designing and planting a resilient, ecologically vibrant home garden. We’re so pleased to have him back in conversation with CP Guest Host Ben Futa this week.

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.

The Spring Equinox welcomes Brooke Williams. He's a writer, naturalist, amateur conservation ecologist, thinker, and walker. Based in the Great Salt Lake region of Utah with his wife, acclaimed writer Terry Tempest Williams, Brooke writes about evolution, consciousness, and his adventures exploring our world's inner and outer wilderness.

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!